
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.
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The Odyssey
They Will Kill You
Megalopolis
Transformers One
Drugstore June
Glowzies
Oppenheimer
The Noel Diary
Tales Behind The Darkside: The Making Of Four Ghoulish Fables
Dead Reckoning
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Speed Kills
All You Ever Wished For
The Saint
Feed
The Blackcoat's Daughter
Can't Buy My Love
The Night Watchmen
USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage
The Dog Lover
Decommissioned
Unnatural
Papa Hemingway in Cuba
Lap Dance
Persecuted
Horns
Eden
Django Unchained
Ben 10: Omniverse
Setup
Arena
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
X-Men: First Class
The FP
All Superheroes Must Die
RED
Gun
The Christmas Hope
The Unborn
Endless Bummer
2B
Pineapple Express
Sharpshooter
The Warriors: The Beginning
The Warriors: Battleground
The Warriors: The Phenomenon
Ratatouille
The Warriors: The Way Home
Blade: Trinity
American Meltdown
Ike: Countdown to D-Day
The Girl Next Door
The Survivors Club
Duplex
Betrayal
2 Fast 2 Furious
Fear X
Guardian
The Base 2: Guilty as Charged
Hellraiser: Inferno
What Lies Beneath
The Huntress
Blowback
Double Frame
D.R.E.A.M. Team
Psycho Path
Born Bad
Rites of Passage
Psycho
Inferno
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
The Phantom
The Quest
One Good Turn
Robo Warriors
Wild Bill
Judge Dredd
Boys on the Side
The Surgeon
Miracle on 34th Street
Across the Moon
Renaissance Man
Confessions of a Hitman
Fatal Instinct
Blink
The Tigress
Indecency
Strangers- BRBrotherhood of the Gun
Wedlock
White Fang
Session Man
Night Visions
Fatal Charm
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
Kojak: None So Blind
Drugstore Cowboy
Desperado: The Outlaw Wars
Silence Like Glass
The Dream Team
Rent-a-Cop
Quiet Cool
Band of the Hand
The Clan of the Cave Bear
The Cotton Club
48 Hrs.
Partners
The Long Riders
Cruising
Windwalker
The Warriors
