Michael Chiklis Filmography

Born:: Mass
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Though known mainly for his role as complicated police officer Vic Mackey on F/X's television cop drama The Shield, Massachusetts native Michael Chiklis has been acting professionally since the age of 13, when he made several appearances at the Town and Country Playhouse in Salem, NH. From there...Read More

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Eagle Eye

Actors: Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson, Anthony Mackie, Billy Bob Thornton, Michael Chiklis

Synopsis: In the wake of his overachieving twin brother's mysterious death, a young slacker (Shia LaBeouf) learns that he and a single mother (Michelle Monaghan) have been framed as terrorists by an unknown source in this thriller from Disturbia director D.J. Caruso. As a result of the accusation, the Read More

9/26/08
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Actors: Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Julian McMahon

Synopsis: The world's most famous team of astronauts-cum-superheroes returns in the effects-heavy sequel Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. As the story opens, Sue Storm, AKA The Invisible Girl (Jessica Alba), and Reed Richards, AKA Mr. Fantastic (Ioan Gruffudd) prepare for their upcoming Read More

6/15/07
Rise: Blood Hunter

Actors: Lucy Liu, Michael Chiklis, Carla Gugino, James D'Arcy, Samaire Armstrong

Synopsis: A woman who joins the undead against her will seeks vengeance against the ghouls who transformed her in this thriller. Sadie Blake (Lucy Liu) is a journalist who becomes acquainted with a group of beautiful but doomstruck partiers while following a story, led by the charismatic Bishop (James Read More

6/1/07
The Shield: Season 06

Synopsis: Season Six of The Shield opens as Detective Vic Mackey (Michael Chilkis) and the rest of the Farmington District Strike Force mourn the death of their colleague Curtis Lemensky (Kenneth Johnson), who was killed by a hand grenade just before he was to be shipped out of the country to prevent his Read More

2007
The Shield: Season 05

Synopsis: It looks like the career of the spectacular successful--and spectacularly corrupt--Farmington District Stike Force is about to screech to a halt in the the fifth season of the gritty cop drama The Shield. It's hard for Force leader Det. Vic Mackey (Michael Chilkis) to go about his business as Read More

2006
Fantastic Four

Actors: Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Julian McMahon

Synopsis: A handful of heroes become superheroes under unlikely circumstances in this action drama adapted from the long-running Marvel comic book series. Four astronauts are on a mission aboard a new experimental spacecraft when they are unexpectedly exposed to a massive dose of gamma rays. The accident Read More

7/8/05
The Shield: Season 04

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michael Chiklis, Glenn Close, Catherine Dent, Walt Goggins, Michael Jace

Synopsis: Although the gritty cop drama The Shield would become the FX's network longest-running dramatic series during its fourth season, a serious drop in ratings at the end of season three could well have precipitated the show's cancellation. Giving the program a major shot in the arm was the addition of Read More

2005
The Shield: Slipknot

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Corrine (Cathy Cahlin Ryan) is attacked at the hospital by an Asian man (Xuyen Tu Valdivia) she's trying to patch up. Vic (Michael Chiklis) argues with Owen (Vincent Angell) over whether or not she should go to the station and file a report. Vic plans to hunt down the perp regardless. Called away Read More

2004
The Shield: Season 03

Actors: Michael Chiklis, Walt Goggins, Kenny Johnson, Benito Martinez, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Fans of The Shield were outraged when, at the end of the series' second season, it looked as if popular supporting character Officer Danielle "Danny" Sofer (Catherine Dent) had been fired from the Farmington District Strike Force. But when season three rolled around, it was revealed that Danny's Read More

2004
The Shield: Partners

Actors: Catherine Dent, Benito Martinez, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: After viciously assaulting Armadillo (Danny Pino), Mackey (Michael Chiklis) storms off into the night. Claudette (C.C.H. Pounder) begins to investigate Tio's murder. Someone dumps a severed arm on Dutch's (Jay Karnes) desk, and he desperately tries to find the girl it belongs to in the hopes that Read More

