Willis, Jack

PERSONAL

Addresses: Agent—Leading Artists, 145 West 45th St., Suite 1204, New York, NY 10036.

Career: Actor. American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, MA, member; Aruba Repertory, founding member.

Awards, Honors: Elliot Norton Award, outstanding actor, 1995, for Hot 'n' Throbbing, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Three Hotels.

CREDITS

Stage Appearances:

Caliban, The Tempest, American Repertory Theatre, Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge, MA, 1995.

Tilden, Buried Child, Loeb Drama Center, 1996.

Relling, The Wild Duck, Loeb Drama Center, 1997.

The drum major, Woyzeck, 1997.

Bruto, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Loeb Drama Center, 1997.

Carl, The Old Neighborhood, Hasty Pudding Theatre, Cambridge, MA, 1997.

Hector Malone, Sr., Man and Superman, Loeb Drama Center, 1997.

Yvan/Serge, Art, Royale Theatre, New York City, 1998–99.

Title role, Agamemnon and His Daughters, Fichandler Theatre, Washington, DC, 2001.

World of Mirth, Theatre Four, New York City, 2001.

Marshal Herrick, The Crucible, Virginia Theatre, New York City, 2002.

Mulberry, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, Pace University, New York City, 2002.

Footman, Otto, Pfeiffer, Princess Ursula, Reverend Howesbury, and Sergeant, Valhalla, New York Theatre Workshop, New York City, 2004.

Casca, Julius Caesar, Belasco Theatre, New York City, 2005.

Lord Augustus, Lady Windermere's Fan, '62 Center for Theatre and Dance, Williamstown, MA, 2005.

Sam "Mammy" Wurlizter, Happy End, American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco, CA, 2006.

Also appeared in The Ipheginia Cycle and Dante's Inferno, both Off-Broadway productions; as the husband, The Accident; man, Hot 'n' Throbbing; Jamie Cregan, A Touch of the Poet; Lopakhin, The Cherry Orchard; Sir Walter Blunt, Henry IV, Part 1; Lord Hastings, Henry IV, Part 2; Boss Mangan, Heartbreak House; Panin, Black Snow; Uytterspot, Dream of the Red Spider; Aston, The Caretaker; Sal, Those the River Keeps; Banquo, Macbeth; as Willie Stark, All the King's Men and Jack Henry Abbott, In the Belly of the Beast, both Dallas Theatre Center.

Major Tours:

Yvan, Art, U.S. cities, 2000.

Film Appearances:

Liquor store owner, I Come in Peace (also known as Dark Angel), Triumph Films, 1990.

Regular Joe, Problem Child, 1990.

Danny Volcheck, Love Hurts, 1991.

Bo, Free Floaters, 1997.

Robber, The Out-of-Towners, Paramount, 1999.

Lawyer, Cradle Will Rock, Buena Vista, 1999.

Greenleaf chauffeur, The Talented Mr. Ripley (also known as The Mysterious Yearning Secretive Sad Lonely Troubled Confused Loving Musical Gifted Intelligent Beautiful Tender Sensitive Haunted Passionate Talented Mr. Ripley), Paramount, 1999.

Cliff Cowers, Messengers, Push, 2004.

Also appeared in Leaving the Post.

Television Appearances; Movies:

Lou Edwards, Grace and Glorie, CBS, 1998.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Duane Wheeler, "Faccia a Faccia," Law & Order, NBC, 1998.

"Red Herring," Deadline, Trio, 2001.

Stan Fletcher, "Armed Forces," Law & Order, NBC, 2001.

Chester, "Castles of the Sand," Third Watch, NBC, 2003.

Also appeared in All My Children, ABC; Dallas, CBS.