Chris Conlee was born to David and Mary Conlee in The Dalles, Oregon,
on March 5th, 1967. He graduated from Columbia College with a
bachelor's in Cinema in 1992, then joined the U.S. Army for 4 years to
pay for it. While serving in the military, he saved enough money to
start his own film editing company, which he did upon his return to Los
Angeles in 1997. His first "major" film was
Extreme Honor (2001) which stars
Michael Madsen
and
Michael Ironside, and was executive produced by
John Follmer.