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name: "Chris Pedersen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/chris-pedersen"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "22 May 1963"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 83
updated: "2026-09-16T21:20:17.794905+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Chris Pedersen

Actor. Born 22 May 1963 in San Francisco, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 22 May 1963, San Francisco, California, USA
- **Active:** 1986–1991

## Biography

Chris Pedersen is an American actor, musician and race car driver. Born on 22 May 1963 in San Francisco, he grew up in Southern California and had no formal acting training. He was approached by director Penelope Spheeris at a park in Burbank while the band T.S.O.L. was playing, leading to his screen debut as Jack Diddley in the 1983 film *Suburbia*.

Pedersen appeared in several notable films of the 1980s and early 1990s. He played Crawford in Oliver Stone's *Platoon* (1986), an aide in *Born on the Fourth of July* (1989), Bunker in Kathryn Bigelow's *Point Break* (1991) and Tommy in David Lynch's *Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me* (1992). He also had a guest role in the television series *Baywatch*.

From the early 1990s he distanced himself from the film industry, focusing instead on music, motorsports and technology, including work on autonomous vehicles.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Point Break* (1991), Fi1m 82, as Bunker — [page](https://film.one/film/point-break.md)
- *Platoon* (1986), Fi1m 84, as Crawford — [page](https://film.one/film/platoon.md)

## Also known for

- *Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me* (1992), Tommy
- *Born on the Fourth of July* (1989), Aide #3 - VA Hospital
- *Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces* (2014), Tommy
- *Two Moon Junction* (1988), Speed
- *Suburbia* (1984), Jack Diddley

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