Ted Otis
Birthday: Born in 1972-10-24 in La Jolla, San Diego, California, USA
Deathday: Alive
Ted Otis is a documentarian, preservationist, actor, and publisher. He has performed with Malcolm McDowell, Paul Rudd, Geoffrey Rush, and Emily Watson, and worked on productions featuring Jennifer Lawrence, Jeremy Irons, and director Francis Lawrence. From Santa Monica, California, Otis relocated to Prague for over a decade, working as an actor, voice actor, location manager, and teacher across Iceland, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine, and the Czech Republic. A member of SAG-AFTRA and ASCAP, Otis has composed original scores and sound effects for various productions. His documentary credits include The Power of Peace (hosted by Uma Thurman and Harry Belafonte) and Secrets of the C.I.A. for Turner Broadcasting System, both airing internationally. Otis's industry roots run deep. His stepfather, Clifford David—an Academy member and Broadway veteran mentored by Lee Strasberg—introduced him to Hollywood sound stages in the 1970s. His godfather, Lewis Milestone, won Oscars for directing All Quiet on the Western Front and Two Arabian Knights. His father, Ted Otis Sr., appeared in Maverick, The Rifleman, and a first-season Twilight Zone episode adapted by Rod Serling into Planet of the Apes. His step-grandfather, Gordon Oliver, was an RKO contract player and producer of hits like Peter Gunn and Mr. Lucky, frequently attending premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theatre and the Cocoanut Grove. A conservationist, Otis has renovated celebrity estates in Bel Air, Beverly Hills, Los Feliz Oaks, and Silverlake. He is a long-time Hollywood Heritage member with a passion for preserving Hollywood's historic infrastructure and film history. Additional information is available on his LinkedIn profile.
TV Credits
Crossing Lines
Character: Heinrich Kaufman
Through globalization, many countries have been opened and barriers removed to ensure easy trade, travel and cultural diversity. However, this openness has given opportunities to criminals looking to exploit the system and ultimately threaten our global safety. As Europe has become a "safe house" for criminals eluding law enforcers, a special kind of law enforcement team is needed to handle specific ongoing crimes on a global level. "Crossing Lines" is the story of one such team, made up of five...
Crossing Lines
Character: Businessman
Through globalization, many countries have been opened and barriers removed to ensure easy trade, travel and cultural diversity. However, this openness has given opportunities to criminals looking to exploit the system and ultimately threaten our global safety. As Europe has become a "safe house" for criminals eluding law enforcers, a special kind of law enforcement team is needed to handle specific ongoing crimes on a global level. "Crossing Lines" is the story of one such team, made up of five...
Die Dasslers
Character: Captain Rollins
The life and struggle of the Dassler brothers. Founders of the brands of Adidas and Puma....
The Amazing Race
Character: Kafka Supervisor (uncredited)
This reality competition sees teams embark on a trek around the world to amazing destinations where they must compete in a series of challenges, some mental and some physical. Only when the tasks are completed will they learn of their next location. Teams who are the farthest behind will gradually be eliminated as the contest progresses, with the first team to arrive at the final destination winning the race and the $1 million prize....
Movie Credits
Woods
Character: Norbert
A struggling writer believes a secret from his past has come back to haunt him. Paranoia and guilt take over as he tries to figure out who or what has been plaguing him with increasingly violent attacks....
Army of Thieves
Character: Snob
A mysterious woman recruits bank teller Ludwig Dieter to lead a group of aspiring thieves on a top-secret heist during the early stages of the zombie apocalypse....
The Island
Character: Jimmy Holiday
Richard and Alice quarrel on an exotic vacation because Richard wants to get a divorce. They decide to fly home early, but their small plane crashes on a deserted island, forcing Richard and Alice to wait together for rescue....
The Great Santini
Character: Bus Passenger (uncredited)
As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated marine pilot....
The Devil's Mistress
Character: Robert George Ritchie - MGM Agent
Salzburg, Germany, 2000. The elderly Czech actress Lída Baarová tells a journalist the tumultuous story of her rise to fame in 1930s Berlin and her passionate relationship with the sinister Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda of the Third Reich....
The Glass Room
Character: Police Officer
Liesel Landauer and her friend Hana are linked by a lifelong relationship and an exceptional house built by the architect Von Abt for Liesel and her husband Viktor in Czechoslovakia in the early 1930s....
The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street
Character: Immigration Commissioner
The film tells the life story of its director, Jan Nemec, one of the most known and important filmmakers of Czech New Wave....
Murder of a President
Character: Reporter
The life of President James Garfield, including his rise to power and the aftermath of his assassination....
Amundsen
Character: Lincoln Ellsworth
The story of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the leader of the first expedition to reach the South Pole in 1911, and the first person to reach both the North and South Poles in 1926. Follows his all-consuming drive as a polar explorer and the tragedy he brought on himself and others by sacrificing everything in the icy wastelands to achieve his dream....
Flatliners
Character: Medical Student (uncredited)
Five medical students experiment with "near death" experiences, until the dark consequences of past tragedies begin to jeopardize their lives....
The Catcher Was a Spy
Character: Radio Show Director
Former major league baseball player Moe Berg lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services in World War II Europe....
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Character: Photographer (uncredited)
After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and opportunists clamber to use it to their advantage....
The Lost Legion
Character: Senator
Following the fall of the Roman Empire, a Roman woman plots to make her son the new Emperor and to fulfill the former glory of the city....
The Lost Legion
Character: Gladiator Woman
Following the fall of the Roman Empire, a Roman woman plots to make her son the new Emperor and to fulfill the former glory of the city....
Dreams I Never Had
Character:
A teenage girl is held captive in the home of a wealthy family. She is befriended by the family's young gardener, himself an illegal from Mexico. Their friendship carries both of them through their hopeless, sequestered lives and ultimately inspires them to break free....