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James Roday Rodriguez
James Roday Rodriguez (born James David Rodriguez, 1976) is an American actor, director, and writer known for playing Shawn Spencer on Psych (2006–2014) and Gary Mendez on A Million Little Things; he reclaimed his birth name Rodriguez in 2020.
James Russo
James Vincent Russo (born 1953, Queens, New York) is an American character actor known for villain and gangster roles in Once Upon a Time in America, Beverly Hills Cop, Extremities, Donnie Brasco, and Django Unchained.
James Saito
James Saito (James Tomio Saito, born 1955, Los Angeles) is an American actor of Japanese descent, the original Shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), Dr. Chen in Eli Stone, and a 2007 Obie winner for Durango.
James Shigeta
James Shigeta (1929-2014), Honolulu-born Japanese American singer and actor, Hollywood romantic lead in The Crimson Kimono, Flower Drum Song, and Bridge to the Sun, later Joseph Takagi in Die Hard and the voice of General Li in Mulan.
James Spader
James Spader (born 1960, Boston) is an American actor known for sex, lies, and videotape, Alan Shore on Boston Legal (3 Emmys), Reddington on The Blacklist, and Ultron in Age of Ultron and VisionQuest.
James St. James
James St. James (born James Clark, 1966) is an American writer, performer, and original NYC Club Kid; author of Disco Bloodbath (aka Party Monster) and Freak Show, subject of the 2003 Party Monster film, and a World of Wonder personality and Night Fever podcast co-host.
James Stacy
James Stacy (Maurice William Elias, 1936-2016), American actor, starred as Johnny Madrid Lancer in the TV western Lancer (1968-70), lost an arm and leg in a 1973 motorcycle accident, returned in Posse, earned two Emmy nominations, and was later convicted of child molestation.
James Stewart
James Maitland Stewart (1908–1997), American actor and Air Force Reserve brigadier general; star of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It's a Wonderful Life, and Vertigo; five Oscar nominations, one win, AFI Life Achievement Award 1980.
James Stewart (Australian actor)
James Stewart (born 1975) is an Australian actor, not the Hollywood star James Stewart, known for Justin Morgan on Home and Away since 2016, Jake Barton in Packed to the Rafters, the band George, and a Matilda Award for The Glass Menagerie.
James Stewart filmography
James Stewart filmography: career of American actor James Stewart (1908–1997), 116 AFI-listed titles from The Murder Man (1935) to An American Tail (1991), with an Oscar for The Philadelphia Story, Anthony Mann and Hitchcock collaborations, and five nominations.
James Sweeney (filmmaker)
James Sweeney (born 1990, Sacramento) is an American writer-director-producer-actor raised in Alaska, a Chapman University graduate. His features Straight Up (2019) and Twinless (2025, Sundance Audience Award, with Dylan O'Brien) mark him from other namesakes.
James T. Kirk
James Tiberius Kirk, fictional Starfleet captain in Star Trek, played by William Shatner in the original 1966-1969 series commanding the USS Enterprise; later Chris Pine and Paul Wesley. Created by Gene Roddenberry, modeled on Horatio Hornblower.
James Toback
James Toback (born 1944, New York) is an American screenwriter and director of The Gambler, Fingers, and the Oscar-nominated Bugsy screenplay, also director of Tyson and Seduced and Abandoned; a 2025 New York jury awarded $1.68 billion to 40 women accusing him of sexual abuse.
James Tolkan
James Stewart Tolkan (June 20, 1931 – March 26, 2026) was an American character actor, Vice Principal Gerald Strickland in Back to the Future and Commander 'Stinger' Jardian in Top Gun, also in Serpico and the original Broadway Glengarry Glen Ross.
James Tupper
James Tupper (James Howard Tupper), Canadian actor born 1965 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia; Concordia BFA 1992 and Rutgers MFA. Known for Jack Slattery in Men in Trees, Dr. Chris Sands in Mercy, David Clarke in Revenge, and Nathan Carlson in Big Little Lies.
