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James Remar

Acting · Born December 31, 1953 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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.

Movies with James Remar

• The Odyssey (2026) — Tiresias
• Oppenheimer (2023) — Henry Stimson
• Django Unchained (2012) — Butch Pooch / Ace Speck
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019) — 'Bounty Law' - 'Ugly Owl'
• Ratatouille (2007) — Larousse (voice)
• Transformers One (2024) — Zeta Prime (voice)
• The Girl Next Door (2004) — Hugo Posh
• They Will Kill You (2026) — The Pig's Head (voice)
• Blade: Trinity (2004) — Ray Cumberland
• RED (2010) — Gabriel Singer
• What Lies Beneath (2000) — Warren Feur
• Judge Dredd (1995) — Block Warlord (uncredited)

TV shows with James Remar

• Grey's Anatomy (2005) — Jimmy Evans
• Dexter (2006) — Harry Morgan
• Magnum P.I. (2018) — Captain Buck Greene
• Sex and the City (1998) — Richard Wright
• The Legend of Korra (2012) — Tonraq (voice)
• Black Lightning (2018) — Peter Gambi
• Ben 10: Ultimate Alien (2010) — Vilgax (voice)
• Dexter: Resurrection (2025) — Harry Morgan