Cast
James Remar
Acting
Cast
James Remar
Known for
Acting
Born
1953-12-31
From
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Also known as William James Remar
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.
★7.8
MOVIE2026
The Odyssey
as Tiresias
★8.0
MOVIE2023
Oppenheimer
as Henry Stimson
★7.0
MOVIE2026
They Will Kill You
as The Pig's Head (voice)
★7.8
MOVIE2007
Ratatouille
as Larousse (voice)
★8.2
MOVIE2012
Django Unchained
as Butch Pooch / Ace Speck
★7.4
MOVIE2019
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
as 'Bounty Law' - 'Ugly Owl'
★6.8
MOVIE2004
The Girl Next Door
as Hugo Posh
★8.0
MOVIE2024
Transformers One
as Zeta Prime (voice)
★6.7
MOVIE2010
RED
as Gabriel Singer
★6.7
MOVIE1982
48 Hrs.
as Albert Ganz
★7.7
MOVIE1979
The Warriors
as Ajax
★5.9
MOVIE1995
Judge Dredd
as Block Warlord (uncredited)
★5.9
MOVIE2004
Blade: Trinity
as Ray Cumberland
★4.6
MOVIE1997
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
as Raiden
★6.4
MOVIE2000
What Lies Beneath
as Warren Feur
★6.8
MOVIE1994
Miracle on 34th Street
as Jack Duff
★6.6
MOVIE2008
Pineapple Express
as General Bratt
★5.2
MOVIE2024
Megalopolis
as Charles Cothope
★7.0
MOVIE1989
Silence Like Glass
★6.6
MOVIE1980
Cruising
as Gregory
★6.3
MOVIE2013
Horns
as Derrick Perrish
★5.9
MOVIE2017
The Blackcoat's Daughter
as Bill
★6.1
MOVIE2003
Duplex
as Chick
★5.1
MOVIE1998
Psycho
as Patrolman
★5.2
MOVIE2004
American Meltdown
as Colonel Boggs
★5.2
MOVIE2009
The Unborn
as Gordon Beldon
★6.5
MOVIE1984
The Cotton Club
as Dutch Schultz
★6.2
MOVIE2011
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
as Sideswipe (voice)
★5.9
MOVIE2016
USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage
as Admiral Parnell
★6.4
MOVIE1995
Boys on the Side
as Alex
★6.8
MOVIE1991
White Fang
as Beauty Smith
★5.3
MOVIE1996
The Phantom
as Quill
★6.1
MOVIE1994
Renaissance Man
as Captain Tom Murdoch
★6.2
MOVIE1996
The Quest
as Maxie Devine
★5.4
MOVIE2017
The Saint
as Arnold Valecross
★5.2
MOVIE2011
Arena
as Tall Man
★7.1
MOVIE1989
Drugstore Cowboy
as Gentry
★6.7
MOVIE1980
The Long Riders
as Sam Starr
★6.0
MOVIE1999
Double Frame
★5.4
MOVIE2018
Speed Kills
as Meyer Lansky
★6.6
MOVIE2004
Ike: Countdown to D-Day
as General Omar Bradley
★6.3
MOVIE2022
The Noel Diary
as Scott Turner
★4.2
MOVIE2014
Lap Dance
as Patrick Moore
MOVIE2012
Ben 10: Omniverse
as Vilgax (voice)
★5.0
MOVIE2017
The Night Watchmen
as Randall
★5.3
MOVIE1986
The Clan of the Cave Bear
as Creb
★6.1
MOVIE1989
The Dream Team
as Gianelli
★6.5
MOVIE2003
2 Fast 2 Furious
as Agent Markham
★5.7
MOVIE2020
Dead Reckoning
as Agent Cantrell
★6.0
MOVIE2017
Can't Buy My Love
as Rex
★5.5
MOVIE1993
Fatal Instinct
as Max Shady
★4.6
MOVIE2007
Sharpshooter
as Dillon
★4.9
MOVIE2011
Setup
as William
★5.7
MOVIE1995
Wild Bill
as Donnie Lonigan
★6.5
MOVIE1991
