James Remar
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.
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The Odyssey
They Will Kill You
Transformers One
Oppenheimer
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Feed
Gotham
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
X-Men: First Class
The Vampire Diaries
Dexter
Blade: Trinity
The Girl Next Door
2 Fast 2 Furious
Justice League
Full Filmography
All Credits (165)
All's Fair
as Theodore Baskin
IT: Welcome to Derry
as General Francis Shaw
Dexter: Resurrection
as Harry Morgan
Megalopolis
as Charles Cothope
Drugstore June
as Arnold
Glowzies
as Darlus
Paul T. Goldman
as Lt. Newman
The Noel Diary
as Scott Turner
Dead Reckoning
as Agent Cantrell
Tales Behind The Darkside: The Making Of Four Ghoulish Fables
as Himself
Fire Over the Atlantic: The Mystery of TWA Flight 800
as Narrator
The Movies That Made Us
as Self
Creepshow
as Bateman
City on a Hill
as Richy Ryan
Speed Kills
as Meyer Lansky
The Rookie
as Tom Bradford
Magnum P.I.
as Captain Buck Greene
All You Ever Wished For
as Gordon Hutton
Yellowstone
as Kyle Fremont
Black Lightning
as Peter Gambi
The Saint
as Arnold Valecross
The Blackcoat's Daughter
as Bill
The Night Watchmen
as Randall
Can't Buy My Love
as Rex
USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage
as Admiral Parnell
Decommissioned
as David Marino
The Dog Lover
as Daniel Holloway
Animal Kingdom
as Detective Andre
The Shannara Chronicles
as Cephelo
The Shannara Chronicles
as Cephalo
Papa Hemingway in Cuba
as Santo Trafficante
Unnatural
as Martin Nakos
Code Black
as General Hutch Hutchinson
Eden
as Coach DaFoe
Lap Dance
as Patrick Moore
State of Affairs
as Syd
Persecuted
as John Luther
Horns
as Derrick Perrish
Beware the Batman
as Silver Monkey / Mr. Reese (voice)
Beware the Batman
as Silver Monkey (voice)
Django Unchained
as Butch Pooch / Ace Speck
Ben 10: Omniverse
as Vilgax (voice)
The Legend of Korra
as Tonraq (voice)
All Superheroes Must Die
as Rickshaw
Setup
as William
Arena
as Tall Man
Wilfred
as Henry Newman
Franklin & Bash
as Cliff
The FP
as Narrator (voice)
Young Justice
as Icicle Sr. (voice)
RED
as Gabriel Singer
Pound Puppies
as Sarge (voice)
Hawaii Five-0
as Elliot Connor
Gun
as Detective Rogers
Ben 10: Ultimate Alien
as Vilgax (voice)
Human Target
as Warden Cole
The Christmas Hope
as Mark Addison
National Lampoon Presents: Endless Bummer
as Sam Kramer
FlashForward
as James Ermine
NCIS: Los Angeles
as Sterling Bridges
2B
as Tom Mortlake
The Unborn
as Gordon Beldon
Batman: The Brave and the Bold
as Two-Face (voice)
Pineapple Express
as General Bratt
Ben 10: Alien Force
as Vilgax (voice)
Eli Stone
as Salinsky
Sharpshooter
as Dillon
Private Practice
as Dr. Gibson
The Warriors: The Beginning
as Self
The Warriors: Battleground
as Self
The Warriors: The Phenomenon
as Self
Ratatouille
as Larousse (voice)
The Warriors: The Way Home
as Self
Jericho
as Jonah Prowse
Thief
as Agent Patterson
The Unit
as Reece
Criminal Minds
as Tom Benton
Grey's Anatomy
as Jimmy Evans
American Dad!
as Charles Lindbergh Sr. (voice)
Numb3rs
as Randall Priest
Battlestar Galactica
as Meier
The Batman
as Black Mask (voice)
Justice League Unlimited
as Carter Hall (voice)
Justice League Unlimited
as Hawkman / Shadow Thief (voice)
The Grid
as Unknown
North Shore
as Vincent Colville
American Meltdown
as Colonel Boggs
Ike: Countdown to D-Day
as General Omar Bradley
The Survivors Club
as Roan Griffin
Duplex
as Chick
Betrayal
as Alex Tyler
Peacemakers
as Cole Hawkins
Fear X
as Peter
Without a Trace
as Lucas Vohland
CSI: Miami
as Quentin Taylor
The Twilight Zone
as Alois Hitler
Guardian
as Detective Carpenter
Dying on the Edge
as Jackie James
The Base 2: Guilty as Charged
as Lt. Col. Strauss
Hellraiser: Inferno
as Dr. Paul Gregory
The Huntress
as Tiny Bellows
Strong Medicine
as Guy Falls
What Lies Beneath
as Warren Feur
Blowback
as John Matthew Whitman / Schmidt
The Huntress
as Tiny Bellows
Rites of Passage
as Frank Dabbo
D.R.E.A.M. Team
as Shawn Murphy
Third Watch
as Detective Madjanski
Psycho Path
as Self
Born Bad
as Unknown
Psycho
as Patrolman
Inferno
as Dr. Coleman West
Sex and the City
as Richard Wright
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
as Raiden
Total Security
as Unknown
Robo Warriors
as Ray Gibson
7th Heaven
as James Carver
The Phantom
as Quill
The Quest
as Maxie Devine
Nash Bridges
as Mark Lee Page
One Good Turn
as Simon Jury
Wild Bill
as Donnie Lonigan
Judge Dredd
as Block Warlord (uncredited)
Boys on the Side
as Alex
The Surgeon
as Dr. Benjamin Hendricks
Miracle on 34th Street
as Jack Duff
Across the Moon
as Rattlesnake Jim
Renaissance Man
as Captain Tom Murdoch
Confessions of a Hitman
as Bruno Serrano
Fatal Instinct
as Max Shady
Blink
as Thomas Ridgely
The X-Files
as Josef Kobold
Walker, Texas Ranger
as Keith Bolt
The Tigress
as Andrei
Indecency
as Mick Clarkson
Strangers
as Bernard (The Last Game)
Wedlock
as Sam
White Fang
as Beauty Smith
Session Man
as McQueen
Night Visions
as Sergeant Thomas Mackey
Fatal Charm
as Louis
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
as Preston (segment ‘Lover’s Vow’)
Kojak: None So Blind
as Wolfgang Reiger
Drugstore Cowboy
as Gentry
Desperado: The Outlaw Wars
as John Sikes
Silence Like Glass
as Charly
Tales from the Crypt
as Red Buckley
The Dream Team
as Gianelli
Rent-a-Cop
as Dancer
Quiet Cool
as Joe Dylanne
Band of the Hand
as Nestor
The Clan of the Cave Bear
as Creb
The Equalizer
as Tremayne
The Cotton Club
as Dutch Schultz
Miami Vice
as Robbie Cann
The Mystic Warrior
as Pesla
The Hitchhiker
as Ron
48 Hrs.
as Albert Ganz
Partners
as Edward K. Petersen
Hill Street Blues
as Unknown
Windwalker
as Windwalker (young)
The Long Riders
as Sam Starr
Cruising
as Gregory
The Warriors
as Ajax
On the Yard
as Larson