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Demetri Goritsas is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Ethan in the Sky One television series Baddiel's Syndrome and Max Cain in the psychological thriller television series Modus.

He is also best known for his film roles as Parker in the 1998 film Saving Private Ryan (1998),^[1] Dr. Perkins in the 2019 film Radioactive (2019)^[2] and as Stuart Hutchinson in the 2015 film Everest (2015).^[3]

Career

In 1994, Goritsas made his film debut as a minor character in the drama film Little Women, featuring Winona Ryder, Christian Bale and Susan Sarandon. He also appeared as the character Slim Jim Man in the Slim Jim beef jerky commercials in the late 1990s.^[4]

He played alongside Jeremy Irons in Gallipoli in 2005 and appeared in the Torchwood series as the father of Jack Harkness. He has also dubbed video games like DRIV3R, Killzone 2, Driver: San Francisco and 007 Legends.

Goritsas appeared as Levene in the 2011 superhero film X-Men: First Class, featuring Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Kevin Bacon and Nicholas Hoult.^[5] He appeared as Parker in the 1998 Steven Spielberg film Saving Private Ryan, featuring Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns and Matt Damon.

He appeared in films such as Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, A Mighty Heart, Darkest Hour, National Treasure: Book of Secrets, The Road to Guantanamo, The Catcher Was a Spy and Thunderbirds.

His television credits include The New Addams Family, Hawkeye, Highlander: The Series, Black Mirror and Episodes.

In 2020, he appeared as Bernie Peterson in the TNT original drama series The Alienist's second season, The Alienist: Angel of Darkness.^[6]

Goritsas played actor Roy Scheider in The Shark is Broken, Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon's stage play about the making of the motion picture Jaws (1975). The Shark is Broken was staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2019, starring Ian Shaw as Robert Shaw, Liam Murray Scott as Richard Dreyfuss, and Duncan Henderson as Roy Scheider. Goritsas replaced Henderson in the role of Scheider for the played successful run at London's West End from October 2021-January 2022. "The Shark is Broken" transferred to the Royal Alexandra Theatre for a run from September–November 2022.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	Little Women	Bhaer's Student
1997	Excess Baggage	Surveillance Van Cop
1998	Saving Private Ryan	Parker
1998	House Arrest	Phil	Short film
2001	Spy Game	Billy Hyland
2002	The Bourne Identity	Con Tech
2004	Thunderbirds	News Anchor
2004	Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow	Radio Operator
2005	Gallipoli	Narrator	Documentary film
2006	The Road to Guantanamo	Interrogator #7	Documentary film
2007	A Mighty Heart	John Skelton
2007	National Treasure: Book of Secrets	Asa Trenchard
2008	Genova	Demetri	Titled as A Summer in Genova in the United States
2009	That Deadwood Feeling	Frank	Direct-to-video
2010	The Whistleblower	Kyle
2011	X-Men: First Class	Levene
2012	Acts of Godfrey	Brad Angel
2012	Good Vibrations	Paul McNally
2013	Austenland	Jimmy
2013	Rush	American Journalist
2015	Everest	Stuart Hutchinson
2016	Angel of Decay	Roger
2016	Snowden	CIA Supervisor
2016	American Killing	Clark
2017	Darkest Hour	Cabinet Secretary Bridges
2017	Papillon	Jean-Pierre Castelneau
2017	Borg vs. McEnroe	Bjorn Borg's Agent #1
2018	The Catcher Was a Spy	Clifton Fadiman
2019	Rocketman	Carter	Credited as Demtrios John Goritsas
2019	Radioactive	Dr. Perkins

