James Remar
Born: 1953-12-31 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Known For: Acting
Biography
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 Samantha in Sex and the City (2001 - 2004), Harry Morgan in Dexter (2006 - 2013) and Dexter: Resurrection (2025 - present), the voice of Vilgax in Ben 10 (2009 - 2012), Tonraq in The Legend of Korra (2013 - 2014), and Peter Gambi in Black Lightning (2018 - 2021). He also voices Executor Hideo in the Destiny video game series. Remar has been married to Atsuko Remar since 1984. They have two children.
Filmography
2026
- The Odyssey as Tiresias
- They Will Kill You as The Pig's Head (voice)
2025
- IT: Welcome to Derry as General Francis Shaw
- Dexter: Resurrection as Harry Morgan
- All's Fair as Theodore Baskin
2024
- Transformers One as Zeta Prime (voice)
- Megalopolis as Charles Cothope
- Drugstore June as Arnold
2023
- Oppenheimer as Henry Stimson
- Paul T. Goldman as Lt. Newman
- Glowzies as Darlus
2022
- The Noel Diary as Scott Turner
2020
- Dead Reckoning as Agent Cantrell
- Fire Over the Atlantic: The Mystery of TWA Flight 800 as Narrator
- Tales Behind The Darkside: The Making Of Four Ghoulish Fables as Himself
2019
- Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood as 'Bounty Law' - 'Ugly Owl'
- Creepshow as Bateman
- City on a Hill as Richy Ryan
- The Movies That Made Us as Self
2018
- The Rookie as Tom Bradford
- Yellowstone as Kyle Fremont
- Magnum P.I. as Captain Buck Greene
- Black Lightning as Peter Gambi
- Speed Kills as Meyer Lansky
- All You Ever Wished For as Gordon Hutton
2017
- The Saint as Arnold Valecross
- The Blackcoat's Daughter as Bill
- Can't Buy My Love as Rex
- Feed as Tom
- The Night Watchmen as Randall
2016
- Animal Kingdom as Detective Andre
- The Shannara Chronicles as Cephelo
- USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage as Admiral Parnell
- The Dog Lover as Daniel Holloway
- Decommissioned as David Marino
2015
- Code Black as General Hutch Hutchinson
- Eden as Coach DaFoe
- Unnatural as Martin Nakos
- Papa Hemingway in Cuba as Santo Trafficante
2014
- Gotham as Frank Gordon
- Lap Dance as Patrick Moore
- State of Affairs as Syd
- Persecuted as John Luther
2013
- Beware the Batman as Silver Monkey (voice)
- Horns as Derrick Perrish
2012
- The Legend of Korra as Tonraq (voice)
- Django Unchained as Butch Pooch / Ace Speck
- Ben 10: Omniverse as Vilgax (voice)
2011
- Franklin & Bash as Cliff
- Wilfred as Henry Newman
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon as Sideswipe (voice)
- Arena as Tall Man
- Setup as William
- The FP as Narrator (voice)
- X-Men: First Class as US General
- All Superheroes Must Die as Rickshaw
2010
- Hawaii Five-0 as Elliot Connor
- Young Justice as Icicle Sr. (voice)
- Ben 10: Ultimate Alien as Vilgax (voice)
- Human Target as Warden Cole
- Pound Puppies as Sarge (voice)
- RED as Gabriel Singer
- Gun as Detective Rogers
2009
- The Vampire Diaries as Giuseppe Salvatore
- NCIS: Los Angeles as Sterling Bridges
- FlashForward as James Ermine
- The Unborn as Gordon Beldon
- National Lampoon Presents: Endless Bummer as Sam Kramer
- The Christmas Hope as Mark Addison
- 2B as Tom Mortlake
2008
- Batman: The Brave and the Bold as Two-Face (voice)
- Ben 10: Alien Force as Vilgax (voice)
- Eli Stone as Salinsky