2003
The Shield: Season 02

Actors: Catherine Dent, Benito Martinez, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Season two of The Shield begins with Detective Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis), the hard-nosed, sometimes homicidal, and seldom ethical leader of the Farmington District Strike Force, desperately missing his wife, Corinne (Cathleen Cahlin Ryan), and his three kids, who have left him; meanwhile, the Read More

2003
Three Stooges' 75th Anniversary Special

Synopsis: Perhaps the most thorough (and least hokey) of the many TV Three Stooges retrospectives, this NBC special not only concentrates on the most popular members of the comic trio -- Jerry "Curly" Howard, Moe Howard, and Larry Fine -- but also provides generous and laudatory screen time to Curly's Read More

2003
The Shield: The Dead Soldiers

Actors: Catherine Dent, Benito Martinez, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Mackey (Michael Chiklis) and the Strike Team bust some thugs that recently joined Armadillo's (Danny Pino) gang, and leave the team's calling card as a message. Armadillo responds by torching Tio's (Cedric Pendleton) drug crib, and leaves a dead pig at the scene with Mackey's card. Mackey tries to Read More

2003
The Shield: Quick Fix

Actors: Catherine Dent, Benito Martinez, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Armadillo Quintero (Danny Pino), a Mexican drug dealer, is in L.A. and is making his presence felt, brutally murdering two captains from rival gangs. Mackey (Michael Chiklis) has hired Gordie Liman (Mark Rolston), a private detective, to track down his missing wife, but he's not having much luck. Read More

2003
The Shield: Co-Pilot

Actors: Catherine Dent, Benito Martinez, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: This episode takes us back 14 months, to the origin of the Strike Team. A less hardened Mackey (Michael Chiklis) convinces Gilroy (John Diehl) to let him handpick and run the team, which will be based in a new satellite precinct, the Barn. Aceveda (Benito Martinez) gives them their first case, a Read More

2003
The Shield: Carte Blanche

Actors: Catherine Dent, Benito Martinez, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Aceveda (Benito Martinez) gives Mackey (Michael Chiklis) a medal after the Fleetwood Walker bust. It turns out it was Lanie's (Lucinda Jenney) idea. The cops at "The Barn" also add a new twist to their annual "Toys for Guns" drive -- a raffle, which also gets them the address of everyone who turns Read More

2003
The Shield: Inferno

Actors: Catherine Dent, Benito Martinez, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Julien (Michael Jace) single-handedly takes down an armed suspect in a department store, but his triumph is short-lived, as Tomas (Brent Roam) returns, and threatens to expose his recent sexual past to his new family. Aceveda's (Benito Martinez) city council campaign is losing steam, and Mackey (Michael Chiklis Read More

2003
The Shield: Breakpoint

Actors: Catherine Dent, Benito Martinez, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: After seeing the auditor's report on the Barn, Chief Bankston (Ron Canada) tells Aceveda (Benito Martinez) he wants the unit cut by 20 percent, and he wants Aceveda to give him a list of names by the end of the day, so Aceveda is forced to neglect his city council campaign with the primary Read More

2003
The Shield: Dominoes Falling

Actors: Catherine Dent, Benito Martinez, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Mackey (Michael Chiklis) gets out of jail and goes back to work, plotting to take down the money train. Chief Bankston (Ron Canada) lets him know that Aceveda (Benito Martinez) wanted him and the whole Strike Team fired. Claudette's (CCH Pounder) ex-husband is murdered in an apparently random gang Read More

2003
The Shield: Greenlit

Actors: Catherine Dent, Benito Martinez, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Mackey (Michael Chiklis) and Shane (Walton Goggins) tell the team about their plans to take down the money train. Lem (Kenny Johnson) thinks it's a bad idea to take on the Armenian mob, and he bows out, making Shane and Mackey question his loyalty to them. Connie (Jamie Brown) shows up with a tip Read More

