Actor · Acting

James Remar

Born 1953-12-31

📍 Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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.

Filmography 177

They Will Kill You

as Pig's Head (voice)

as Theodore Baskin

IT: Welcome to Derry

as General Francis Shaw

Dexter: Resurrection

as Harry Morgan

as Charles Cothope

Transformers One

as Zeta Prime (voice)

as Henry Stimson

Paul T. Goldman

as Scott Turner

as Agent Cantrell

Fire Over the Atlantic: The Mystery of TWA Flight 800

The Movies That Made Us

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

as 'Bounty Law' - 'Ugly Owl'

as Meyer Lansky

as Tom Bradford

as Captain Buck Greene

All You Ever Wished For

as Gordon Hutton

as Kyle Fremont

Black Lightning

as Arnold Valecross

The Blackcoat's Daughter

The Night Watchmen

Can't Buy My Love

USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage

as Admiral Parnell

as David Marino

as Daniel Holloway

as Detective Andre

The Shannara Chronicles

The Shannara Chronicles

Papa Hemingway in Cuba

as Santo Trafficante

as Martin Nakos

as General Hutch Hutchinson

as Patrick Moore

State of Affairs

as Frank Gordon

as Derrick Perrish

Beware the Batman

as Silver Monkey (voice)

Beware the Batman

as Silver Monkey / Mr. Reese (voice)

Django Unchained

as Butch Pooch / Ace Speck

Ben 10: Omniverse

as Vilgax (voice)

The Legend of Korra

as Tonraq (voice)

All Superheroes Must Die

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

as Sideswipe (voice)

as Henry Newman

X-Men: First Class

Franklin & Bash

as Narrator (voice)

as Icicle Sr. (voice)

as Gabriel Singer

as Sarge (voice)

as Elliot Connor

as Detective Rogers

Ben 10: Ultimate Alien

as Vilgax (voice)

The Christmas Hope

as Mark Addison

National Lampoon Presents: Endless Bummer

as James Ermine

NCIS: Los Angeles

as Sterling Bridges

The Vampire Diaries

as Giuseppe Salvatore

as Tom Mortlake

as Gordon Beldon

Batman: The Brave and the Bold

as Two-Face (voice)

Pineapple Express

as General Bratt

Ben 10: Alien Force

as Vilgax (voice)

Private Practice

The Warriors: The Beginning

The Warriors: Battleground

The Warriors: The Phenomenon

as Larousse (voice)

The Warriors: The Way Home

as Harry Morgan

as Jonah Prowse

as Charles Lindbergh Sr. (voice)

as Randall Priest

as Ray Cumberland

Battlestar Galactica

as Black Mask (voice)

Justice League Unlimited

as Carter Hall (voice)

Justice League Unlimited

as Hawkman / Shadow Thief (voice)

as Vincent Colville

American Meltdown

as Colonel Boggs

Ike: Countdown to D-Day

as General Omar Bradley

The Girl Next Door

The Survivors Club

as Roan Griffin

as Cole Hawkins

2 Fast 2 Furious

as Agent Markham

Without a Trace

as Lucas Vohland

as Quentin Taylor

The Twilight Zone

as Alois Hitler

as Lead Manhunter (voice)

as Detective Carpenter

Dying on the Edge

as Jackie James

The Base 2: Guilty as Charged

as Lt. Col. Strauss

Hellraiser: Inferno

as Dr. Paul Gregory

as Tiny Bellows

Strong Medicine

What Lies Beneath

as John Matthew Whitman / Schmidt

as Tiny Bellows

Rites of Passage

D.R.E.A.M. Team

as Shawn Murphy

as Detective Madjanski

as Dr. Coleman West

Sex and the City

as Richard Wright

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation

as James Carver

as Maxie Devine

as Mark Lee Page

as Donnie Lonigan

as Block Warlord (uncredited)

Boys on the Side

as Dr. Benjamin Hendricks

Miracle on 34th Street

Across the Moon

as Rattlesnake Jim

Renaissance Man

as Captain Tom Murdoch

Confessions of a Hitman

as Bruno Serrano

as Thomas Ridgely

as Josef Kobold

Walker, Texas Ranger

as Mick Clarkson

as Bernard (The Last Game)

as Beauty Smith

as Sergeant Thomas Mackey

Tales from the Darkside: The Movie

as Preston (segment ‘Lover’s Vow’)

Kojak: None So Blind

as Wolfgang Reiger

Drugstore Cowboy

Desperado: The Outlaw Wars

Silence Like Glass

Tales from the Crypt

Band of the Hand

The Clan of the Cave Bear

The Cotton Club

as Dutch Schultz

The Mystic Warrior

as Edward K. Petersen

Hill Street Blues

as Windwalker (young)

The Long Riders