James Remar

Acting · 3.8 popularity

Age

Movies

113

Born: December 31, 1953
From: 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 (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.

Works

113 films

The Odyssey

20268.0

Oppenheimer

20238.0

Django Unchained

20128.2

Ratatouille

20077.8

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

20197.4

Transformers One

20248.0

Blade: Trinity

20045.9

They Will Kill You

20267.0

The Girl Next Door

20046.8

RED

20106.7

Judge Dredd

19955.9

The Warriors

19797.7

48 Hrs.

19826.7

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation

19974.6

The Unborn

20095.2

Pineapple Express

20086.6

Megalopolis

20245.2

What Lies Beneath

20006.4

The Phantom

19965.3

White Fang

19916.8

The Quest

19966.2

USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage

20165.9

Miracle on 34th Street

19946.8

Duplex

20036.1

Psycho

19985.1

Cruising

19806.6

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

20116.2

Horns

20136.3

Boys on the Side

19956.4

Speed Kills

20185.4

The Blackcoat's Daughter

20175.9

Tales from the Darkside: The Movie

19906.2

The Long Riders

19806.7

Wild Bill

19955.7

The Cotton Club

19846.5

Drugstore Cowboy

19897.1

Lap Dance

20144.2

Hellraiser: Inferno

20005.4

The Noel Diary

20226.3

2 Fast 2 Furious

20036.5

Silence Like Glass

19897.0

Renaissance Man

19946.1

Setup

20114.9

The Saint

20175.4

Fatal Instinct

19935.5

Rent-a-Cop

19874.8

American Meltdown

20045.2

Arena

20115.2

The Dream Team

19896.1

Double Frame

19996.0

The Clan of the Cave Bear

19865.3

Wedlock

19915.8

Gun

20105.2

Ike: Countdown to D-Day

20046.6

Can't Buy My Love

20176.0

Guardian

20015.8

The Night Watchmen

20175.0

National Lampoon Presents: Endless Bummer

20094.8

Dead Reckoning

20205.7

The Dog Lover

20166.3

Sharpshooter

20074.6

Band of the Hand

19866.2

Born Bad

19995.3

Fear X

20035.8

Indecency

19925.5

Betrayal

20034.2

Ben 10: Omniverse

2012

Eden

20155.2

Robo Warriors

19965.4

Feed

20176.9

The Surgeon

19955.1

Decommissioned

20163.2

Brotherhood of the Gun

19916.5

Papa Hemingway in Cuba

20155.4

Blink

19936.1

Quiet Cool

19866.8

Drugstore June

20245.7

Blowback

20004.7

X-Men: First Class

20117.3

Unnatural

20154.0

Night Visions

19904.6

The Warriors: The Way Home

20076.0

The Base 2: Guilty as Charged

20004.6

The Warriors: The Phenomenon

20076.0

Persecuted

20144.2

The Tigress

19924.3

The Warriors: The Beginning

20076.0

Desperado: The Outlaw Wars

19899.0

Partners

19825.5

All You Ever Wished For

20184.7

Windwalker

19806.3

Fatal Charm

19905.5

Kojak: None So Blind

19906.3

D.R.E.A.M. Team

19995.4

All Superheroes Must Die

20114.3

On the Yard

19786.0

Confessions of a Hitman

19946.3

Rites of Passage

19995.6

The Warriors: Battleground

20077.0

Inferno

19984.3

Strangers

19923.2

The FP

20114.9

The Huntress

20007.0

One Good Turn

19964.8

Psycho Path

19997.2

The Christmas Hope

20096.2

Session Man

19916.1

The Survivors Club

20047.3

Tales Behind The Darkside: The Making Of Four Ghoulish Fables

2020

Dying on the Edge

20016.0

Across the Moon

19944.0

20095.0

Glowzies

20236.0