James Remar
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.
Born: 31 December 1953
Played In
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
The Night Watchmen
Randall
Can't Buy My Love
Rex
USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage
Admiral Parnell
Decommissioned
David Marino
The Dog Lover
Daniel Holloway
Animal Kingdom
Detective Andre
The Shannara Chronicles
Cephelo
The Shannara Chronicles
Cephalo
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 / Mr. Reese (voice)
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
William
Arena
Tall Man
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Sideswipe (voice)
Wilfred
Henry Newman
X-Men: First Class
US General
Franklin & Bash
Cliff
The FP
Narrator (voice)
Young Justice
Icicle Sr. (voice)
RED
Gabriel Singer
Pound Puppies
Sarge (voice)
Hawaii Five-0
Elliot Connor
Gun
Detective Rogers
Ben 10: Ultimate Alien
Vilgax (voice)
Human Target
Warden Cole
The Christmas Hope
Mark Addison
National Lampoon Presents: Endless Bummer
Sam Kramer
FlashForward
James Ermine
NCIS: Los Angeles
Sterling Bridges
The Vampire Diaries
Giuseppe Salvatore
2B
Tom Mortlake
The Unborn
Gordon Beldon
Batman: The Brave and the Bold
Two-Face (voice)
Pineapple Express
General Bratt
Ben 10: Alien Force
Vilgax (voice)
Eli Stone
Salinsky
Sharpshooter
Dillon
Private Practice
Dr. Gibson
The Warriors: The Beginning
Self
The Warriors: Battleground
Self
The Warriors: The Phenomenon
Self
Ratatouille
Larousse (voice)
The Warriors: The Way Home
Self
Dexter
Harry Morgan
Jericho
Jonah Prowse
Thief
Agent Patterson
The Unit
Reece
Criminal Minds
Tom Benton
Grey's Anatomy
Jimmy Evans
American Dad!
Charles Lindbergh Sr. (voice)
Numb3rs
Randall Priest
Blade: Trinity
Ray Cumberland
Battlestar Galactica
Meier
The Batman
Black Mask (voice)
Justice League Unlimited
Carter Hall (voice)
Justice League Unlimited
Hawkman / Shadow Thief (voice)
The Grid
North Shore
Vincent Colville
American Meltdown
Colonel Boggs
Ike: Countdown to D-Day
General Omar Bradley
The Girl Next Door
Hugo Posh
The Survivors Club
Roan Griffin
Duplex
Chick
Betrayal
Alex Tyler
Peacemakers
Cole Hawkins
2 Fast 2 Furious
Agent Markham
Fear X
Peter
Without a Trace
Lucas Vohland
CSI: Miami
Quentin Taylor
The Twilight Zone
Alois Hitler
Justice League
Lead Manhunter (voice)
Guardian
Detective Carpenter
Dying on the Edge
Jackie James
The Base 2: Guilty as Charged
Lt. Col. Strauss
Hellraiser: Inferno
Dr. Paul Gregory
The Huntress
Tiny Bellows
Strong Medicine
Guy Falls
What Lies Beneath
Warren Feur
Blowback
John Matthew Whitman / Schmidt
The Huntress
Tiny Bellows
Double Frame
Rites of Passage
Frank Dabbo
D.R.E.A.M. Team
Shawn Murphy
Third Watch
Detective Madjanski
Psycho Path
Self
Born Bad
Psycho
Patrolman
Inferno
Dr. Coleman West
Sex and the City
Richard Wright
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
Raiden
Total Security
Robo Warriors
Ray Gibson
7th Heaven
James Carver
The Phantom
Quill
The Quest
Maxie Devine
Nash Bridges
Mark Lee Page
One Good Turn
Simon Jury
Wild Bill
Donnie Lonigan
Judge Dredd
Block Warlord (uncredited)
Boys on the Side
Alex
The Surgeon
Dr. Benjamin Hendricks
Miracle on 34th Street
Jack Duff
Across the Moon
Rattlesnake Jim
Renaissance Man
Captain Tom Murdoch
Confessions of a Hitman
Bruno Serrano
Fatal Instinct
Max Shady
Blink
Thomas Ridgely
The X-Files
Josef Kobold
Walker, Texas Ranger
Keith Bolt
The Tigress
Andrei
Indecency
Mick Clarkson
Strangers
Bernard (The Last Game)
Brotherhood of the Gun
Frank Weir
Wedlock
Sam
White Fang
Beauty Smith
Session Man
McQueen
Night Visions
Sergeant Thomas Mackey
Fatal Charm
Louis
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
Preston (segment ‘Lover’s Vow’)
Kojak: None So Blind
Wolfgang Reiger
Drugstore Cowboy
Gentry
Desperado: The Outlaw Wars
John Sikes
Silence Like Glass
Tales from the Crypt
Red Buckley
The Dream Team
Gianelli
Rent-a-Cop
Dancer
Quiet Cool
Joe Dylanne
Band of the Hand
Nestor
The Clan of the Cave Bear
Creb
The Equalizer
Tremayne
The Cotton Club
Dutch Schultz
Miami Vice
Robbie Cann
The Mystic Warrior
Pesla
The Hitchhiker
Ron
48 Hrs.
Albert Ganz
Partners
Edward K. Petersen
Hill Street Blues
Windwalker
Windwalker (young)
The Long Riders
Sam Starr
Cruising
Gregory
The Warriors
Ajax
On the Yard
Larson