2003
The Shield: Homewrecker

Actors: Catherine Dent, Benito Martinez, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Aceveda (Benito Martinez) finds a minority candidate for the Strike Team, but Mackey (Michael Chiklis) manages to scare the guy off. Danny (Catherine Dent) tells Julien (Michael Jace) she won't let his fiancée know about his "former" homosexuality, but she warns him that his secret could come back Read More

2003
The Shield: Coyotes

Actors: Catherine Dent, Benito Martinez, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Lannie's (Lucinda Jenney) scalding report on the Barn is leaked to the local newspapers, causing major embarrassment for Aceveda (Benito Martinez) and the Strike Team. Gilroy (John Diehl) calls Mackey (Michael Chiklis) to tell him that he's escaped house arrest, and that the DA wants him to rat Read More

2003
The Shield: Season 01

Actors: Catherine Dent, Benito Martinez, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: The first season of The Shield almost instantly establishes Detective Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis) as "Not Your Typical TV Cop." The leader of the Farmington District Strike Force, Mackey is mean, profane, violent, and some distance removed from honest. And it is not simply that Mackey is willing Read More

2002
The Shield: The Spread

Actors: Catherine Dent, Benito Martinez, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Aceveda (Benito Martinez) announces a Farmington-wide sweep of all outstanding warrants. Connie (Jamie Brown) goes to see Mackey (Michael Chiklis) to complain that a john slashed her when she tried to put a condom on him. He's busy serving warrants, so he asks Dutch (Jay Karnes) to take her to the Read More

2002
The Shield: Dawg Days

Actors: Catherine Dent, Benito Martinez, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Danny (Catherine Dent) and Lemonhead (Kenny Johnson) are moonlighting, working security at a "shake club," where rap impresario Kern Little (Sticky Fingaz) is having a party with his girl and fellow recording artist, Tyesha (Chene Lawson). Kern's rival and former labelmate, T-Bonz (Dex Elliott Sanders Read More

2002
The Shield: Pilot

Actors: Catherine Dent, Benito Martinez, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: As Captain David Aceveda (Benito Martinez) gives a press conference, touting impressive crime statistics and community outreach in Farmington (L.A.) under his watch, Detective Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis) and his Strike Team chase down a drug dealer, and Mackey impolitely exposes the perp's Read More

2002
The Shield: Our Gang

Actors: Catherine Dent, Benito Martinez, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Danny (Catherine Dent) shows up at the hospital, where Aceveda (Benito Martinez) gives everyone the news that Crowley (Reed Diamond) is dead. Acevedo wants to conduct his own investigation, but Assistant Chief Gilroy (John Diehl) tells him to let IAD handle it. Danny offers Mackey (Michael Read More

2002
The Shield: Throwaway

Actors: Catherine Dent, Benito Martinez, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: A truck is hijacked and the driver viciously beaten. Mackey (Michael Chiklis) goes to work on the case, despite the fact that it's his day off, annoying his overburdened wife, Corrine (Cathy Cahlin Ryan). The driver describes his assailant's tattoos, leading Mackey and the Strike Team to suspect Read More

2002
The Shield: Two Days of Blood

Actors: Catherine Dent, Benito Martinez, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Mackey (Michael Chiklis) busts a cockfighting ring. One of the suspects offers to help the Strike Team nab a major gun dealer, so Shane (Walton Goggins) goes undercover as a trainer to catch him. But Shane is more interested in the bounty that the Mexican government is offering for the gunrunner Read More

2002
The Shield: Circles

Actors: Catherine Dent, Benito Martinez, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Tensions grow in the neighborhood where two women were killed due to a delayed police response to a 911 call. Julien (Michael Jace) and Danny (Catherine Dent) receive a phony 911 call, which lures them into an ambush in which two other uniform cops are killed. Mackey (Michael Chiklis) has to move Read More

2002
The Shield: Dragonchasers

Actors: Catherine Dent, Benito Martinez, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: One of the strippers at a local club is leading customers into a back alley for sex so that her partner can mug them. While Mackey (Michael Chiklis) and the Strike Team work an unconventional sting operation, Julien (Michael Jace) and Danny (Catherine Dent) catch a guy, Sean Taylor (Michael Read More

