James Remar
ActingAlso Known As
Джеймс Римар, Τζέιμς Ρεμάρ, 詹姆斯・瑞馬, جیمز رمار, William James Remar
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.
Movies
(111 total)
Django Unchained
as Butch Pooch / Ace Speck
Ratatouille
as Larousse (voice)
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
as 'Bounty Law' - 'Ugly Owl'
X-Men: First Class
as US General
Oppenheimer
as Henry Stimson
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
as Sideswipe (voice)
2 Fast 2 Furious
as Agent Markham
RED
as Gabriel Singer
Blade: Trinity
as Ray Cumberland
Pineapple Express
as General Bratt
The Girl Next Door
as Hugo Posh
Judge Dredd
as Block Warlord (uncredited)
Horns
as Derrick Perrish
The Warriors
as Ajax
What Lies Beneath
as Warren Feur
Duplex
as Chick
48 Hrs.
as Albert Ganz
Transformers One
as Zeta Prime (voice)
The Unborn
as Gordon Beldon
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
as Raiden
TV Shows
(68 total)
Grey's Anatomy
as Jimmy Evans
The Vampire Diaries
as Giuseppe Salvatore
Dexter
as Harry Morgan
Criminal Minds
as Tom Benton
Gotham
as Frank Gordon
The X-Files
as Josef Kobold
The Rookie
as Tom Bradford
Yellowstone
as Kyle Fremont
American Dad!
as Charles Lindbergh Sr. (voice)
The Legend of Korra
as Tonraq (voice)
Sex and the City
as Richard Wright
Hawaii Five-0
as Elliot Connor
Battlestar Galactica
as Meier
CSI: Miami
as Quentin Taylor
IT: Welcome to Derry
as General Francis Shaw
NCIS: Los Angeles
as Sterling Bridges
Young Justice
as Icicle Sr. (voice)
Ben 10: Alien Force
as Vilgax (voice)
The Shannara Chronicles
as Cephelo
The Shannara Chronicles
as Cephalo