James Remar

Known For: Acting
Born: December 31, 1953
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

James Remar

William James Remar (born December 31, 1953) is an American actor. Some of his best known film roles are as Ajax in The Warriors (1979), as homicidal maniac Albert Ganz in 48 Hrs. (1982), as Dutch Schultz in The Cotton Club (1984), and as Lord Raiden in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997). He has had smaller roles in many other notable films, including Drugstore Cowboy (1989), Boys on the Side (1995), Judge Dredd (1995), Psycho (1998), What Lies Beneath (2000), 2 Fast 2 Furious (2002), Blade: Trinity (2004), Ratatouille (2007), Pineapple Express (2008), RED (2010), X-Men: First Class (2011), Django Unchained (2012), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), Oppenheimer (2023), and Megalopolis (2024). He was originally cast as Corporal Hicks in Aliens (1986) before being replaced by Michael Biehn. On television, Remar's recurring roles include Richard Wright, the on-off tycoon boyfriend of Sa…

Filmography

The Odyssey

2026 · Tiresias

They Will Kill You

2026 · The Pig's Head (voice)

All's Fair

2025 · Theodore Baskin

IT: Welcome to Derry

2025 · General Francis Shaw

Dexter: Resurrection

2025 · Harry Morgan

Megalopolis

2024 · Charles Cothope

Transformers One

2024 · Zeta Prime (voice)

Drugstore June

2024 · Arnold

Glowzies

2023 · Darlus

Oppenheimer

2023 · Henry Stimson

Paul T. Goldman

2023 · Lt. Newman

The Noel Diary

2022 · Scott Turner

Dead Reckoning

2020 · Agent Cantrell

Tales Behind The Darkside: The Making Of Four Ghoulish Fables

Tales Behind The Darkside: The Making Of Four Ghoulish Fables

2020 · Himself

Fire Over the Atlantic: The Mystery of TWA Flight 800

2020 · Narrator

The Movies That Made Us

2019 · Self

Creepshow

2019 · Bateman

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

2019 · 'Bounty Law' - 'Ugly Owl'

City on a Hill

2019 · Richy Ryan

Speed Kills

2018 · Meyer Lansky

The Rookie

2018 · Tom Bradford

Magnum P.I.

2018 · Captain Buck Greene

All You Ever Wished For

2018 · Gordon Hutton

Yellowstone

2018 · Kyle Fremont

Black Lightning

2018 · Peter Gambi

The Saint

2017 · Arnold Valecross

Feed

2017 · Tom

The Blackcoat's Daughter

2017 · Bill

The Night Watchmen

2017 · Randall

Can't Buy My Love

2017 · Rex

USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage

2016 · Admiral Parnell

Decommissioned

2016 · David Marino

The Dog Lover

2016 · Daniel Holloway

Animal Kingdom

2016 · Detective Andre

The Shannara Chronicles

2016 · Cephelo, Cephalo

Papa Hemingway in Cuba

2015 · Santo Trafficante

Unnatural

2015 · Martin Nakos

Code Black

2015 · General Hutch Hutchinson

Eden

2015 · Coach DaFoe

Lap Dance

2014 · Patrick Moore

State of Affairs

2014 · Syd

Gotham

2014 · Frank Gordon

Persecuted

2014 · John Luther

Horns

2013 · Derrick Perrish

Beware the Batman

2013 · Silver Monkey (voice), Silver Monkey / Mr. Reese (voice)

Django Unchained

2012 · Butch Pooch / Ace Speck

Ben 10: Omniverse

2012 · Vilgax (voice)

The Legend of Korra

2012 · Tonraq (voice)

All Superheroes Must Die

2011 · Rickshaw

Setup

2011 · William

Arena

2011 · Tall Man

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

2011 · Sideswipe (voice)

Wilfred

2011 · Henry Newman

X-Men: First Class

2011 · US General

Franklin & Bash

2011 · Cliff

The FP

2011 · Narrator (voice)

Young Justice

2010 · Icicle Sr. (voice)

RED

2010 · Gabriel Singer

Pound Puppies

2010 · Sarge (voice)

Hawaii Five-0

2010 · Elliot Connor

Gun

2010 · Detective Rogers

Ben 10: Ultimate Alien

2010 · Vilgax (voice)

Human Target

2010 · Warden Cole

The Christmas Hope

2009 · Mark Addison

National Lampoon Presents: Endless Bummer

2009 · Sam Kramer

FlashForward

2009 · James Ermine

NCIS: Los Angeles

2009 · Sterling Bridges

The Vampire Diaries

2009 · Giuseppe Salvatore

2B

2009 · Tom Mortlake

The Unborn

2009 · Gordon Beldon

Batman: The Brave and the Bold

2008 · Two-Face (voice)

Pineapple Express

2008 · General Bratt

Ben 10: Alien Force

2008 · Vilgax (voice)

Eli Stone

2008 · Salinsky

Sharpshooter

2007 · Dillon

Private Practice

2007 · Dr. Gibson

The Warriors: The Beginning

2007 · Self

The Warriors: Battleground

2007 · Self

The Warriors: The Phenomenon

2007 · Self

Ratatouille

2007 · Larousse (voice)

The Warriors: The Way Home

2007 · Self

Dexter

2006 · Harry Morgan

Jericho

2006 · Jonah Prowse

Thief

2006 · Agent Patterson

The Unit

2006 · Reece

Criminal Minds

2005 · Tom Benton

Grey's Anatomy

2005 · Jimmy Evans

American Dad!

