David R. Ellis's biography
David R. Ellis is 61 years old actor born at Santa Monica. He was born on Monday 8th of September 1952. According to year of birth 1952 he belongs to Boomers. Birthday on 8th of September means he is Virgo. Virgo is an earthy sign of Zodiac Belt. People born under this Rising Sign are practical in nature. They believe in reality and represents themselves as a strong person.
He is native english speaker. He is citizen of United States of America. His primary profession is to be actor. You can know him also as film director, screenwriter. He is recently known as stunt performer.
David R. Ellis's career
His main focus is to be actor.
How did David R. Ellis die
He died on on Monday 7th of January 2013 when he was 61 years old at Johannesburg. David R. Elliss death was caused by undisclosed.
David R. Ellis's quotes
- Waterworld was the best time of my life. It was physically demanding, but it was fun. I mean, you're in Hawaii for nine months shooting on the water every day.
- Well, I think on second units it's all about execution. Because you come in there, you don't have to worry so much about the studio and all the other actors and all that.
- Yeah, getting the company that would help advertise and cross promote the movie on the release was an important factor for New Line, so we went out to a lot of different companies.
- It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff.
- Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.
- I jumped 18 cars on a motorcycle, so I did almost everything.
- So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever.
- No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.
- They do think it is a big summer movie and that's why they want to give it a great chance, but they don't want to go up against Spider-Man 2 or some of the other big movies, the $100 million films that are coming up.
- We're talking to New Line. They've got a couple projects they're interested in me doing and I'm having meetings at MGM. There's a lot of available projects.
- So there was always a stunt coordinator on those films that was from Stunts Unlimited and I was just one of the young warriors from Stunts Unlimited that got to be a part of it because it was a big show and they needed a lot of guys.
- You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.
- I felt that if there wasn't going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right.
- I like Soderbergh, Spielberg, Lucas. There's a lot of talented guys out there obviously, and if you're a fan of films, you have to look at that stuff and learn from them.
- I mean, you have a general tone of it but it's pretty much you get to come in and you're going to flip this car and it's going to blow up and you're going to come out on fire and you go oh, that's cool, and then you get paid a lot of money.
- I think my biggest break though came probably on Patriot Games because it was the biggest, longest second unit up to that point. It was like five months of shooting and a huge crew.
- Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do.
- Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common.
- Unless you go out and say what you stand for, other people will do it for you.
- Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children.
David R. Ellis's body shape
Lets describe how David R. Ellis looks. We will focus on his body shape. Body build is average.