Early in his filmography, Chris Reilly had second billing behind Julian Ovenden in his first feature British Independent film "Allies" (2014) by Happy Hour Films – a Bristol-based production company and distributed in the UK and the US (February 2015) By EOne, and a supporting role in Working Title's studio film "Everest" (2015), as Klev Schoening, alongside Jake Gyllenhaal and Keira Knightley in the true story of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster (Klev was the nephew of mountaineer Pete Schoening).