2005 · Charles Lindbergh Sr. (voice)

Numb3rs

2005 · Randall Priest

Blade: Trinity

2004 · Ray Cumberland

Battlestar Galactica

2004 · Meier

The Batman

2004 · Black Mask (voice)

Justice League Unlimited

2004 · Carter Hall (voice), Hawkman / Shadow Thief (voice)

The Grid

2004

North Shore

2004 · Vincent Colville

American Meltdown

2004 · Colonel Boggs

Ike: Countdown to D-Day

2004 · General Omar Bradley

The Girl Next Door

2004 · Hugo Posh

The Survivors Club

2004 · Roan Griffin

Duplex

2003 · Chick

Betrayal

2003 · Alex Tyler

Peacemakers

2003 · Cole Hawkins

2 Fast 2 Furious

2003 · Agent Markham

Fear X

2003 · Peter

Without a Trace

2002 · Lucas Vohland

CSI: Miami

2002 · Quentin Taylor

The Twilight Zone

2002 · Alois Hitler

Justice League

2001 · Lead Manhunter (voice)

Guardian

2001 · Detective Carpenter

Dying on the Edge

2001 · Jackie James

The Base 2: Guilty as Charged

2000 · Lt. Col. Strauss

Hellraiser: Inferno

2000 · Dr. Paul Gregory

The Huntress

2000 · Tiny Bellows

Strong Medicine

2000 · Guy Falls

What Lies Beneath

2000 · Warren Feur

Blowback

2000 · John Matthew Whitman / Schmidt

The Huntress

2000 · Tiny Bellows

Double Frame

1999

Rites of Passage

1999 · Frank Dabbo

D.R.E.A.M. Team

1999 · Shawn Murphy

Third Watch

1999 · Detective Madjanski

Psycho Path

1999 · Self

Born Bad

1999

Psycho

1998 · Patrolman

Inferno

1998 · Dr. Coleman West

Sex and the City

1998 · Richard Wright

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation

1997 · Raiden

Total Security

1997

Robo Warriors

1996 · Ray Gibson

7th Heaven

1996 · James Carver

The Phantom

1996 · Quill

The Quest

1996 · Maxie Devine

Nash Bridges

1996 · Mark Lee Page

One Good Turn

1996 · Simon Jury

Wild Bill

1995 · Donnie Lonigan

Judge Dredd

1995 · Block Warlord (uncredited)

Boys on the Side

1995 · Alex

The Surgeon

1995 · Dr. Benjamin Hendricks

Miracle on 34th Street

1994 · Jack Duff

Across the Moon

1994 · Rattlesnake Jim

Renaissance Man

1994 · Captain Tom Murdoch

Confessions of a Hitman

1994 · Bruno Serrano

Fatal Instinct

1993 · Max Shady

Blink

1993 · Thomas Ridgely

The X-Files

1993 · Josef Kobold

Walker, Texas Ranger

1993 · Keith Bolt

The Tigress

1992 · Andrei

Indecency

1992 · Mick Clarkson

Strangers

1992 · Bernard (The Last Game)

Brotherhood of the Gun

Brotherhood of the Gun

1991 · Frank Weir

Wedlock

1991 · Sam

White Fang

1991 · Beauty Smith

Session Man

1991 · McQueen

Night Visions

1990 · Sergeant Thomas Mackey

Fatal Charm

1990 · Louis

Tales from the Darkside: The Movie

1990 · Preston (segment ‘Lover’s Vow’)

Kojak: None So Blind

1990 · Wolfgang Reiger

Drugstore Cowboy

1989 · Gentry

Desperado: The Outlaw Wars

1989 · John Sikes

Silence Like Glass

1989

Tales from the Crypt

1989 · Red Buckley

The Dream Team

1989 · Gianelli

Rent-a-Cop

1987 · Dancer

Quiet Cool

1986 · Joe Dylanne

Band of the Hand

1986 · Nestor

The Clan of the Cave Bear

1986 · Creb

The Equalizer

1985 · Tremayne

The Cotton Club

1984 · Dutch Schultz

Miami Vice

1984 · Robbie Cann

The Mystic Warrior

1984 · Pesla

The Hitchhiker

1983 · Ron

48 Hrs.

1982 · Albert Ganz

Partners

1982 · Edward K. Petersen

Hill Street Blues

1981

Windwalker

1980 · Windwalker (young)

The Long Riders

1980 · Sam Starr

Cruising

1980 · Gregory

The Warriors

1979 · Ajax

On the Yard

1978 · Larson

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