- Pineapple Express as General Bratt
2007
- Private Practice as Dr. Gibson
- Ratatouille as Larousse (voice)
- Sharpshooter as Dillon
- The Warriors: The Way Home as Self
- The Warriors: Battleground as Self
- The Warriors: The Beginning as Self
- The Warriors: The Phenomenon as Self
2005
- Grey's Anatomy as Jimmy Evans
- Criminal Minds as Tom Benton
- American Dad! as Charles Lindbergh Sr. (voice)
- Numb3rs as Randall Priest
2004
- Battlestar Galactica as Meier
- The Batman as Black Mask (voice)
- Justice League Unlimited as Carter Hall (voice)
- The Girl Next Door as Hugo Posh
- Blade: Trinity as Ray Cumberland
- North Shore as Vincent Colville
- The Grid
- American Meltdown as Colonel Boggs
- Ike: Countdown to D-Day as General Omar Bradley
- The Survivors Club as Roan Griffin
2003
- Duplex as Chick
- Peacemakers as Cole Hawkins
- 2 Fast 2 Furious as Agent Markham
- Fear X as Peter
- Betrayal as Alex Tyler
2002
- CSI: Miami as Quentin Taylor
- Without a Trace as Lucas Vohland
- The Twilight Zone as Alois Hitler
2001
- Justice League as Lead Manhunter (voice)
- Guardian as Detective Carpenter
- Dying on the Edge as Jackie James
2000
- Strong Medicine as Guy Falls
- The Huntress as Tiny Bellows
- What Lies Beneath as Warren Feur
- Hellraiser: Inferno as Dr. Paul Gregory
- Blowback as John Matthew Whitman / Schmidt
- The Huntress as Tiny Bellows
- The Base 2: Guilty as Charged as Lt. Col. Strauss
1999
- Third Watch as Detective Madjanski
- Born Bad
- Psycho Path as Self
- D.R.E.A.M. Team as Shawn Murphy
- Double Frame
- Rites of Passage as Frank Dabbo
1998
- Sex and the City as Richard Wright
- Psycho as Patrolman
- Inferno as Dr. Coleman West
1997
- Mortal Kombat: Annihilation as Raiden
- Total Security
1996
- Nash Bridges as Mark Lee Page
- 7th Heaven as James Carver
- The Quest as Maxie Devine
- The Phantom as Quill
- Robo Warriors as Ray Gibson
- One Good Turn as Simon Jury
1995
- Judge Dredd as Block Warlord (uncredited)
- Boys on the Side as Alex
- Wild Bill as Donnie Lonigan
- The Surgeon as Dr. Benjamin Hendricks
1994
- Miracle on 34th Street as Jack Duff
- Renaissance Man as Captain Tom Murdoch
- Across the Moon as Rattlesnake Jim
- Confessions of a Hitman as Bruno Serrano
1993
- The X-Files as Josef Kobold
- Walker, Texas Ranger as Keith Bolt
- Fatal Instinct as Max Shady
- Blink as Thomas Ridgely
1992
- The Tigress as Andrei
- Indecency as Mick Clarkson
- Strangers as Bernard (The Last Game)
1991
- White Fang as Beauty Smith
- Wedlock as Sam
- Session Man as McQueen
- Brotherhood of the Gun as Frank Weir
1990
- Tales from the Darkside: The Movie as Preston (segment ‘Lover’s Vow’)
- Fatal Charm as Louis
- Night Visions as Sergeant Thomas Mackey
- Kojak: None So Blind as Wolfgang Reiger
1989
- Tales from the Crypt as Red Buckley
- Drugstore Cowboy as Gentry
- The Dream Team as Gianelli
- Silence Like Glass
- Desperado: The Outlaw Wars as John Sikes
1987
- Rent-a-Cop as Dancer
1986
- The Clan of the Cave Bear as Creb
- Quiet Cool as Joe Dylanne
- Band of the Hand as Nestor
1985
- The Equalizer as Tremayne
1984
- Miami Vice as Robbie Cann
- The Cotton Club as Dutch Schultz
- The Mystic Warrior as Pesla
1983
- The Hitchhiker as Ron
1981
1980
- Cruising as Gregory
- The Long Riders as Sam Starr
- Windwalker as Windwalker (young)
1979
- The Warriors as Ajax
1978
- On the Yard as Larson