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Matt Rippy
Houston, Texas, USA
Matt Rippy, is an American actor, born in Houston, Texas. He is most known for his role as the 'real' Captain Jack Harkness in Torchwood in 2006. He also appears in the films Day…
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Matt Rippy, is an American actor, born in Houston, Texas. He is most known for his role as the 'real' Captain Jack Harkness in Torchwood in 2006. He also appears in the films Day of the Dead and Boogeyman 3. In 1994, Rippy moved to England and was a member of the theatre group the Reduced Shakespeare Company. In a recent television appearance, Rippy portrayed the namesake of Jack Harkness of Torchwood in the first series' twelfth episode Captain Jack Harkness. In the episode, Captain Jack (Rippy) was a young American volunteer serving as an RAF Group Captain stationed in Cardiff. He was in a heterosexual relationship, and was eventually revealed to be attracted to Torchwood's Jack, who after an unfortunate "temporal shift", landed in 1941 during the height of the Cardiff blitz. Matt Rippy also starred in the fourth series of Ultimate Force, in the final episode, "Slow Bomb". He appeared in an episode of the BBC's Bonekickers on 29 July 2008. He appeared in episode 4, "The Cradle of Civilisation" as an illegal looter of Babylonian artefacts. In 2008 Rippy appeared in The Dark Knight, as the first mate aboard a hostage ship of convicts, as a newscaster in Hellboy II: The Golden Army, and in a brief cameo role in Penelope starring Christina Ricci. In 2010, he appeared as a Punter named "Jesse", in the premiere of the third season of Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Description above from the Wikipedia article Matt Rippy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2026
De Gaulle: Liberté
Movie Frank McSherry
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2026
De Gaulle: Résistance
Movie Frank McSherry
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2026
Animal Farm
Movie Additional Voices (voice)
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2026
Twenty Twenty Six
TV show Ben Stratton
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2024
The Garfield Movie
Movie Spanish Find My Pet Voice / Farmhand (voice)
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2021
A Very British Scandal
TV show Charles Sweeny
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2021
FBI: International
TV show Conrad Baumann
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2018
Ride
Movie Henri Owl
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2018
Press
TV show Max Klein
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2017
American Assassin
Movie USS Flynn Captain
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2017
Ransom
TV show Dylan Figgis
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2016
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Movie Corporal Rostock
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2016
The Crown
TV show US Intelligence Officer
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2016
A Very British Deterrent
Movie John F Kennedy
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2016
Eddie the Eagle
Movie US Anchorman
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2015
Roboshark
Movie Rick
More credits
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2014
Crystal Skulls
Movie Terry
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2014
The Monuments Men
Movie Colonel Gregg
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2014
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Movie FBI Lead Agent Simmons - Dearborn
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2009
Nativity!
Movie Harrison
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2008
Boogeyman 3
Movie Kane
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2008
The Dark Knight
Movie First Mate
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2008
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Movie Newscaster
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2008
Bonekickers
TV show
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2008
Day of the Dead
Movie Doctor Logan
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2007
Penelope
Movie Chauffeur (uncredited)
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2007
Secret Diary of a Call Girl
TV show Jesse
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2006
Cracker: Nine Eleven
Movie Molloy
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2006
Torchwood
TV show The Captain
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2006
Nuremberg: Goering's Last Stand
Movie Lt. Jack 'Tex' Wheelis
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2005
The Poseidon Adventure
Movie Lieutenant Mercer
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2005
I Shouldn't Be Alive
TV show
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2004
Beyond the Sea
Movie David Gershenson
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2002
Wild West
TV show Martin
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2001
Hotel!
Movie Agent Allright
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1993
Goodnight Sweetheart
TV show Zeffirelli
