
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.
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Known For
Acting History
2026
The Odyssey
2025All's Fair as Theodore Baskin
2025IT: Welcome to Derry as General Francis Shaw
2025Dexter: Resurrection as Harry Morgan
2024Megalopolis as Charles Cothope
2024Transformers One as Zeta Prime (voice)
2024Drugstore June as Arnold
2023Glowzies as Darlus
2023Oppenheimer as Henry Stimson
2023Paul T. Goldman as Lt. Newman
2022The Noel Diary as Scott Turner
2020Dead Reckoning as Agent Cantrell
2020Tales Behind The Darkside: The Making Of Four Ghoulish Fables as Himself
2020Fire Over the Atlantic: The Mystery of TWA Flight 800 as Narrator
2019The Movies That Made Us as Self
2019Creepshow as Bateman
2019Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood as 'Bounty Law' - 'Ugly Owl'
2019City on a Hill as Richy Ryan
2018Speed Kills as Meyer Lansky
2018The Rookie as Tom Bradford
2018Magnum P.I. as Captain Buck Greene
2018All You Ever Wished For as Gordon Hutton
2018Yellowstone as Kyle Fremont
2018Black Lightning as Peter Gambi
2017The Saint as Arnold Valecross
2017Feed as Tom
2017The Blackcoat's Daughter as Bill
2017Can't Buy My Love as Rex
2017The Night Watchmen as Randall
2016USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage as Admiral Parnell
2016Decommissioned as David Marino
2016The Dog Lover as Daniel Holloway
2016Animal Kingdom as Detective Andre
2016The Shannara Chronicles as Cephelo
2016The Shannara Chronicles as Cephalo
2015Papa Hemingway in Cuba as Santo Trafficante
2015Unnatural as Martin Nakos
2015Code Black as General Hutch Hutchinson
2015Eden as Coach DaFoe
2014Lap Dance as Patrick Moore
2014State of Affairs as Syd
2014Gotham as Frank Gordon
2014Persecuted as John Luther
2013Horns as Derrick Perrish
2013Beware the Batman as Silver Monkey (voice)
2013Beware the Batman as Silver Monkey / Mr. Reese (voice)
2012Django Unchained as Butch Pooch / Ace Speck
2012The Legend of Korra as Tonraq (voice)
2011All Superheroes Must Die as Rickshaw
2011Setup as William
2011Arena as Tall Man
2011Transformers: Dark of the Moon as Sideswipe (voice)
2011Wilfred as Henry Newman
2011Franklin & Bash as Cliff
2011X-Men: First Class as US General
2011The FP as Narrator (voice)
2010Young Justice as Icicle Sr. (voice)
2010RED as Gabriel Singer
2010Pound Puppies as Sarge (voice)
2010Hawaii Five-0 as Elliot Connor
2010Gun as Detective Rogers
2010Ben 10: Ultimate Alien as Vilgax (voice)
2010Human Target as Warden Cole
2009The Christmas Hope as Mark Addison
2009National Lampoon Presents: Endless Bummer as Sam Kramer
2009FlashForward as James Ermine
2009NCIS: Los Angeles as Sterling Bridges
20092B as Tom Mortlake
2009The Unborn as Gordon Beldon
2008Batman: The Brave and the Bold as Two-Face (voice)
2008Pineapple Express as General Bratt
2008Ben 10: Alien Force as Vilgax (voice)
2008Eli Stone as Salinsky
2007Sharpshooter as Dillon
2007Private Practice as Dr. Gibson
2007The Warriors: The Beginning as Self
2007The Warriors: The Phenomenon as Self
2007The Warriors: Battleground as Self
2007Ratatouille as Larousse (voice)
2007The Warriors: The Way Home as Self
2006Dexter as Harry Morgan
2006Jericho as Jonah Prowse
2006The Unit
2005Criminal Minds as Tom Benton