James Urbaniak
James Urbaniak (born 1963, Bayonne, New Jersey) is an American character actor known as Simon Grim in Henry Fool, Robert Crumb in American Splendor, and the voice of Dr. Rusty Venture in The Venture Bros., with an Obie Award and a Drama Desk nomination for Thom Pain.
James Van Der Beek
James David Van Der Beek (1977–2026) was an American actor, teen idol as Dawson Leery on Dawson's Creek (The WB, 1998–2003), also of Varsity Blues, Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23, and CSI: Cyber; died at 48 of colorectal cancer.
James Vanderbilt
James Platten Vanderbilt (born 1975, Norwalk, Connecticut) is an American screenwriter and producer of Zodiac, The Amazing Spider-Man, the Scream reboots, Murder Mystery, and writer-director of Truth (2015) and Nuremberg (2025).
James Wan
James Wan (温子仁), born 1977 in Kuching, Malaysia, is a Malaysian-Australian director and producer who co-created Saw, Insidious, and The Conjuring and directed Furious 7 and Aquaman.
James Waterston
James Waterston (born 1969, New York City) is an American actor, son of Sam Waterston, known for Dead Poets Society, Little Sweetheart, Live from Baghdad, Red Oaks, the BBC's Oppenheimer, and extensive Off-Broadway and regional stage work.
James Westmoreland (actor)
James Westmoreland (1935–2016), also known as Rad Fulton, American film and TV actor; played Ruel Jaxon on The Monroes and soap roles on General Hospital and The Young and the Restless.
James Whale
James Whale (1889–1957) was an English film and theater director who spent his Hollywood career at Universal, directing Frankenstein (1931), The Invisible Man (1933), and Bride of Frankenstein (1935).
James Whitmore
James Whitmore (1921–2009), American character actor and "King of the One Man Show" for his solo portrayals of Will Rogers, Harry Truman, and Theodore Roosevelt; Tony, Grammy, and Emmy winner with two Oscar nominations.
James Whitmore Jr.
James Whitmore Jr. (James Allen Whitmore III, born 1948) is an American TV actor and director, son of actor James Whitmore. Known for Black Sheep Squadron and Hunter, he later directed NCIS, Quantum Leap, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes.
James Wilby
James Wilby names three British subjects: an actor born 1958 in Rangoon, star of Maurice, Howards End, and Gosford Park; a Commonwealth champion breaststroke swimmer born in Glasgow; and a Yorkshire transport company founded in 1916.
James Wilson (House)
Dr. James Evan Wilson, played by Robert Sean Leonard, is the fictional head of oncology at Princeton-Plainsboro and Gregory House's only consistent friend across all eight seasons of House (2004–2012), ending with a thymoma diagnosis and the finale motorcycle ride.
James Wolk
James Wolk (James Joseph Wolk, born 1985, Farmington Hills, Michigan) is an American TV actor: Lone Star, Mad Men's Bob Benson, Zoo's Jackson Oz, Ordinary Joe, Happy Face (2025).
James Wong (黄毅瑜) (filmmaker)
James Wong (黄毅瑜), Hong Kong-born American TV writer, producer, and director; The X-Files, Space: Above and Beyond co-creator; directed Final Destination, The One, Final Destination 3, Dragonball: Evolution; six Emmy nominations.
James Wong Howe
James Wong Howe (Wong Tung Jim, 1899-1976), Chinese-American Hollywood cinematographer of over 130 films from 1923 to 1975; won Oscars for The Rose Tattoo and Hud, pioneered deep focus, low-key lighting, and wide-angle lenses.
James Woods
James Woods (born 1947, Vernal, Utah) is an American actor known for intense roles in The Onion Field, Salvador (Oscar-nominated), and Ghosts of Mississippi, plus the voice of Hades in Hercules and Kingdom Hearts; distinct from other people named James Woods.