Skip Schwink

Skip Schwink

An actor and filmmaker known for the A24/Plan B produced Minari, directed by Lee Isaac Chung and starring Steven Yeun, which won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award for Dramatic Feature at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, as well as for the family comedy adventure feature film C.I.Ape, about the world's first chimpanzee secret agent, released by Lionsgate in 2021, where he appears as the supervillain known as Alpha Dog, and the family comedy/drama Breaking Them Up in which he co-stars alongside Kellen Coleman and Steven Schneider. Skip also stars opposite Dennis Quaid in the feature biopic Reagan where he portrays the 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter.

A former student of the Upright Citizens Brigade and Groundlings improv and sketch schools in Los Angeles, Skip has performed at some of the worlds most famous comedy clubs including The Comedy Store and The Laugh Factory. His comedic talents are on full display in C.I.Ape.

Movies for Skip Schwink...

Reagan
Title: Reagan
Character: Jimmy Carter
Released: August 30, 2024
Type: Movie
A drama based on the life of Ronald Reagan, from his childhood to his time in the oval office.
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Guardians of Time
Title: Guardians of Time
Character: Jason
Released: March 16, 2023
Type: Movie
One day, in the family manor, four cousins discover a passage to a mysterious world. Trapped in this unearthed land, the Kingdom of Keoherus, they must confront the Guardian of Time and face dark forces and beast to hopefully get home.
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Title: Tulsa King
Character: Guard #2
Released: November 13, 2022
Type: TV
Just after he is released from prison after 25 years, New York mafia capo Dwight “The General” Manfredi is unceremoniously exiled by his boss to set up shop in Tulsa, Okla. Realizing that his mob family may not have his best interests in mind, Dwight slowly builds a “crew” from a group of unlikely characters, to help him establish a new criminal empire in a place that to him might as well be another planet.
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C.I.Ape
Title: C.I.Ape
Character: Alpha Dog
Released: March 17, 2022
Type: Movie
When a criminal plot is discovered, the C.I.A. turns to its first ever ape, their most unique operative, to foil the plot from the inside.
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Joey and Ella
Title: Joey and Ella
Released: July 27, 2021
Type: Movie
When a baby kangaroo gets accidentally swept up in a jewelry heist, she becomes separated from her mother for the first time in her young life. Alone and frightened, a worldly teenage girl Ella, who also knows the pain of losing her mother, discovers her and nurses Joey back to health. However, when Joey is falsely implicated in the robbery, Ella has to work quickly to reunite her with her mother before shes either captured by the bumbling jewel thieves or taken into custody by a determined detective hot on their trail.
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Ape Canyon
Title: Ape Canyon
Character: Franklin
Released: April 16, 2021
Type: Movie
Cal Piker hasn’t seen his sister Samantha since their mother’s funeral, so when he interrupts her English lecture one morning with a proposal - a week out in the woods of Oregon, looking for Bigfoot in the legendary 'Ape Canyon' - she is more than a little surprised. But it’s a dangerous thing to be led around by Cal, an irresponsible, frustratingly likable kid brother, enthusiastic to the point of irrationality to find Bigfoot for himself. For Cal, this is not a matter of legend. This is not just some adventure. If Samantha doesn’t stop him, Cal will either find Bigfoot or die trying.
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Minari
Title: Minari
Character: Doctor
Released: February 12, 2021
Type: Movie
A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.
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The Sneak Over
Title: The Sneak Over
Character: Mr. Blevins
Released: December 30, 2020
Type: Movie
It's the summer before fifth grade and Henry Hudson hasn't found his place in the world. Then he meets a group of immature film geeks who give him the courage to lead a battle against the neighborhood bullies and finally become one of the guys.
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Breaking Them Up
Title: Breaking Them Up
Character: Frank
Released: June 11, 2020
Type: Movie
Tired of his parents’ constant bickering, 15 year old Damien is certain they’re all wrong for each other – he would know, he’s a relationship expert. Damien and his best friend Erin have a side hustle coupling-up classmates for the right price. So when Damien discovers his parents may have had a shotgunning wedding, he convinces Erin to turn their efforts toward finding his parents new partners...
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C.I.Ape: Mission Devious
Title: C.I.Ape: Mission Devious
Character: Alpha Dog
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Plot unknown. Writer Skip Schwink has noted that it has a notably different tone to the first C.I.Ape movie.