2002
The Shield: Carnivores

Actors: Catherine Dent, Benito Martinez, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Someone is trying to drive Rondell (Walter Emanuel Jones) out of the drug business. Things come to a head when they shoot up Kern's (Sticky Fingaz) car. Rondell suspects the Nation of Islam, which has been trying to push him out of the neighborhood around their mosque, leading to a scuffle between Read More

2002
Spirited Away

Actors: Rumi Hiiragi, Daveigh Chase, Miyu Irino, Jason Marsden, Suzanne Pleshette, Mari Natsuki, Susan Egan, Yumi Tamai, Yasuka Sawaguchi, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Master animation director Hayao Miyazaki follows up on his record-breaking 1997 opus Princess Mononoke with this surreal Alice in Wonderland-like tale about a lost little girl. The film opens with ten-year-old Chihiro riding along during a family outing as her father races through remote country Read More

7/20/01
Family Guy: Lethal Weapons

Synopsis: Quahog residents brace themselves for the annual return of the "Leafers," obnoxious tourists from New York who flood the town to view the autumn foliage. Inspired by Bonnie's (voice of Jennifer Tilly) impressive figure, Lois (voice of Alex Borstein) joins a Tae-Jitsu class taught by Jared (voice Read More

2001
Family Guy: Fish Out of Water

Synopsis: Since he lost his job, Peter (voice of Seth MacFarlane) has gained a lot of weight from sitting on the couch watching television. After a walk on the pier with Brian (MacFarlane), he decides to become a fisherman. "That's how a real New England man makes his living," he reasons. He buys a boat at Read More

2001
Heavy Gear [Animated Series]

2001
Daddio [TV Series]

Actors: Anita Barone, Michael Chiklis, Kevin Crowley

Synopsis: In the tradition of Mr. Mom and My Two Dads comes this breathtakingly-original show about an oafish though loveable salesman who quits his job and raises the kids. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

2000
The Three Stooges

Actors: Paul Ben-Victor, Rachael Blake, Brandon Burke, Peter Callan, Michael Chiklis

Synopsis: The comedy team that made the phrase "nyuk nyuk nyuk" part of the American vocabulary gets the full biographical treatment in this made-for-TV feature. The Three Stooges opens in 1959, as a TV executive tries to persuade Moe Howard (Paul Ben-Victor) to reunite with his former onscreen partners to Read More

2000
Taxman

Actors: Joe Pantoliano, Wade Dominguez, Elizabeth Berkley, Michael Chiklis, Robert Townsend

Synopsis: Tailing a Brooklyn tax evader, tax investigator Al Benjamin (Joe Pantoliano) uncovers several murders. Ignoring the police and his tax-office boss, Al teams with rookie cop Joseph Romero (Wade Dominguez). Their efforts to solve the killings lead them to the boss of the Russian immigrant community Read More

9/17/99
Silent Witness

Actors: William Hurt, Jennifer Tilly, Denis Leary

Synopsis: A frightened child and her parents must endure a night of terror in this thriller. Walter (WIlliam Hurt) and Cathryn (Jennifer Tilly) are an American couple traveling in Amsterdam with their ten-year-old daughter Melissa (Francesca Brown). When Melissa accidentally witnesses a murder, the killers Read More

1999
Soldier

Actors: Kurt Russell, Jason Scott Lee, Connie Nielsen, Sean Pertwee, Michael Chiklis

Synopsis: After scripting Blade Runner and Twelve Monkeys, David Webb Peoples continued to traverse the science fiction landscape with this action-adventure directed by Paul Anderson. A prologue shows infants classified 1A and placed in an academy promoting violent militarism. Spawned in such an Read More

10/23/98
Touched By an Angel: Breaking Bread

Synopsis: Having witnessed a hate crime committed by a gang of white supremacists against a black law student, baker Matt Colletti (a pre-The ShieldMichael Chilkis) is too frightened to come forward and tell the authorities. It is up to Monica and Tess--disguised respectively as an assistant baker and a Read More

