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.
Movies
Megalopolis
Charles Cothope
Transformers One
Zeta Prime (voice)
Drugstore June
Arnold
Glowzies
Darlus
Oppenheimer
Henry Stimson
The Noel Diary
Scott Turner
Dead Reckoning
Agent Cantrell
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
'Bounty Law' - 'Ugly Owl'
Speed Kills
Meyer Lansky
All You Ever Wished For
Gordon Hutton
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
Papa Hemingway in Cuba
Santo Trafficante
Unnatural
Martin Nakos
Eden
Coach DaFoe
Lap Dance
Patrick Moore
Persecuted
John Luther
Horns
Derrick Perrish
Django Unchained
Butch Pooch / Ace Speck
All Superheroes Must Die
Rickshaw
Setup
William
Arena
Tall Man
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Sideswipe (voice)
X-Men: First Class
US General
The FP
Narrator (voice)
RED
Gabriel Singer
Gun
Detective Rogers
The Christmas Hope
Mark Addison
National Lampoon Presents: Endless Bummer
Sam Kramer
2B
Tom Mortlake
The Unborn
Gordon Beldon
Pineapple Express
General Bratt
Sharpshooter
Dillon
Ratatouille
Larousse (voice)
Blade: Trinity
Ray Cumberland
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
2 Fast 2 Furious
Agent Markham
Fear X
Peter
Guardian
Detective Carpenter
Dying on the Edge
Jackie James
The Base 2: Guilty as Charged
Lt. Col. Strauss
Hellraiser: Inferno
Dr. Paul Gregory
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
Born Bad
Psycho
Patrolman
Inferno
Dr. Coleman West
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
Raiden
Robo Warriors
Ray Gibson
The Phantom
Quill
The Quest
Maxie Devine
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 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
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 Cotton Club
Dutch Schultz
The Mystic Warrior
Pesla
48 Hrs.
Albert Ganz
Partners
Edward K. Petersen
Windwalker
Windwalker (young)
The Long Riders
Sam Starr
Cruising
Gregory
The Warriors
Ajax
On the Yard
Larson
TV Series
All's Fair
Theodore Baskin
1 Episode
IT: Welcome to Derry
General Francis Shaw
8 Episodes
Dexter: Resurrection
Harry Morgan
10 Episodes
Paul T. Goldman
Lt. Newman
2 Episodes
Fire Over the Atlantic: The Mystery of TWA Flight 800
Narrator
6 Episodes
Creepshow
Bateman
1 Episode
City on a Hill
Richy Ryan
1 Episode
The Rookie
Tom Bradford
1 Episode
Magnum P.I.
Captain Buck Greene
6 Episodes
Yellowstone
Kyle Fremont
1 Episode
Black Lightning
Peter Gambi
58 Episodes
Animal Kingdom
Detective Andre
4 Episodes
The Shannara Chronicles
Cephelo
3 Episodes
Code Black
General Hutch Hutchinson
1 Episode
State of Affairs
Syd
1 Episode
Gotham
Frank Gordon
3 Episodes
Beware the Batman
Silver Monkey / Mr. Reese (voice)
1 Episode
The Legend of Korra
Tonraq (voice)
14 Episodes
Wilfred
Henry Newman
2 Episodes
Franklin & Bash
Cliff
1 Episode
Young Justice
Icicle Sr. (voice)
1 Episode
Pound Puppies
Sarge (voice)
1 Episode
Hawaii Five-0
Elliot Connor
1 Episode
Ben 10: Ultimate Alien
Vilgax (voice)
5 Episodes
Human Target
Warden Cole
1 Episode
FlashForward
James Ermine
1 Episode
NCIS: Los Angeles
Sterling Bridges
3 Episodes
Batman: The Brave and the Bold
Two-Face (voice)
1 Episode
Ben 10: Alien Force
Vilgax (voice)
2 Episodes
Eli Stone
Salinsky
1 Episode
Private Practice
Dr. Gibson
1 Episode
Dexter
Harry Morgan
96 Episodes
Jericho
Jonah Prowse
5 Episodes
The Unit
1 Episode
Criminal Minds
Tom Benton
1 Episode
Grey's Anatomy
Jimmy Evans
6 Episodes
American Dad!
Charles Lindbergh Sr. (voice)
1 Episode
Numb3rs
Randall Priest
1 Episode
Battlestar Galactica
Meier
2 Episodes
The Batman
Black Mask (voice)
3 Episodes
Justice League Unlimited
Carter Hall (voice)
1 Episode
The Grid
6 Episodes
North Shore
Vincent Colville
20 Episodes
Peacemakers
Cole Hawkins
1 Episode
Without a Trace
Lucas Vohland
1 Episode
CSI: Miami
Quentin Taylor
1 Episode
The Twilight Zone
Alois Hitler
1 Episode
Justice League
Lead Manhunter (voice)
2 Episodes
The Huntress
Tiny Bellows
28 Episodes
Strong Medicine
Guy Falls
1 Episode
Third Watch
Detective Madjanski
4 Episodes
Sex and the City
Richard Wright
10 Episodes
Total Security
13 Episodes
7th Heaven
James Carver
2 Episodes
Nash Bridges
Mark Lee Page
1 Episode
The X-Files
Josef Kobold
1 Episode
Walker, Texas Ranger
Keith Bolt
1 Episode
Tales from the Crypt
Red Buckley
1 Episode
The Equalizer
Tremayne
1 Episode
Miami Vice
Robbie Cann
1 Episode
The Mystic Warrior
Pesla
5 Episodes
The Hitchhiker
Ron
1 Episode
Hill Street Blues
2 Episodes