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Hawkeye	Guard	Episode: "Amnesty"
1995	Highlander: The Series	Timon	Episode: "Song of the Executioner"
1995	The Annette Funicello Story	Jimmie Dodd	Television movie
1996	Prisoner of Zenda, Inc.	Baxter	Television movie
1996	The Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue	Young Kansas Man	Television movie
1997	Smudge	Jan	Television movie
1998	Millennium	Agent Dixon	Episode: "Exegesis"
1999	Viper	Alan Keefe	Episode: "Of Course, It's a Miracle"
1999	The New Addams Family	Simon	Episode: "Lurch's Little Helper"
2000	Search	Vince	Unknown episodes
2001	Baddiel's Syndrome	Ethan	14 episodes
2002	Breaking News	Spokesman	Episode: "Pilot"
2005	Numb3rs	FBI Tech #2	Episode: "Identity Crisis"
2006	Cracker	Harry Peters	Television movie
2006	The Path to 9/11	American Driver	Television movie
2007	Spooks	Frank Lowell	Episode: "The Courier"
2008	Torchwood	Jack's Father	Episode: "Adam"
2009	Clouds Over the Hill	Stonetong	Uncredited Unknown episodes
2010	The Special Relationship	Strategist	Television movie
2011	Wicked Pirate City	Narrator	Television documentary movie
2011-2012	Episodes	Director	9 episodes
2011	Wallaby Run	Seb (voice)	US version Television movie
2012	6 passi nei giallo	Sebastian Brody	Episode: "Souvenirs"
2012	Twenty Twelve	Max Madeley^[7]	Episode: "The Rapper"^[8]
2012-2013	Nova	Narrator	3 episodes Television documentary series
2012	Playhouse Presents	HR Haldeman	Episode: "Nixon's the One"
2013	Nixon's the One	HR Haldeman	6 episodes
2014	A Poet in New York	Dr. Milton Feltenstein	Television movie
2014-2015	Railroad Alaska	Narrator	18 episodes
2015	The Gamechangers	US Radio DJ (voice)	Television movie
2016	Black Mirror	Hansen	Episode: "Nosedive"
2017	Modus	Max Cain	4 episodes
2018	Ransom	Stan Merker	Episode: "Promised Land"
2020–present	The Alienist: Angel of Darkness	Bernie Peterson	Recurring cast

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Ghost Master	Additional Voices (voice)
2004	Driver 3	Bad Hand, Additional Voices (voice)	Credited as Demitri Goritsas^[9]
2009	Killzone 2	Sgt. Thomas "Sev" Sevchenko (voice)
2010	Enslaved: Odyssey to the West	Additional Voices (voice)
2010	Apache: Air Assault	Additional Voices (voice)
2011	Driver: San Francisco	John Tanner (voice)	Credited as Demitri Goritsas^[9]
2012	Inversion	Davis Russell (voice)
2012	007 Legends	Felix Leiter (voice)
2014	The Crew	Additional Voices (voice)
2018	Overkill's The Walking Dead	Survivors (voice)
2020	The Signifier	Carl (voice)
2022	Dying Light 2 Stay Human	Waltz (voice)
2022	Triangle Strategy	Maxwell Trier (voice)

References

^ Hathaway, Hashim (July 20, 2018). "Miller's Men: What became of the cast of 'Saving Private Ryan'". www.yardbarker.com. Yard Barker. Retrieved October 31, 2020.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ Hermanns, Grant (July 24, 2020). "Radioactive Review: A Compelling Lead Can't Save a Flawed Script". www.coming soon.net. Retrieved October 31, 2020.
^ Young, Sage (September 18, 2015). "Where Are The 'Everest' Survivors Today?". www.bustle.com. Bustle. Retrieved October 31, 2020.
^ "Eat Me Guy From Slim Jim Commercials: Memba Him?!". www.tmz.com. TMZ. May 12, 2015. Retrieved January 20, 2021.
^ "Demetri Goritsas Talks about His Career and Role in "X-Men:First Class"". www.hollywoodgreekreporter.com. Hollywood Greek Reporter. Archived from the original on September 25, 2018. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
^ Bundel, Ani (July 19, 2020). "The Alienist: Angel Of Darkness brings another serial killer case to 1890s New York". The A.V. Club. AV Club. Archived from the original on December 30, 2020. Retrieved January 20, 2021.
^ Writer: John Morton; Director: John Morton; Producer: Jon Plowman (20 April 2012). "The Rapper". Twenty Twelve. BBC. BBC Two.
^ "Demetri Goritsas' British Comedy Guide Page". www.comedy.co.uk. British Comedy Guide. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Demetri Goritsas (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 28 September 2021. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)