Brion James

Acting · 2.5 popularity

Age

Movies

116

Born: February 20, 1945 – August 7, 1999
From: Redlands, California, USA

Biography

Brion Howard James (February 20, 1945 – August 7, 1999) was an American character actor. Known for playing the character of Leon Kowalski in the movie Blade Runner, James portrayed a variety of colorful roles in well-known American films such as 48 Hrs., Another 48 Hours, Tango & Cash, Silverado, Red Heat, The Player and The Fifth Element. James' commanding screen presence and formidable physique at 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) tall usually resulted in his casting as a heavy, appearing more frequently in lower budget horror and action films throughout the 1980s and 1990s. James appeared in more than 100 films before he died of a heart attack aged 54. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brion James, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

116 films

The Fifth Element

19977.6

Blade Runner

19827.9

Tango & Cash

19896.5

Red Heat

19886.2

48 Hrs.

19826.7

The Player

19927.2

Striking Distance

19935.9

Enemy Mine

19857.0

Silverado

19857.0

Another 48 Hrs.

19906.0

Nemesis

19925.4

Hard Times

19756.8

The Postman Always Rings Twice

19816.5

Flesh + Blood

19856.6

Red Scorpion

19886.0

Cherry 2000

19876.0

Armed and Dangerous

19865.7

The Jazz Singer

19805.9

Nickelodeon

19766.2

Southern Comfort

19816.9

Steel Dawn

19875.0

The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez

19837.0

The Horror Show

19895.4

D.O.A.

19886.3

Crimewave

19855.5

Blue Sunshine

19775.7

Dirt Merchant

19993.2

Scanner Cop

19945.7

Nightmare at Noon

19884.7

Radioland Murders

19945.9

Knight Rider 2010

19944.7

Evil Obsession

19965.0

A Breed Apart

19845.8

KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park

19785.2

Rio Diablo

19935.0

Wholly Moses

19804.8

Hear No Evil

19825.7

Precious Find

19965.4

Corvette Summer

19785.5

Treasure of Matecumbe

19766.5

Harry and Walter Go to New York

19765.7

F.T.W.

19944.7

Bound for Glory

19766.9

Showdown

19935.8

Amazing Stories

19866.2

Snide and Prejudice

19976.3

Cabin Boy

19945.2

Brain Smasher... A Love Story

19935.2

New Line: Independent Legacies

2026

Sketch Artist II: Hands That See

19956.0

The Gambler: The Adventure Continues

19837.0

The Wrong Guys

19885.7

American Strays

19965.8

Future Shock

19944.0

Love Among Thieves

19876.2

Time Runner

19934.3

In God's Hands

19985.0

The Companion

19945.3

Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.

19815.1

Enid Is Sleeping

19904.9

Z-TV

1989

Nature of the Beast

19955.9

Steel Frontier

19954.8

Trouble in High Timber Country

19807.0

Wishman

19925.8

Brown's Requiem

19984.5

Cyberjack

19955.2

Conquest of the Earth

19806.5

Mom

19905.4

The Invasion of Johnson County

19766.6

Desperado: The Outlaw Wars

19899.0

Bombshell

19974.1

The Operator

20004.1

The Dark

19935.2

Black Sea 213

19985.0

The Kansas City Massacre

19755.8

Dead Man Walking

19883.6

Farewell, My Love

20004.2

Kai Rabe gegen die Vatikankiller

19985.5

The Underground

19975.3

Black Magic

19924.1

Street Asylum

19905.1

Indecent Behavior III

19954.5

Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills

19975.3

Spitfire

19954.7

Frogtown II

19923.6

The Hunter's Moon

19995.8

The King Is Alive

20005.5

The Soft Kill

19943.8

Mutator

19893.5

Joseph's Gift

19997.0

Flying High

19789.0

Assault on Dome 4

19963.7

Ultimate Desires

19914.2

Killing at Hell's Gate

19816.3

Men in White

19983.8

Hong Kong 97

19945.5

Savage Land

19945.5

Diplomatic Siege

19994.3

Back in Business

19975.4

Annihilator

19865.3

Heist

19999.0

Precious Victims

19937.0

Deadly Ransom

19987.7

A Place Called Truth

19983.3

The Killing Jar

19974.4

The Thief & the Stripper

20024.5

Jekyll Island

19988.3

Billy Lone Bear

19967.0

Circles in a Forest

19896.1

Arthurs Quest

19993.7

Malevolence

19997.3

Art Deco Detective

19946.0

Phoenix Point

20053.0

Dominion

19955.2

Swimming with Dolphins

2005