Known For
Acting
Born
Dec 31, 1953
Place of Birth
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Credits
179 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Odyssey
Tiresias
They Will Kill You
The Pig's Head (voice)
All's Fair
Theodore Baskin
IT: Welcome to Derry
General Francis Shaw
Dexter: Resurrection
Harry Morgan
Megalopolis
Charles Cothope
Transformers One
Zeta Prime (voice)
Drugstore June
Arnold
Glowzies
Darlus
Oppenheimer
Henry Stimson
Paul T. Goldman
Lt. Newman
The Noel Diary
Scott Turner
Dead Reckoning
Agent Cantrell
Tales Behind The Darkside: The Making Of Four Ghoulish Fables
Himself
Fire Over the Atlantic: The Mystery of TWA Flight 800
Narrator
The Movies That Made Us
Self
Creepshow
Bateman
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
'Bounty Law' - 'Ugly Owl'
City on a Hill
Richy Ryan
Speed Kills
Meyer Lansky
The Rookie
Tom Bradford
Magnum P.I.
Captain Buck Greene
All You Ever Wished For
Gordon Hutton
Yellowstone
Kyle Fremont
Black Lightning
Peter Gambi
The Saint
Arnold Valecross
Feed
Tom
The Blackcoat's Daughter
Bill
Can't Buy My Love
Rex
The Night Watchmen
Randall
USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage
Admiral Parnell
Decommissioned
David Marino
The Dog Lover
Daniel Holloway
Animal Kingdom
Detective Andre
The Shannara Chronicles
Cephelo
Papa Hemingway in Cuba
Santo Trafficante
Unnatural
Martin Nakos
Code Black
General Hutch Hutchinson
Eden
Coach DaFoe
Lap Dance
Patrick Moore
State of Affairs
Syd
Gotham
Frank Gordon
Persecuted
John Luther
Horns
Derrick Perrish
Beware the Batman
Silver Monkey (voice)
Django Unchained
Butch Pooch / Ace Speck
Ben 10: Omniverse
Vilgax (voice)
The Legend of Korra
Tonraq (voice)
All Superheroes Must Die
Rickshaw
Setup
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