Vyto Ruginis

Vytautas "Vyto" Ruginis (* 1956 in Wolverhampton , United Kingdom ) is an American actor .

Life

Ruginis was born in 1956 to Lithuanian immigrants in Wolverhampton, UK. When Ruginis was four years old, his family moved to the United States and settled in Chicago , where Ruginis also grew up. He attended St. Ignatius College Prep there.

After completing his studies, he took on smaller roles in television productions such as Ryan's Hope from 1982 . He took on his first major role in 1985 in the mini-series Kane & Abel at the side of Peter Strauss and Sam Neill . From the mid-1980s, Ruginis also appeared in major supporting roles in films such as 8 Million Ways to Die , Jumpin 'Jack Flash and The Damned of War .

In 1991, Ruginis worked with Elizabeth Taylor on a commercial for Taylor's perfume White Diamonds . At the side of Sylvester Stallone and Rex Linn , he appeared in the 1993 action film Cliffhanger - Only the Strong Survive as FBI agent Matheson .

In addition to his film roles, Ruginis can be seen regularly in guest roles in well-known television series. He appeared in Starship Enterprise: The Next Century , Nash Bridges , New York Cops - NYPD Blue , Ally McBeal , CSI: On the Trail of the Criminals , The X Files - The FBI's Scary Cases , Amy , Crossing Jordan - Pathologist with profile , The West Wing - In the center of power , JAG - On behalf of honor , Boston Legal , Dr. House and Numbers - The logic of crime on.

He became known to a larger audience in 1999 for his role as the vampire Russell Winters in the first episode of the television series Angel . Since 2009 he has appeared in 20 episodes of the crime series Navy CIS: LA as Arkady Kolcheck .

Filmography (selection)

• 1985: Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom (TV movie)
• 1985: Kane & Abel (mini-television series)
• 1986: 8 Million Ways to Die
• 1986: Jumpin 'Jack Flash
• 1987: The thieving magpie (Burglar)
• 1987: Verne Miller - Public Enemy No. 1 (The Verne Miller Story)
• 1987: Made in Heaven
• 1988: Hot to Trot (Hot to Trot)
• 1988: Killing Girls (Slipping Into Darkness)
• 1989: The Casualties of War
• 1990: Palermo forgotten (Dimenticare Palermo)
• 1990: Bloody Angel ( Descending Angel , TV movie)
• 1992: Perry Mason and the Shameless Romeo ( Perry Mason: The Case of the Reckless Romeo , TV movie)
• 1992: Love Is Like That
• 1993: Cliffhanger - Only the strong survive (Cliffhanger)
• 1994: Blackout - A detective seeks himself (Clean Slate)
• 1995: Last Gasp (Last Gasp)
• 1996: Operation - Broken Arrow (Broken Arrow)
• 1996: Phenomenon - The impossible comes true (Phenomenon)
• 1996: Marriage by Calculation - Until Your Death Do Us Part (Vows of Deception)
• 1997: A Thousand Acres (A Thousand Acres)
• 1997: The Devil's Advocate (The Devil's Advocate)
• 1997: Medusa's Child - atomic bomb on board the 737 ( Medusa's Child , TV movie)
• 1998: Yakima Wash
• 1999: Wishmaster 2 : Evil Never Dies (Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies)
• 1999: Insider (The Insider)
• 2000: Robbers
• 2000: The Visit
• 2001: Divorce in American ( Private Lies , TV movie)
• 2001: The Fast and the Furious
• 2001: Out of Control ( Dangerous Child , Movie made for TV)
• 2001: The Glass House
• 2002: Backflash
• 2002: Auto Focus
• 2004: The Last Run
• 2004: Capital City (TV movie)
• 2006: Sideliners (TV movie)
• 2006: Home of the Brave
• 2007: The Gray Man
• 2008: Player 5150
• since 2009: Navy CIS: LA ( NCIS: Los Angeles , TV series, 20 episodes)
• 2010: The Candidate
• 2011: The Art of Winning - Moneyball (Moneyball)
• 2012: Blue-Eyed Butcher (TV movie)
• 2014: Dark Alien
• 2017: Stebuklas
• 2020: Deputy (TV series, 2 episodes)

Web links

• Vyto Ruginis in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Jos partneris filmavimo aikštelėje - lietuvaitis at alietuvis.us, accessed on October 20, 2011
2. ↑ Elizabeth Taylor White Diamonds at youtube.com, accessed October 20, 2011