James Remar

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James Remar
James Remar at the premiere What Lies Beneath
Birth name	William James Remar
Born	December 31, 1953 Boston, Massachusetts
Notable roles	Lord Raiden in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997) Albert Ganz in 48 Hrs. (1982) Ajax in The Warriors (1979) Richard in Sex and the City Jonah Prowse in Jericho (2006) Harry Morgan in Dexter (2006)

William James Remar (b. December 31, 1953) is an American actor. He has appeared in 98 different media projects, either movies, video games or TV shows.

Remar was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He is well known for his role as Ajax in the 1979 cult film The Warriors, as Albert Ganz in the 1982 hit 48 Hrs. and as Dutch Schultz in the 1984 film The Cotton Club. In 1996, he played one of the main bad guys in Paramount's big budget action movie The Phantom, where he did his best to stop Billy Zane's superhero. Remar was originally cast as Corporal Dwayne Hicks in Aliens but was fired by director James Cameron a few days after filming over "creative differences" and replaced by Michael Biehn. Remar can still be seen in the film during a shot where the Marines are walking through the complex, but the audience cannot tell it's him because his back is to the camera and he is in full costume.^{[citation needed]}

His other films include Fear X, Boys on the Side, Hellraiser: Inferno, Deadlock, Blade: Trinity, 2 Fast 2 Furious, The Girl Next Door and in 1998 he played the policeman that kept following the woman around in Psycho, he was also the star of the 1986 film Quiet Cool. He portrayed the character of Raiden in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, the sequel to the 1995 movie adaptation of Mortal Kombat, taking the role over from Christopher Lambert.

Remar's guest appearances range from Hill Street Blues, Sex and the City, Third Watch, Justice League Unlimited and Battlestar Galactica. He also starred on the short-lived TV series called The Huntress as Tiny Bellows. As of 2007, He is starring in two TV series that debuted in 2006: Dexter on Showtime and Jericho on CBS.