Acting

Christopher Riordan

Born November 25, 1938 · Redwood City, California, USA (age 87)

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Known For

A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

The Great Race · 1965

The Great Race

★ 7.11965

MovieComedyAdventure

Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate's own invention.

Von Ryan's Express · 1965

Von Ryan's Express

★ 7.11965

MovieWarAction

Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding.

The Cincinnati Kid · 1965

The Cincinnati Kid

★ 7.01965

MovieDrama

An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.

Fantastic Voyage · 1966

Fantastic Voyage

★ 6.71966

MovieScience FictionAdventure

In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.

The Glass Bottom Boat · 1966

The Glass Bottom Boat

★ 6.31966

MovieComedyRomance

Bruce, the owner of an aerospace company, is infatuated with Jennifer and hires her to be his biographer so that he can be near her and win her affections. Is she actually a Russian spy trying to obtain aerospace secrets?

The plot of his illegitimate son Mordred to gain the throne, and Guinevere's growing attachment to Sir Lancelot, threatens to topple King Arthur and destroy his "round table" of knights.

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A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

Suitor at Ball (uncredited)

The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

Jury Foreman

The Great Race · 1965

The Great Race

★ 7.11965

MovieComedyAdventure

Cowboy / Dancer (uncredited)

Von Ryan's Express · 1965

Von Ryan's Express

★ 7.11965

MovieWarAction

Prisoner of War (uncredited)

The Cincinnati Kid · 1965

The Cincinnati Kid

★ 7.01965

MovieDrama

An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.

Railroad Worker (uncredited)

Fantastic Voyage · 1966

Fantastic Voyage

★ 6.71966

MovieScience FictionAdventure

In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.

Young Scientist (uncredited)

The Glass Bottom Boat · 1966

The Glass Bottom Boat

★ 6.31966

MovieComedyRomance

Party Guest / Computer Plant Worker (uncredited)

The plot of his illegitimate son Mordred to gain the throne, and Guinevere's growing attachment to Sir Lancelot, threatens to topple King Arthur and destroy his "round table" of knights.

Serf at Execution (uncredited)

Viva Las Vegas · 1964

Viva Las Vegas

★ 6.11964

MovieMusicRomance

Lucky Jackson arrives in Las Vegas with his car literally in tow ready for the first Grand Prix — once he has the money for an engine. He gets the cash easily enough but mislays it when the pretty pool manageress takes his mind off things. It seems he'll lose both race and girl, problems complicated by rivalry from womanizing fellow racer Elmo Mancini.

Dancer (uncredited)

Fate Is the Hunter · 1964

Fate Is the Hunter

★ 6.51964

MovieDrama

An airline executive refuses to believe that pilot error, by his friend, caused a fatal crash and persists in looking for another reason.

Soldier in Audience (uncredited)

The heir to an oil fortune trades places with a water-ski instructor at a Florida hotel to see if girls will like him for himself, rather than his father's money.

Beach Boy (uncredited)

Countdown · 1967

Countdown

★ 5.81967

MovieScience FictionThriller

Desperate to land a man on the moon before Russia does, NASA hastily preps a would-be spaceman for a mission that would leave him alone in a lunar shelter for a year.

Employee (uncredited)

I'll Take Sweden · 1965

I'll Take Sweden

★ 5.21965

MovieComedyMusic

Bob Holcomb will do anything to stop his daughter JoJo from tying the knot with her lazy boyfriend, even move her all the way to Sweden! But once they're "safely" out of the country, JoJo falls for a sly Swedish playboy.

Student on Beach

Raintree County · 1957

Raintree County

★ 6.41957

MovieRomanceDrama

In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further complicated by the American Civil War, and dark family history.

Spectator at Footrace (uncredited)

Somebody Up There Likes Me · 1956

Somebody Up There Likes Me

★ 7.21956

MovieDrama

The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.

Rocky's Friend (uncredited)

When Penelope gets married to banker James Elcott, she finds him too preoccupied with work to pay much attention to her, so she robs his bank in disguise. After she confesses to her psychiatrist, Greg Mannix, he offers to return the money for her, as he is secretly in love with her. However, he abandons the money when the police approach. Penelope becomes determined to admit to the crime, but neither James nor the police believe her story.

Bank Customer (uncredited)

How to Stuff a Wild Bikini · 1965

How to Stuff a Wild Bikini

★ 5.31965

MovieComedyMusic

When he's stationed in Tahiti, a sailor hires a witch doctor to keep an eye on his girlfriend.

Beach Boy (uncredited)

Looking for Love · 1964

Looking for Love

★ 5.81964

MovieComedyRomance

An aspiring young singer unexpectedly gets her big break by inventing a specialized clothes rack.

Specialty Dancer (uncredited)

A young, millionaire rock promoter creates a new boy/girl team for his teen TV dance show. Will the ambitious go-go dancer and has-been pop star fall in love for real?

Student

The Gay Deceivers · 1969

The Gay Deceivers

★ 5.41969

MovieComedy

Two men try to avoid military service by pretending to be gay, but they must act the part when the recruiting officer doesn't buy it.

