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
2025
- IT: Welcome to Derry as General Francis Shaw
- All's Fair as Theodore Baskin
- Dexter: Resurrection as Harry Morgan
2024
- Transformers One as Zeta Prime (voice)
- Drugstore June as Arnold
- Megalopolis as Charles Cothope
2023
- Oppenheimer as Henry Stimson
- Glowzies as Darlus
- Paul T. Goldman as Lt. Newman
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
- Feed as Tom
- The Night Watchmen as Randall
- Can't Buy My Love as Rex
- The Blackcoat's Daughter as Bill
2016
- Animal Kingdom as Detective Andre
- The Shannara Chronicles as Cephelo
- Decommissioned as David Marino
- USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage as Admiral Parnell
- The Dog Lover as Daniel Holloway
2015
- Eden as Coach DaFoe
- Code Black as General Hutch Hutchinson
- Unnatural as Martin Nakos
- Papa Hemingway in Cuba as Santo Trafficante
2014
- Gotham as Frank Gordon
- Lap Dance as Patrick Moore
- Persecuted as John Luther
- State of Affairs as Syd
2013
- Horns as Derrick Perrish
- Beware the Batman as Silver Monkey (voice)
2012
- Django Unchained as Butch Pooch / Ace Speck
- The Legend of Korra as Tonraq (voice)
2011
- Franklin & Bash as Cliff
- Setup as William
- Wilfred as Henry Newman
- The FP as Narrator (voice)
- Arena as Tall Man
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon as Sideswipe (voice)
- All Superheroes Must Die as Rickshaw
- X-Men: First Class as US General
2010
- Hawaii Five-0 as Elliot Connor
- Young Justice as Icicle Sr. (voice)
- Ben 10: Ultimate Alien as Vilgax (voice)
- RED as Gabriel Singer
- Human Target as Warden Cole
- Pound Puppies as Sarge (voice)
- Gun as Detective Rogers
2009
- NCIS: Los Angeles as Sterling Bridges
- FlashForward as James Ermine
- The Unborn as Gordon Beldon
- 2B as Tom Mortlake
- National Lampoon Presents: Endless Bummer as Sam Kramer
- The Christmas Hope as Mark Addison
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
- Ratatouille as Larousse (voice)
- Private Practice as Dr. Gibson
- Sharpshooter as Dillon
- The Warriors: The Phenomenon as Self
- The Warriors: The Way Home as Self
- The Warriors: Battleground as Self
- The Warriors: The Beginning 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 Girl Next Door as Hugo Posh
- The Batman as Black Mask (voice)
- Justice League Unlimited as Carter Hall (voice)
- Blade: Trinity as Ray Cumberland
- American Meltdown as Colonel Boggs
- Ike: Countdown to D-Day as General Omar Bradley
- North Shore as Vincent Colville
- The Survivors Club as Roan Griffin
- The Grid
2003
- Betrayal as Alex Tyler
- Duplex as Chick
- Fear X as Peter
- Peacemakers as Cole Hawkins
- 2 Fast 2 Furious as Agent Markham
2002
- CSI: Miami as Quentin Taylor
- Without a Trace as Lucas Vohland
- The Twilight Zone as Alois Hitler
2001
- Guardian as Detective Carpenter
- Justice League as Lead Manhunter (voice)
- Dying on the Edge as Jackie James
2000
- Strong Medicine as Guy Falls
- Blowback as John Matthew Whitman / Schmidt
- What Lies Beneath as Warren Feur
- The Huntress as Tiny Bellows
- The Huntress as Tiny Bellows
- The Base 2: Guilty as Charged as Lt. Col. Strauss
- Hellraiser: Inferno as Dr. Paul Gregory
1999
- Third Watch as Detective Madjanski
- Rites of Passage as Frank Dabbo
- Double Frame
- D.R.E.A.M. Team as Shawn Murphy
- Born Bad
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
- Robo Warriors as Ray Gibson
- One Good Turn as Simon Jury
- The Phantom as Quill
1995
- Wild Bill as Donnie Lonigan
- Boys on the Side as Alex
- Judge Dredd as Block Warlord (uncredited)
- 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
- Strangers as Bernard (The Last Game)
- The Tigress as Andrei
- Indecency as Mick Clarkson
1991
- Wedlock as Sam
- Session Man as McQueen
- White Fang as Beauty Smith
- Brotherhood of the Gun as Frank Weir
1990
- Fatal Charm as Louis
- Tales from the Darkside: The Movie as Preston (segment ‘Lover’s Vow’)
- 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
- Desperado: The Outlaw Wars as John Sikes
- Silence Like Glass
1987
- Rent-a-Cop as Dancer
1986
- Quiet Cool as Joe Dylanne
- The Clan of the Cave Bear as Creb
- 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
- The Mystic Warrior as Pesla
1983
- The Hitchhiker as Ron
1981
1980
- Windwalker as Windwalker (young)
- Cruising as Gregory
- The Long Riders as Sam Starr
1979
- The Warriors as Ajax
1978
- On the Yard as Larson