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James Cook (Skins)
James Cook, called Cook, is a fictional character in the British teen drama Skins, played by Jack O'Connell. A Generation 2 anti-hero in Series 3–4 and protagonist of the 2013 finale Skins: Rise.
James Corden
James Corden (born 1978, Hillingdon, London) is an English actor, writer, and host known for Gavin & Stacey, One Man Two Guvnors (2012 Tony), and CBS's The Late Late Show with Carpool Karaoke, 2015-2023; now The Choir (2027) and Fox's World Cup After Hours.
James Cosmo
James Cosmo (born 1948, Clydebank, Scotland; birth name James Ronald Gordon Copeland) is a Scottish character actor known for Highlander, Braveheart, Troy, and Jeor Mormont in Game of Thrones; MBE 2018.
James Cromwell
James Oliver Cromwell (born January 27, 1940) is an American character actor, son of director John Cromwell, Oscar-nominated for Babe (1995), Emmy winner for American Horror Story: Asylum, and a PETA-affiliated vegan activist.
James D'Arcy
James D'Arcy (born Simon Richard D'Arcy, 1975) is an English actor and director, known as Edwin Jarvis in Agent Carter and Avengers: Endgame, and for Dunkirk and Oppenheimer.
James Daly (actor)
James Daly (James Firman Daly, 1918–1978), American stage, film and television actor; Dr. Paul Lochner on Medical Center (1969–76), Flint in Star Trek, Planet of the Apes; father of Tyne and Tim Daly; distinct from the 1905–1963 cinematographer and the Canadian stage actor of the same name.
James Darren
James Darren (James William Ercolani, 1936-2024), American actor, singer, and TV director; Moondoggie in Gidget and its sequels, hitmaker of "Goodbye Cruel World", Officer Jim Corrigan on T.J. Hooker, and Vic Fontaine on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
James Dean
James Byron Dean (1931–1955), American actor of East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, and Giant, died at 24 in a Cholame, California crash and remains the only performer with two posthumous lead-acting Oscar nominations.
James DeBello
James DeBello (born 1980, Hartford, Connecticut) is an American actor known as Trip in Detroit Rock City (1999), Bert in Cabin Fever, and roles in American Pie and Scary Movie 2.
James Deen
James Deen (Bryan Matthew Sevilla), American pornographic actor and director named after James Dean; youngest AVN Male Performer of the Year winner at 22; starred in The Canyons; dropped by major studios after 2015 rape allegations he denies.
James Denton
James Denton (James Thomas Denton Jr., born 1963, Nashville) is an American actor known as Mike Delfino on Desperate Housewives (2004-2012) and Dr. Sam Radford on Hallmark's Good Witch, also Mr. Lyle in The Pretender and a University of Tennessee advertising graduate.
James DePaiva
James DePaiva (born 1957, Livermore, California) is an American actor known as Max Holden on One Life to Live (1987-2007) and Dr. David Bensch on General Hospital; husband of actress Kassie DePaiva.
James Doakes
James Doakes is a fictional Miami Metro homicide sergeant in Showtime's Dexter and Jeff Lindsay's novels, played by Erik King. The only character to suspect Dexter Morgan, he is killed by Lila in the Season 2 finale and framed as the Bay Harbor Butcher; the book version, Albert Doakes, survives mutilation by Dr. Danco.
James Donald
James Donald (James Robert MacGeorge Donald, 1917–1993) was a Scottish actor known for Major Clipton in The Bridge on the River Kwai, Group Captain Ramsey in The Great Escape, and Theo van Gogh in Lust for Life; distinct from the American actor James Wayne Donald Jr. (born 1964).
James Doohan
James Montgomery Doohan (1920-2005), Canadian actor and WWII veteran who played chief engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in Star Trek (1966-69) and seven films; also devised early Klingon and co-wrote the Flight Engineer novels.
James Dreyfus
James Dreyfus (James Louis de Zogheb Dreyfus, born 1968) is an English actor known as P.C. Goody in The Thin Blue Line, Tom in Gimme Gimme Gimme, Notting Hill, and his 1998 Olivier Award for Lady in the Dark.
James Drury
James Drury (James Child Drury Jr., 1934–2020), American actor, star of NBC's first 90-minute color western The Virginian (1962–1971, 249 episodes); also Forbidden Planet, Ride the High Country; Hall of Great Western Performers inductee.
James Duff (writer)
James Duff (born 1955, New Orleans) is an American TV writer and producer, creator of The Closer and Major Crimes, playwright of Home Front, and executive producer of Star Trek: Picard and Sherlock & Daughter.
James Dunn (actor)
James Howard Dunn (1901–1967), American film and television actor and vaudeville performer, Fox contract star of Bad Girl and Shirley Temple's first features, won the 1945 Best Supporting Actor Oscar for A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and later starred in TV's It's a Great Life.
James Duval
James Duval (born 1972, Detroit) is an American actor known for Gregg Araki's Teenage Apocalypse trilogy, Frank in Donnie Darko, and roles in Independence Day and Go; namesake of a filmmaker (1962-2023).
James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones (1931–2024), American actor and EGOT winner; voice of Darth Vader and Mufasa; first Black Tony Best Actor winner for The Great White Hope; Cort Theatre renamed in his honor in 2022.
James Farentino
James Farentino (James Ferrantino, 1938-2012), American actor; Emmy-nominated as Simon Peter in Jesus of Nazareth, Golden Globe winner for The Pad and How to Use It; TV roles in Dynasty, The Bold Ones, and ER.
James Fleet
James Fleet (born 1952, Bilston, Staffordshire) is an English actor trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, known for Tom in Four Weddings and a Funeral, Hugo Horton in The Vicar of Dibley, and King George III in Queen Charlotte.
James Foley (director)
James Foley (director) (1953–2025), American film and TV director, not the journalist James Foley nor the Australian author. Directed Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), Madonna's music videos, House of Cards episodes, and the two Fifty Shades sequels.
James Fox
James Fox is the name of several figures, chiefly an American documentary filmmaker known for UFO films such as The Phenomenon and The Program, and an English actor born 1939, BAFTA winner for The Servant.
James Fox (filmmaker)
James Fox is a documentary filmmaker specializing in UFO/UAP films: UFOs: 50 Years of Denial, Out of the Blue, I Know What I Saw, The Phenomenon (2020), Moment of Contact (2022), and The Program (2024). Not the British actor or art historian of the same name.
James Franciscus
James Grover Franciscus (1934–1991), American actor of Naked City, Mr. Novak, Longstreet, and Doc Elliot; also Beneath the Planet of the Apes; producer of classic TV adaptations; died of emphysema at 57.
James Franco
James Franco (born 1978) is an American actor known for Freaks and Geeks, the Spider-Man trilogy, 127 Hours, and The Disaster Artist, also a writer and teacher whose career was derailed by Studio 4 sexual-misconduct lawsuits settled for $2.2 million in 2021.
James Franco filmography
The James Franco filmography covers the screen credits of American actor and filmmaker James Franco, known for Freaks and Geeks, the Spider-Man films, and 127 Hours.
James Frecheville
James Aitken Frecheville (born 1991, Melbourne) is an Australian actor known for his debut as J in Animal Kingdom (2010), Jack Nelson in Peaky Blinders, and Maj. Bill Veal in Masters of the Air.