2005Grey's Anatomy as Jimmy Evans
2005American Dad! as Charles Lindbergh Sr. (voice)
2005Numb3rs as Randall Priest
2004Blade: Trinity as Ray Cumberland
2004Battlestar Galactica as Meier
2004The Batman as Black Mask (voice)
2004Justice League Unlimited as Carter Hall (voice)
2004Justice League Unlimited as Hawkman / Shadow Thief (voice)
2004The Grid
2004North Shore as Vincent Colville
2004American Meltdown as Colonel Boggs
2004Ike: Countdown to D-Day as General Omar Bradley
2004The Girl Next Door as Hugo Posh
2004The Survivors Club as Roan Griffin
2003Duplex as Chick
2003Betrayal as Alex Tyler
2003Peacemakers as Cole Hawkins
20032 Fast 2 Furious as Agent Markham
2003Fear X as Peter
2002Without a Trace as Lucas Vohland
2002CSI: Miami as Quentin Taylor
2002The Twilight Zone as Alois Hitler
2001Justice League as Lead Manhunter (voice)
2001Guardian as Detective Carpenter
2001Dying on the Edge as Jackie James
2000The Base 2: Guilty as Charged as Lt. Col. Strauss
2000Hellraiser: Inferno as Dr. Paul Gregory
2000The Huntress as Tiny Bellows
2000Strong Medicine as Guy Falls
2000What Lies Beneath as Warren Feur
2000Blowback as John Matthew Whitman / Schmidt
2000The Huntress as Tiny Bellows
1999Double Frame
1999Rites of Passage as Frank Dabbo
1999D.R.E.A.M. Team as Shawn Murphy
1999Third Watch as Detective Madjanski
1999Born Bad
1998Psycho as Patrolman
1998Inferno as Dr. Coleman West
1998Sex and the City as Richard Wright
1997Mortal Kombat: Annihilation as Raiden
1997Total Security
1996Robo Warriors as Ray Gibson
19967th Heaven as James Carver
1996The Phantom as Quill
1996The Quest as Maxie Devine
1996Nash Bridges as Mark Lee Page
1996One Good Turn as Simon Jury
1995Wild Bill as Donnie Lonigan
1995Judge Dredd as Block Warlord (uncredited)
1995Boys on the Side as Alex
1995The Surgeon as Dr. Benjamin Hendricks
1994Miracle on 34th Street as Jack Duff
1994Across the Moon as Rattlesnake Jim
1994Renaissance Man as Captain Tom Murdoch
1994Confessions of a Hitman as Bruno Serrano
1993Fatal Instinct as Max Shady
1993Blink as Thomas Ridgely
1993The X-Files as Josef Kobold
1993Walker, Texas Ranger as Keith Bolt
1992The Tigress as Andrei
1992Indecency as Mick Clarkson
1992Strangers as Bernard (The Last Game)
1991Brotherhood of the Gun as Frank Weir
1991Wedlock as Sam
1991White Fang as Beauty Smith
1991Session Man as McQueen
1990Night Visions as Sergeant Thomas Mackey
1990Fatal Charm as Louis
1990Tales from the Darkside: The Movie as Preston (segment ‘Lover’s Vow’)
1990Kojak: None So Blind as Wolfgang Reiger
1989Drugstore Cowboy as Gentry
1989Desperado: The Outlaw Wars as John Sikes
1989Silence Like Glass
1989Tales from the Crypt as Red Buckley
1989The Dream Team as Gianelli
1987Rent-a-Cop as Dancer
1986Quiet Cool as Joe Dylanne
1986Band of the Hand as Nestor
1986The Clan of the Cave Bear as Creb
1985The Equalizer as Tremayne
1984The Cotton Club as Dutch Schultz
1984Miami Vice as Robbie Cann
1984The Mystic Warrior as Pesla
1984The Mystic Warrior as Pesla
1983The Hitchhiker as Ron
198248 Hrs. as Albert Ganz
1982Partners as Edward K. Petersen
1981Hill Street Blues
1980Windwalker as Windwalker (young)
1980The Long Riders as Sam Starr
1980Cruising as Gregory
1979The Warriors as Ajax
1978On the Yard as Larson









