James Remar

Known for

Acting

Born

December 31, 1953 (age 72)

Birthplace

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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 (20...

Best known work

Django Unchained

2012

Ratatouille

2007

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

2019

X-Men: First Class

2011

Oppenheimer

2023

Grey's Anatomy

2005

The Vampire Diaries

2009

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

2011

2 Fast 2 Furious

2003

RED

2010

Filmography

2026
The Odyssey
as Tiresias
2026
They Will Kill You
as The Pig's Head (voice)
2025
All's FairTV
as Theodore Baskin (1 episode)
2025
IT: Welcome to DerryTV
as General Francis Shaw (8 episodes)
2025
Dexter: ResurrectionTV
as Harry Morgan (20 episodes)
2024
Megalopolis
as Charles Cothope
2024
Transformers One
as Zeta Prime (voice)
2024
Drugstore June
as Arnold
2023
Glowzies
as Darlus
2023
Oppenheimer
as Henry Stimson
2023
Paul T. GoldmanTV
as Lt. Newman (2 episodes)
2022
The Noel Diary
as Scott Turner
2020
Dead Reckoning
as Agent Cantrell
2020
Tales Behind The Darkside: The Making Of Four Ghoulish Fables
as Himself
2020
Fire Over the Atlantic: The Mystery of TWA Flight 800TV
as Narrator (6 episodes)
2019
The Movies That Made UsTV
as Self (1 episode)
2019
CreepshowTV
as Bateman (1 episode)
2019
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
as 'Bounty Law' - 'Ugly Owl'
2019
City on a HillTV
as Richy Ryan (1 episode)
2018
Speed Kills
as Meyer Lansky
2018
The RookieTV
as Tom Bradford (1 episode)
2018
Magnum P.I.TV
as Captain Buck Greene (6 episodes)
2018
All You Ever Wished For
as Gordon Hutton
2018
YellowstoneTV
as Kyle Fremont (1 episode)
2018
Black LightningTV
as Peter Gambi (58 episodes)