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James Remar
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.…
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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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2026
The Odyssey
Movie Tiresias
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2026
They Will Kill You
Movie The Pig's Head (voice)
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2025
All's Fair
TV show Theodore Baskin
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2025
IT: Welcome to Derry
TV show General Francis Shaw
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2025
Dexter: Resurrection
TV show Harry Morgan
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2024
Megalopolis
Movie Charles Cothope
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2024
Transformers One
Movie Zeta Prime (voice)
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2024
Drugstore June
Movie Arnold
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2023
Glowzies
Movie Darlus
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2023
Oppenheimer
Movie Henry Stimson
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2023
Paul T. Goldman
TV show Lt. Newman
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2022
The Noel Diary
Movie Scott Turner
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2020
Dead Reckoning
Movie Agent Cantrell
- 2020
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2020
Fire Over the Atlantic: The Mystery of TWA Flight 800
TV show Narrator
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2019
The Movies That Made Us
TV show Self
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2019
Creepshow
TV show Bateman
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2019
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Movie 'Bounty Law' - 'Ugly Owl'
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2019
City on a Hill
TV show Richy Ryan
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2018
Speed Kills
Movie Meyer Lansky
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2018
The Rookie
TV show Tom Bradford
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2018
Magnum P.I.
TV show Captain Buck Greene
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2018
All You Ever Wished For
Movie Gordon Hutton
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2018
Yellowstone
TV show Kyle Fremont
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2018
Black Lightning
TV show Peter Gambi
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2017
The Saint
Movie Arnold Valecross
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2017
Feed
Movie Tom
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2017
The Blackcoat's Daughter
Movie Bill
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2017
The Night Watchmen
Movie Randall
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2017
Can't Buy My Love
Movie Rex
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2016
USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage
Movie Admiral Parnell
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2016
Decommissioned
Movie David Marino
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2016
The Dog Lover
Movie Daniel Holloway
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2016
Animal Kingdom
TV show Detective Andre
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2016
The Shannara Chronicles
TV show Cephelo
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2015
Papa Hemingway in Cuba
Movie Santo Trafficante
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2015
Unnatural
Movie Martin Nakos
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2015
Code Black
TV show General Hutch Hutchinson
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2015
Eden
Movie Coach DaFoe
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2014
Lap Dance
Movie Patrick Moore