Duane

The Girls on the Beach · 1965

The Girls on the Beach

★ 4.41965

MovieComedyMusic

The girls of Alpha Beta need to raise $10,000 in two weeks to save the sorority house. Among their schemes to raise the funds are a beauty contest, a newspaper puzzle, and a baking contest. But when three guys hit the beach with love on their minds, bragging that they know the Beatles, the girls plan a concert with the Fab Four as the main attraction.

Surfer

The D.A.: Murder One · 1969

The D.A.: Murder One

★ 8.01969

MovieCrimeDrama

A Deputy District Attorney suspects that a nurse has been murdering her rich husbands and relatives by giving them unneeded insulin doses, but his superiors don't believe him.

Ricky

Two college boys from SoCal attend a spring break vacation at a ski lodge in Idaho to get insider tips on how the president of the ski club manages to attract so many girls as a way to make amends to their girlfriends. Alongside this relatively simple endeavor are ice-skating polar bears, love triangles, musical numbers, and quick-switching in and out of drag to achieve the goal of discovering what went wrong in the boys' romantic lives.

Skier (uncredited)

The Wild Weird World of Dr. Goldfoot · 1965

The Wild Weird World of Dr. Goldfoot

★ 7.01965

MovieComedyScience Fiction

Dr. Goldfoot schemes to use his Bikini Machine to kidnap a young man with infinite information stored in his head by the government.

Choreographer

Brooklyn Nine-Nine · 2013

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

★ 8.22013

SeriesComedyCrime

A single-camera ensemble comedy following the lives of an eclectic group of detectives in a New York precinct, including one slacker who is forced to shape up when he gets a new boss.

High Five Mourner (uncredited)

The Andy Griffith Show · 1960

The Andy Griffith Show

★ 7.61960

SeriesComedyFamily

Andy Taylor is the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life.

Ronnie

Get Smart · 1965

Get Smart

★ 8.01965

SeriesComedySci-Fi & Fantasy

Maxwell Smart, a hilariously inept and maladroit secret agent for CONTROL, battles the nefarious—though equally incompetent—KAOS.

Party Guest (uncredited)

A hilarious workplace comedy about a unique family of employees at a super-sized mega store. From the bright-eyed newbies and the seen-it-all veterans to the clueless summer hires and the in-it-for-life managers, together they hilariously tackle the day-to-day grind of rabid bargain hunters, riot-causing sales and nap-worthy training sessions.

Chris

Hogan's Heroes · 1965

Hogan's Heroes

★ 7.51965

SeriesWar & PoliticsComedy

From a German prisoner of war camp during World War II, Colonel Robert E. Hogan coordinates an international crew of Allied prisoners running a Special Operations group.

Soldier (uncredited)

The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.

Young Doctor (uncredited)

Wannabe writer Betty Suarez is a plain girl from Queens, who is smart, hardworking and savvy but lacks a fashionable sense of style. When publishing mogul Bradford Meade puts his son Daniel in charge of Mode magazine, he hires Betty to be Daniel's new assistant -- mostly because he knows that she may be the only woman in Manhattan with whom the younger man won't sleep.

Collector

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet · 1952

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet

★ 6.21952

SeriesComedyFamily

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet is an American sitcom, airing on ABC from October 3, 1952 through March 26, 1966, starring the real life Nelson family. After a long run on radio, the show was brought to television where it continued its success, running on both radio and television for a few years. The series stars Ozzie Nelson and his wife, singer Harriet Nelson, and their young sons, David and Eric "Ricky" Nelson. Don DeFore had a recurring role as the Nelsons' friendly neighbor "Thorny".

Ronnie (uncredited)

Run for Your Life · 1965

Run for Your Life

★ 7.11965

SeriesDrama

Run for Your Life is an American television drama series starring Ben Gazzara as a man with only a short time to live. It ran on NBC from 1965 to 1968. The series was created by Roy Huggins, who had previously explored the "man on the move" concept with The Fugitive.

Micky, Mike, Peter, and Davy are four young men in mid-1960s LA, members of a struggling country-folk-rock band looking for their big break amid madcap encounters with a variety of people straight out of TV and movie central casting, with full knowledge that their existence is part of a weekly television series.

Dancing Smoothie (uncredited)

12 O'Clock High · 1964

12 O'Clock High

★ 7.21964

SeriesDramaWar & Politics

This series chronicles the adventures--in the air and on the ground--of the men of the 918th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force. First commanded by irascible General Frank Savage--and later by Colonel Joe Gallagher, the son of a Pentagon General--the Group is stationed in England, and flies long-range bombing missions into German-held Europe.

Soldier (uncredited)

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. · 1964

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

★ 7.21964

SeriesAction & AdventureComedy

Agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin work for a secret intelligence service working under the auspices of the U.N. Their immediate superior is Mr. Waverly. Together they operate out of a secret base beneath the streets of New York City, and accesses through several cover business such as Del Floria's Tailor Shop and the Masque Club. This secret intelligence service is called U.N.C.L.E. United Network Command for Law and Enforcement.

One of Hubris' Men (uncredited)