Brotherhood of the Gun
as Frank Weir
★5.4
MOVIE2000
Hellraiser: Inferno
as Dr. Paul Gregory
★5.8
MOVIE2001
Guardian
as Detective Carpenter
★6.2
MOVIE1990
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
as Preston (segment ‘Lover’s Vow’)
★5.5
MOVIE1992
Indecency
as Mick Clarkson
★4.2
MOVIE2003
Betrayal
as Alex Tyler
★5.3
MOVIE1999
Born Bad
★4.4
MOVIE2011
All Superheroes Must Die
as Rickshaw
★6.2
MOVIE1986
Band of the Hand
as Nestor
★5.4
MOVIE2015
Papa Hemingway in Cuba
as Santo Trafficante
★5.2
MOVIE1995
The Surgeon
as Dr. Benjamin Hendricks
★5.8
MOVIE1991
Wedlock
as Sam
★5.2
MOVIE2010
Gun
as Detective Rogers
★6.3
MOVIE1990
Kojak: None So Blind
as Wolfgang Reiger
★4.8
MOVIE1987
Rent-a-Cop
as Dancer
★6.3
MOVIE2016
The Dog Lover
as Daniel Holloway
★5.4
MOVIE1999
D.R.E.A.M. Team
as Shawn Murphy
★5.7
MOVIE2024
Drugstore June
as Arnold
★6.9
MOVIE2017
Feed
as Tom
★6.8
MOVIE1986
Quiet Cool
as Joe Dylanne
★3.2
MOVIE2016
Decommissioned
as David Marino
★5.5
MOVIE1982
Partners
as Edward K. Petersen
★4.0
MOVIE1994
Across the Moon
as Rattlesnake Jim
★4.2
MOVIE2014
Persecuted
as John Luther
★5.5
MOVIE1996
Robo Warriors
as Ray Gibson
★6.0
MOVIE2007
The Warriors: The Way Home
as Self
★5.2
MOVIE2015
Eden
as Coach DaFoe
★4.7
MOVIE2018
All You Ever Wished For
as Gordon Hutton
★6.0
MOVIE1978
On the Yard
as Larson
★4.6
MOVIE1990
Night Visions
as Sergeant Thomas Mackey
★7.0
MOVIE2000
The Huntress
as Tiny Bellows
★7.3
MOVIE2004
The Survivors Club
as Roan Griffin
★6.1
MOVIE1993
Blink
as Thomas Ridgely
★4.3
MOVIE1992
The Tigress
as Andrei
★5.5
MOVIE1990
Fatal Charm
as Louis
★6.0
MOVIE2001
Dying on the Edge
as Jackie James
★6.1
MOVIE1991
Session Man
as McQueen
★4.6
MOVIE2000
The Base 2: Guilty as Charged
as Lt. Col. Strauss
★9.0
MOVIE1989
Desperado: The Outlaw Wars
as John Sikes
★4.8
MOVIE2009
National Lampoon Presents: Endless Bummer
as Sam Kramer
★7.2
MOVIE1999
Psycho Path
as Self
★4.8
MOVIE2000
Blowback
as John Matthew Whitman / Schmidt
★5.6
MOVIE1999
Rites of Passage
as Frank Dabbo
★4.1
MOVIE2015
Unnatural
as Martin Nakos
★4.3
MOVIE1998
Inferno
as Dr. Coleman West
★7.0
MOVIE2007
The Warriors: Battleground
as Self
★4.8
MOVIE1996
One Good Turn
as Simon Jury
★4.9
MOVIE2011
The FP
as Narrator (voice)
★6.3
MOVIE1980
Windwalker
as Windwalker (young)
★5.8
MOVIE2003
Fear X
as Peter
★6.0
MOVIE2007
The Warriors: The Beginning
as Self
★6.3
MOVIE1994
Confessions of a Hitman
as Bruno Serrano
★6.2
MOVIE2009
The Christmas Hope
as Mark Addison
★3.2
MOVIE1992
Strangers
as Bernard (The Last Game)
★7.3
MOVIE2011
X-Men: First Class
as US General
★6.0
MOVIE2007
The Warriors: The Phenomenon
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE2023
Glowzies
as Darlus
MOVIE2020
Tales Behind The Darkside: The Making Of Four Ghoulish Fables
as Himself
★5.0
MOVIE2009
2B
as Tom Mortlake