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Christopher Allport

Christopher Allport (June 17, 1947 – January 25, 2008) was an American actor. Alexander Wise Allport Jr. was born in Boston. His acting life began at the age of nine in New Canaan, Connecticut, at the Children's Theatre. While at Northwestern University, he worked with director Paul Sills and Story Theatre. He performed in New York with the Pub... more

Christopher Allport (June 17, 1947 – January 25, 2008) was an American actor.

Alexander Wise Allport Jr. was born in Boston. His acting life began at the age of nine in New Canaan, Connecticut, at the Children's Theatre. While at Northwestern University, he worked with director Paul Sills and Story Theatre. He performed in New York with the Public Theater at Lincoln Center, and with Ensemble Studio Theatre; and in Los Angeles at the Taper, South Coast Repertory and with Padua Playwrights. In 2007, he wrote and starred in The Backroad Home, a theatrical memoir with his original music, directed and developed by Paul Linke and produced by his wife, Susan Hayden (Ruskin Group Theatre).

One of his earliest television roles was as Tim McGowan on the soap opera Another World (1973–74). Around 1975 or 1976, Allport did a screen test with actress Amy Irving for the parts of Han Solo and Princess Leia, respectively, for the upcoming filming of the 1977 movie Star Wars. Neither actor got the parts, which went to Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher, respectively.

His film credits include Savage Weekend, To Live and Die in L.A., Jack Frost, Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman, and Garden Party, which was released in 2008. He died shortly after the latter film was completed.

His list of television credits includes appearances on such programs as Midnight Caller, The X-Files, Commander In Chief, ER, Felicity, Mad Men, and Brothers & Sisters.

His role as Andrew Campbell on Mad Men was set to be a recurring one, though he only got to appear in one episode (season one, episode 4: "New Amsterdam"). In season two, after Allport's death, they killed off his character in the American Airlines crash storyline and, later, dedicated the episode to him.

On January 25, 2008, Allport was one of three men killed by three avalanches near the Mountain High ski resort in Wrightwood, San Bernardino County, California (in the San Gabriel Mountains). There were two other fatalities: Michael McKay, an off-duty member of the resort's ski patrol, and Darin Bodie Coffey. A fourth man, snowboarder Oscar Gonzales, escaped after getting lost and hitting a rock. Winter storms had been recently hitting Southern California; the San Gabriel Mountains, while usually free of avalanches, had been hit by 3 feet (0.91 m) of snow the week before Allport died.

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To Live and Die in L.A.
(1985)
Action, Crime, Thriller
A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.
Runtime:
116 min
Director:
William Friedkin
Cast:
William Petersen, Willem Dafoe, John Pankow, Debra Feuer, John Turturro
7.3
85%
81
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Dead & Buried
(1981)
Horror, Mystery
After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living normally as locals in the small town.
Runtime:
94 min
Director:
Gary Sherman
Cast:
James Farentino, Melody Anderson, Jack Albertson, Nancy Locke, Dennis Redfield
6.6
76%
71
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Garden Party
(2008)
Drama
Are you young, sexually confused, just trying to get by? Do you sing, dance or possess some other talent? Welcome to the Garden Party. At the center of the story is 15-year-old April. She is running from one bad situation into another, hoping to find an answer that doesn't involve taking off her clothes.
Runtime:
88 min
Director:
Jason Freeland
Cast:
Vinessa Shaw, Tierra Abbott, Christopher Allport, Richard Gunn, Fiona Dourif
5.5
15%
31
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Special Bulletin
(1983)
Drama, TV Movie
A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the Charleston, SC area so they may be detonated at sea. They threaten to detonate a nuclear device of their own of their demand isnt met.
Runtime:
103 min
Director:
Edward Zwick
Cast:
Ed Flanders, Kathryn Walker, Roxanne Hart, Christopher Allport, David Clennon
7.7
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Jack Frost
(1997)
Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
As a notorious serial killer is being driven to his execution, the truck carrying him encounters a bizarre accident that transforms him into a mutant snowman. The sheriff who originally caught the psychopath has remained concerned about his return, and it seems that his fears were well-founded. Before long, bodies pile up, all killed i...
Runtime:
89 min
Director:
Michael Cooney
Cast:
Scott MacDonald, Christopher Allport, Stephen Mendel, F. William Parker, Shannon Elizabeth
4.6
7%
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Man on a Swing
(1974)
Crime, Thriller
A small-town police chief investigating a murder is offered help by a self-described psychic. However, when the chief discovers that the "psychic" is in possession of information known only to the police, he suspects that the man may be more involved in the case than he lets on.
Runtime:
110 min
Director:
Frank Perry
Cast:
Cliff Robertson, Joel Grey, Dorothy Tristan, Elizabeth Wilson, George Voskovec
6.6
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N/A
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David
(1988)
Drama, TV Movie
David is a six-year-old boy who is caught in the middle of his two feuding (& divorced) parents. His father, Charles, kidnaps him to California, where he eventually sets him on fire as a means of revenge against Marie, David's mother (Young David receives third-degree burns over 90% of his body). This movie chronicles David's strug...
Runtime:
96 min
7.2
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Message from Nam
(1993)
Drama, Romance
Journalism Major Paxton Andrews loses the man she loves in the Vietnam War. Always having followed the beat of a different drum, she decides to work out her grief by going to Vietnam and writing a column that will hopefully help those at home better understand the War.
Runtime:
175 min
Director:
Paul Wendkos
Cast:
Jenny Robertson, Nick Mancuso, Ed Flanders, Ted Marcoux, Hope Lange
6.3
N/A
N/A
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Savage Weekend
(1979)
Horror, Thriller
Several couples head upstate to the country to watch a boat being built. Unfortunately they are stalked by a murderer behind a ghoulish mask.
Runtime:
88 min
4.5
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Circle of Power
(1983)
Drama, Thriller
A group of husbands with their wives participate in a reunion where everybody will find his hidden secret. The methods used are terrible, but usually work. Just usually.
Runtime:
97 min
6.1
N/A
N/A
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Seizure: The Story of Kathy Morris
(1980)
Drama, TV Movie
A young music student has a seizure forcing her to undergo brain surgery. She comes out of the surgery unable to count or read and has difficulty adapting to life.
Runtime:
104 min
7.0
N/A
N/A
Spiker
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Spiker
(1986)
Drama
Three hopefuls try to earn a position as a member of the United States men's national volleyball team. The try-outs are extremely competitive and they find very difficult to handle the unconventional and rigorous training methods developed by the team's coach
Runtime:
104 min
5.3
N/A
N/A
Mystery Kids
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Mystery Kids
(2000)
The surprisingly intricate, nimble plot is about a couple of kids who play amateur detectives one summer in the hopes of collecting a $5,000 reward offered to anyone able to find a missing 17 year old girl. The girl and boy are best friends who have a great, unforced camaraderie with each other. None of the tiresome sniping and bickeri...
Runtime:
88 min
Director:
Lynn Hamrick
Cast:
Jameson Baltes, Keith Allison, Christopher Allport
2.9
N/A
N/A
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Jack Frost 2: The Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman
(2000)
Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
The sheriff and his deputies from the first movie decide to take a vacation in the Caribbean. Their holiday will be short-lived, however, as the thawed murderer gets inadvertently re-frozen and brought back to life. As if that weren't bad enough, he now has the ability to remain frozen even in tropical temperatures, and he's headed sou...
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
Michael Cooney
Cast:
Christopher Allport, Eileen Seeley, Chip Heller, Scott MacDonald, David Allen Brooks
3.8
N/A
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