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James Remar
James Remar’s screen credits include Butch Pooch / Ace Speck in Django Unchained, Larousse (voice) in Ratatouille, and Hugo Posh in The Girl Next Door.
Born December 31, 1953 Boston, Massachusetts, USA5 movies on MoviHero
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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: …
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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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- 2026The OdysseyTiresias
- 2026They Will Kill YouThe Pig's Head (voice)
- 2024MegalopolisCharles Cothope
- 2024Transformers OneZeta Prime (voice)
- 2024Drugstore JuneArnold
- 2023GlowziesDarlus
- 2023OppenheimerHenry Stimson
- 2022The Noel DiaryScott Turner
- 2020Dead ReckoningAgent Cantrell
- 2020Tales Behind The Darkside: The Making Of Four Ghoulish FablesHimself
- 2019Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood'Bounty Law' - 'Ugly Owl'
- 2018Speed KillsMeyer Lansky
- 2018All You Ever Wished ForGordon Hutton
- 2017The SaintArnold Valecross
- 2017FeedTom
- 2017The Blackcoat's DaughterBill
- 2017Can't Buy My LoveRex
- 2017The Night WatchmenRandall
- 2016USS Indianapolis: Men of CourageAdmiral Parnell
- 2016DecommissionedDavid Marino
- 2016The Dog LoverDaniel Holloway
- 2015Papa Hemingway in CubaSanto Trafficante
- 2015UnnaturalMartin Nakos
- 2015EdenCoach DaFoe
- 2014Lap DancePatrick Moore
- 2014PersecutedJohn Luther
- 2013HornsDerrick Perrish
- 2012Ben 10: OmniverseVilgax (voice)
- 2011All Superheroes Must DieRickshaw
- 2011SetupWilliam
- 2011ArenaTall Man
- 2011Transformers: Dark of the MoonSideswipe (voice)
- 2011X-Men: First ClassUS General
- 2011The FPNarrator (voice)
- 2010REDGabriel Singer
- 2010GunDetective Rogers
- 2009The Christmas HopeMark Addison
- 2009National Lampoon Presents: Endless BummerSam Kramer
- 20092BTom Mortlake
- 2009The UnbornGordon Beldon
- 2008Pineapple ExpressGeneral Bratt
- 2007SharpshooterDillon
- 2007The Warriors: BattlegroundSelf
- 2007The Warriors: The BeginningSelf
- 2007The Warriors: The PhenomenonSelf
- 2007The Warriors: The Way HomeSelf
- 2004Blade: TrinityRay Cumberland
- 2004American MeltdownColonel Boggs
- 2004Ike: Countdown to D-DayGeneral Omar Bradley
- 2004The Survivors ClubRoan Griffin
- 2003BetrayalAlex Tyler
- 20032 Fast 2 FuriousAgent Markham
- 2003Fear XPeter
- 2001GuardianDetective Carpenter
- 2001Dying on the EdgeJackie James
- 2000The Base 2: Guilty as ChargedLt. Col. Strauss
- 2000Hellraiser: InfernoDr. Paul Gregory
- 2000What Lies BeneathWarren Feur
- 2000BlowbackJohn Matthew Whitman / Schmidt
- 2000The HuntressTiny Bellows
- 1999Double FrameActor
- 1999Rites of PassageFrank Dabbo
- 1999D.R.E.A.M. TeamShawn Murphy
- 1999Psycho PathSelf
- 1999Born BadActor
- 1998PsychoPatrolman
- 1998InfernoDr. Coleman West
- 1997Mortal Kombat: AnnihilationRaiden
- 1996Robo WarriorsRay Gibson
- 1996The PhantomQuill
- 1996The QuestMaxie Devine
- 1996One Good TurnSimon Jury
- 1995Wild BillDonnie Lonigan
- 1995Judge DreddBlock Warlord (uncredited)
- 1995Boys on the SideAlex
- 1995The SurgeonDr. Benjamin Hendricks
- 1994Miracle on 34th StreetJack Duff
- 1994Across the MoonRattlesnake Jim
- 1994Renaissance ManCaptain Tom Murdoch
- 1994Confessions of a HitmanBruno Serrano
- 1993Fatal InstinctMax Shady
- 1993BlinkThomas Ridgely
- 1992The TigressAndrei
- 1992IndecencyMick Clarkson
- 1992StrangersBernard (The Last Game)
- 1991Brotherhood of the GunFrank Weir
- 1991WedlockSam
- 1991White FangBeauty Smith
- 1991Session ManMcQueen
- 1990Night VisionsSergeant Thomas Mackey
- 1990Fatal CharmLouis
- 1990Tales from the Darkside: The MoviePreston (segment ‘Lover’s Vow’)
- 1990Kojak: None So BlindWolfgang Reiger
- 1989Drugstore CowboyGentry
- 1989Desperado: The Outlaw WarsJohn Sikes
- 1989Silence Like GlassCharly
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