
James Remar
Biography
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

Megalopolis

Transformers One

Drugstore June

Glowzies

Oppenheimer

The Noel Diary

Dead Reckoning

Tales Behind The Darkside: The Making Of Four Ghoulish Fables

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

Speed Kills

All You Ever Wished For

The Saint

Feed

The Blackcoat's Daughter

The Night Watchmen

Can't Buy My Love

USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage

Decommissioned

The Dog Lover

Papa Hemingway in Cuba

Unnatural

Lap Dance

Persecuted

Horns

Eden

Django Unchained

All Superheroes Must Die

Setup

Arena

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

X-Men: First Class

The FP

RED

Gun

The Christmas Hope

National Lampoon Presents: Endless Bummer

2B

The Unborn

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

Dying on the Edge

The Base 2: Guilty as Charged

Hellraiser: Inferno

What Lies Beneath

Blowback

The Huntress

Double Frame

Rites of Passage

D.R.E.A.M. Team

Born Bad

Psycho

Inferno

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation

Robo Warriors

The Phantom

The Quest

One Good Turn

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

Brotherhood 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

The Mystic Warrior

48 Hrs.

Partners

Windwalker

The Long Riders

Cruising

The Warriors
