James Remar

Acting · Born 1953-12-31 in 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…

Filmography

• Drugstore Cowboy as Gentry
• Ratatouille as Larousse (voice)
• The Warriors as Ajax
• X-Men: First Class as US General
• Django Unchained as Butch Pooch / Ace Speck
• Oppenheimer as Henry Stimson
• Transformers One as Zeta Prime (voice)
• Feed as Tom
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood as 'Bounty Law' - 'Ugly Owl'
• 48 Hrs. as Albert Ganz

TV

• Third Watch as Detective Madjanski
• CSI: Miami as Quentin Taylor
• The Batman as Black Mask (voice)
• Tales from the Crypt as Red Buckley
• Battlestar Galactica as Meier
• Hill Street Blues
• Criminal Minds as Tom Benton
• The X-Files as Josef Kobold
• Animal Kingdom as Detective Andre
• Dexter as Harry Morgan