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William James Remar (born 31 December 1953) is an American actor. He has appeared in at least 98 different media projects including movies, video games, and TV shows. He is perhaps best known as the on-off tycoon boyfriend Richard of Kim Cattrall's character in Sex and the City and as a homicidal maniac in the early 1980s thriller/comedy 48 Hrs.
r was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Largely due to his somewhat intimidating physical appearance Remar has spent the majority of his film career playing villains.
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William James Remar (born 31 December 1953) is an American actor. He has appeared in at least 98 different media projects including movies, video games, and TV shows. He is perhaps best known as the on-off tycoon boyfriend Richard of Kim Cattrall's character in Sex and the City and as a homicidal maniac in the early 1980s thriller/comedy 48 Hrs.
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Remar was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Largely due to his somewhat intimidating physical appearance Remar has spent the majority of his film career playing villains. He is known for his roles as the aggressively sexual and violent character Ajax in the 1979 cult film The Warriors, as the murdering sociopath Albert Ganz in the 1982 Eddie Murphy hit 48 Hrs. and as real-life 30s-era gangster Dutch Schultz in the 1984 film The Cotton Club. He also starred in the 1980 film Windwalker as the young Windwalker. In 1996, he played one of the main bad guys in Paramount's big budget action movie The Phantom.
Remar was cast as Hicks in the 1986 science fiction thriller Aliens, but was replaced by Michael Biehn shortly after filming began due to creative differences with director James Cameron.
Other notable films include Drugstore Cowboy, Fear X, Boys on the Side, Hellraiser: Inferno, The Quest, Wedlock, Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, 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. Then later starring in the 1996 direct to video sci-fi movie Robo Warriors.
Remar's guest appearances range from Miami Vice, Hill Street Blues, Sex and the City, Jericho, Third Watch, Justice League Unlimited and Battlestar Galactica, as well as appearing as a possessed mental patient in the X-Files ninth season episode "Daemonicus".He was in the mini series "The Grid" (2004) as Hudson "Hud" the love interest of Julianna Margulies' character. He also starred as Tiny Bellows on the short-lived TV series, The Huntress. Since 2006, he has co-starred in Dexter on Showtime; James was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Dexter Morgan's adoptive father, Harry Morgan. James also has a recurring guest role in Jericho on CBS.
Remar recently starred in the Horror/Thriller movie 'Unborn'
Remar is married and has two children.
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