1998
Body and Soul

Actors: Rod Steiger, Jennifer Beals, Michael Chiklis, Tahnee Welch, Ray Mancini

Synopsis: Former boxing great Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini brings years of experience in the ring to his role in this drama. Charlie (Mancini) is an up-and-coming boxer who decides he needs to move to the big city if he wants to be a contender. With his best friend and manager Tiny (Michael Chiklis) in tow Read More

1998
Nixon

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe, Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins

Synopsis: Oliver Stone, the most outspokenly political American filmmaker of the 1980s and '90s, directs this epic-length biography of Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the U.S., who was re-elected by a landslide in 1972, only to resign in disgrace two years later. Taking a non-linear approach, Nixon Read More

1995
The Commish: Season 05

Synopsis: Although The Commish officially came to an end at the end of its fourth season, the series was briefly revived in late 1999 with three new episodes advertised as "movie specials." "In the Shadow of the Gallows" finds Eastbridge, NY, police commissioner Tony Scali (Michael Chiklis) plagued by a Read More

1995
The Commish: Season 04

Synopsis: Season four of The Commish gets off to a harrowing start with the two-part "Against the Wind," wherein Eastbridge, NY, police commissioner Tony Scali (Michael Chiklis) is temporarily paralyzed in an assassination attempt. Though he manages to recover from this, Tony narrowly escapes death in a Read More

1994
The Commish: Season 03

Synopsis: The two-part "Suffer the Children," all about the investigation of a runaway's death, opens the third season of The Commish. With his wife, Rachel (Theresa Saldana), pursuing a new career in Buffalo, Tony Scali (Michael Chiklis), police commissioner of Eastbridge, NY, considers quitting his job Read More

1993
The Commish: Season 02

Synopsis: Season two of The Commish finds unorthodox, freewheeling Tony Scali (Michael Chiklis) still securely installed as police commissioner in the suburban New York community of Eastbridge. There have, however, been some changes within Tony's circle of associates: Chief of Detectives Paulie Pentangeli Read More

1992
The Commish: Season 01

Synopsis: Quite a lot of difficult cases cross the desk of Eastbridge, NY, police commissioner Tony Scali (Michael Chiklis) during season one of The Commish. Scali and his associates must tackle everything from rapists to child molesters to white supremacists -- and on a lighter note, the men in the Read More

1991
The Commish [TV Series]

Synopsis: Based on the life and career of Tony Schembri, police chief of Rye, NY, the weekly, hour-long ABC crime series The Commish starred Michael Chiklis as Tony Scali, police commissioner of the fictional New York community of Eastbridge. Although dedicated to his job and extremely tough on Read More

1991
The Rain Killer

Actors: Ray Sharkey, David Beecroft, Tania Coleridge, Michael Chiklis, Bill LaVallee

Synopsis: Ray Sharkey plays Detective Vince Capra of the LAPD whose job it is to discover the identity of a serial killer who has been murdering rich single ladies when the rain falls. He's saddled with an FBI agent who's supposed to assist him in solving the crime, but tends to get in his way. There are Read More

9/14/90
Murphy Brown: Brown and Blue

Synopsis: Long before The Commish and The Shield, Michael Chiklis guest-starred on this Murphy Brown episode as a foul-mouthed, misogynistic standup comedian named Andrew Dice...er, named Tony Rocket. Not wishing to put up with Rocket's patented anti-feminist slurs, Murphy refuses the opportunity of Read More

1990
B.L. Stryker: Blues for Buder

1989
Wired

Actors: Michael Chiklis, Ray Sharkey, J.T. Walsh, Patti D'Arbanville, Lucinda Jenney

Synopsis: This film, loosely-based on the book by Bob Woodward, follows the career of comedian John Belushi (Michael Chiklis) as his spirit is guided through the past by the Angel Velasquez (Ray Sharkey). ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1989

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