James Remar Biography

Birthday: 1953-12-31
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts USA
Height: 5' 10½" (1.79 m)
Wiki Biography: Rugged, intense character player with average-guy good looks and a slightly squinty stare, adept at vicious, sometimes psychopathic roles. Remar gained recognition as a punk who gets chained to a park bench by a woman cop in his second film, The Warriors (1979). That same year he garnered acclaim on Broadway as Richard Gere's lover in the concentration camp drama "Bent". Remar subsequently kept busy primarily in features, playing gangster Dutch Schultz in Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club (1984), one of the Neanderthals in The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986), and an experienced military officer who doubts the power of Shakespeare in Renaissance Man (1994). Remar has occasionally garnered roles which highlight a more vulnerable side, such as his guitarist who gets a break in the Oscar-winning short, Session Man (1991) (TV) or his artist who falls in love with a gargoyle come to life in the best segment of the horror anthology, Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990). Remar is, in fact, still best known for his galvanizing performances as a homicidal maniac escaped from prison in 48 Hrs. (1982) and as a no-nonsense cop in Drugstore Cowboy (1989). Remar sent up some of his earlier roles in the half-baked spoof Fatal Instinct (1993), as a killer released from prison out to get Armand Assante.
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Filmography
TV Title | Appeared As | Year | Genre |
---|---|---|---|
Dexter | Harry Morgan | Crime | |
White Fang | Beauty Smith | 1991 | Adventure |
Total Security | Frank Cisco | 1997 | Action |
The Huntress | Tiny Bellows | 2000 | Action |
The Grid | Hudson 'Hud' Benoit | 2004 | Action |
Countdown to... | Gen. Omar Bradley | 2013 |
Movies Title | Appeared As | Year | Genre |
---|---|---|---|
Phantom | Quill | 1922 | |
The Warriors | Ajax | 1979 | Action, Crime, Drama |
Windwalker | 1980 | 0, 0 | |
The Long Riders | Sam Starr | 1980 | Fantasy |
48 Hrs. | Albert Ganz | 1982 | 0, 0, Comedy, 0 |
The Cotton Club | Dutch Schultz | 1984 | |
The Clan of the Cave Bear | Creb | 1986 | 0, 0 |
Quiet Cool | Joe Dylanne | 1986 | Action |
Rent-a-Cop | 1987 | 0, 0 | |
Drugstore Cowboy | Gentry | 1989 | Comedy, 0 |
The Dream Team | Gianelli | 1989 | Comedy |
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie | 1990 | ||
Silence Like Glass | Charly | 1990 | Drama |
The Unborn | Gordon Beldon | 1991 | Sport, Reality Tv |
White Fang | Beauty Smith | 1991 | Adventure, Drama |
Wedlock | Sam | 1991 | Action, Crime, Drama |
Die Tigerin | Andrei | 1992 | Crime, Drama |
Fatal Instinct | Max Shady | 1993 | 0, Comedy |
Blink | Thomas Ridgely | 1994 | Game Show, Comedy |
Confessions of a Hitman | Bruno Serrano | 1994 | Crime, Drama |
Renaissance Man | Captain Tom Murdoch | 1994 | Comedy, Drama |
Miracle on 34th Street | Jack Duff | 1994 | Drama, Fantasy |
Boys on the Side | Alex | 1995 | Comedy, Drama |
The Surgeon | Dr. Benjamin Hendricks | 1995 | Horror, Thriller |
Wild Bill | Donnie Lonigan | 1995 | Action, Biography |
The Phantom | Quill | 1996 | |
The Quest | Maxie | 1996 | |
One Good Turn | Simon Jury | 1996 | Thriller |
Robo Warriors | Ray Gibson | 1996 | Action, Adventure |
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation | Rayden | 1997 | Action, Adventure, Fantasy |
Psycho | Patrolman | 1998 | Horror, Mystery, Thriller |
Rites of Passage | Frank Dabbo | 1999 | |
Born Bad | Sheriff Larabee | 1999 | Crime, Drama |
Hellraiser: Inferno | 2000 | ||
What Lies Beneath | Warren Feur | 2000 | Game Show, 0, Reality Tv, Sport |
Guardian | Detective Carpenter | 2001 | Action, Thriller |
Down with the Joneses | Vic | 2003 | Drama |
2 Fast 2 Furious | Agent Markham | 2003 | 0, Comedy |
Duplex | Chick | 2003 | |
Betrayal | Alex Tyler | 2003 | Action, Drama, Thriller |
Ike: Countdown to D-Day | Gen. Omar Bradley | 2004 | 0, Romance, 0 |
Blade: Trinity | Ray Cumberland | 2004 | Action, Adventure, Fantasy |
Blowback | 2007 | ||
Ratatouille | Larousse | 2007 | Animation, Comedy, Family |
Pineapple Express | General Bratt | 2008 | 0 |
The Pineapple Express | General Bratt | 2008 | Action, Comedy, Crime |
2B | Tom Mortlake | 2009 | |
Setup | William Long | 2011 | 0, Comedy, 0 |
The FP | Narrator | 2011 | 0 |
Transformers: The Ride - 3D | Sideswipe | 2012 | Action, Adventure |
Django Unchained | Butch Pooch / Ace Speck | 2012 | Adventure, Drama |
Horns | Derrick Perrish | 2013 | 0, Game Show, Reality Tv, 0 |
Vs | Rickshaw | 2013 | Thriller |
Monica | Patrick Moore | 2014 | Drama |
Persecuted | John Luther | 2014 | Game Show, 0 |
Papa | Santo Trafficante | 2015 | Biography |
Decommissioned | David Marino | 2015 | Action, Thriller |
The Wrong Side of Right | Daniel Holloway | 2015 | Drama |
Unnatural | Martin Nakos | 2015 | Action, Horror, Thriller |
The Night Watchmen | Randall | 2017 | 0 |