William James Remar (born December 31, 1953) is an American actor. Some of his best known film roles are as Ajax in The Warriors (1979), as homicidal maniac Albert Ganz in 48 Hrs. (1982), as Dutch Schultz in The Cotton Club (1984), and as Lord Raiden in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997). He has had smaller roles in many other notable films, including Drugstore Cowboy (1989), Boys on the Side (1995), Judge Dredd (1995), Psycho (1998), What Lies Beneath (2000), 2 Fast 2 Furious (2002), Blade: Trinity (2004), Ratatouille (2007), Pineapple Express (2008), RED (2010), X-Men: First Class (2011), Django Unchained (2012), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), Oppenheimer (2023), and Megalopolis (2024). He was originally cast as Corporal Hicks in Aliens (1986) before being replaced by Michael Biehn. On television, Remar's recurring roles include Richard Wright, the on-off tycoon boyfriend of Samantha in Sex and the City (2001 - 2004), Harry Morgan in Dexter (2006 - 2013) and Dexter: Resurrection (2025 - present), the voice of Vilgax in Ben 10 (2009 - 2012), Tonraq in The Legend of Korra (2013 - 2014), and Peter Gambi in Black Lightning (2018 - 2021). He also voices Executor Hideo in the Destiny video game series. Remar has been married to Atsuko Remar since 1984. They have two children.

Filmography

• 2026The Odyssey — Tiresias
• 2026They Will Kill You — The Pig's Head (voice)
• All's Fair — Theodore Baskin
• Dexter: Resurrection — Harry Morgan
• IT: Welcome to Derry — General Francis Shaw
• 2024Drugstore June — Arnold
• 2024Megalopolis — Charles Cothope
• 2024Transformers One — Zeta Prime (voice)
• 2023Glowzies — Darlus
• 2023Oppenheimer — Henry Stimson
• Paul T. Goldman — Lt. Newman
• 2022The Noel Diary — Scott Turner
• 2020Dead Reckoning — Agent Cantrell
• Fire Over the Atlantic: The Mystery of TWA Flight 800 — Narrator
• City on a Hill — Richy Ryan
• Creepshow — Bateman
• 2019Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood — 'Bounty Law' - 'Ugly Owl'
• 2018All You Ever Wished For — Gordon Hutton
• Black Lightning — Peter Gambi
• Magnum P.I. — Captain Buck Greene
• 2018Speed Kills — Meyer Lansky
• The Rookie — Tom Bradford
• Yellowstone — Kyle Fremont
• 2017Can't Buy My Love — Rex
• 2017Feed — Tom
• 2017The Blackcoat's Daughter — Bill
• 2017The Night Watchmen — Randall
• 2017The Saint — Arnold Valecross
• Animal Kingdom — Detective Andre
• 2016Decommissioned — David Marino
• 2016The Dog Lover — Daniel Holloway
• The Shannara Chronicles — Cephelo, Cephalo
• 2016USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage — Admiral Parnell
• Code Black — General Hutch Hutchinson
• 2015Eden — Coach DaFoe
• 2015Papa Hemingway in Cuba — Santo Trafficante
• 2015Unnatural — Martin Nakos
• Gotham — Frank Gordon
• 2014Lap Dance — Patrick Moore
• 2014Persecuted — John Luther
• State of Affairs — Syd
• Beware the Batman — Silver Monkey (voice), Silver Monkey / Mr. Reese (voice)
• 2013Horns — Derrick Perrish
• 2012Ben 10: Omniverse — Vilgax (voice)
• 2012Django Unchained — Butch Pooch / Ace Speck
• The Legend of Korra — Tonraq (voice)
• 2011All Superheroes Must Die — Rickshaw
• 2011Arena — Tall Man
• Franklin & Bash — Cliff
• 2011Setup — William
• 2011The FP — Narrator (voice)
• 2011Transformers: Dark of the Moon — Sideswipe (voice)
• Wilfred — Henry Newman
• 2011X-Men: First Class — US General
• Ben 10: Ultimate Alien — Vilgax (voice)
• 2010Gun — Detective Rogers
• Hawaii Five-0 — Elliot Connor
• Human Target — Warden Cole
• Pound Puppies — Sarge (voice)
• 2010RED — Gabriel Singer
• Young Justice — Icicle Sr. (voice)
• 20092B — Tom Mortlake
• FlashForward — James Ermine
• NCIS: Los Angeles — Sterling Bridges
• 2009National Lampoon Presents: Endless Bummer — Sam Kramer
• 2009The Christmas Hope — Mark Addison
• 2009The Unborn — Gordon Beldon
• The Vampire Diaries — Giuseppe Salvatore
• Batman: The Brave and the Bold — Two-Face (voice)
• Ben 10: Alien Force — Vilgax (voice)
• Eli Stone — Salinsky
• 2008Pineapple Express — General Bratt
• Private Practice — Dr. Gibson
• 2007Ratatouille — Larousse (voice)
• 2007Sharpshooter — Dillon
• Dexter — Harry Morgan
• Jericho — Jonah Prowse
• The Unit — Reece
• Thief — Agent Patterson
• American Dad! — Charles Lindbergh Sr. (voice)
• Criminal Minds — Tom Benton
• Grey's Anatomy — Jimmy Evans
• Numb3rs — Randall Priest
• 2004American Meltdown — Colonel Boggs
• Battlestar Galactica — Meier
• 2004Blade: Trinity — Ray Cumberland
• 2004Ike: Countdown to D-Day — General Omar Bradley
• Justice League Unlimited — Carter Hall (voice), Hawkman / Shadow Thief (voice)
• North Shore — Vincent Colville
• The Batman — Black Mask (voice)
• 2004The Girl Next Door — Hugo Posh
• The Grid
• 2004The Survivors Club — Roan Griffin
• 20032 Fast 2 Furious — Agent Markham
• 2003Betrayal — Alex Tyler
• 2003Duplex — Chick
• 2003Fear X — Peter
• Peacemakers — Cole Hawkins
• CSI: Miami — Quentin Taylor
• The Twilight Zone — Alois Hitler
• Without a Trace — Lucas Vohland
• 2001Dying on the Edge — Jackie James
• 2001Guardian — Detective Carpenter
• Justice League — Lead Manhunter (voice)
• 2000Blowback — John Matthew Whitman / Schmidt
• 2000Hellraiser: Inferno — Dr. Paul Gregory
• Strong Medicine — Guy Falls
• 2000The Base 2: Guilty as Charged — Lt. Col. Strauss
• 2000The Huntress — Tiny Bellows
• The Huntress — Tiny Bellows
• 2000What Lies Beneath — Warren Feur
• 1999Born Bad
• 1999D.R.E.A.M. Team — Shawn Murphy
• 1999Double Frame
• 1999Rites of Passage — Frank Dabbo
• Third Watch — Detective Madjanski
• 1998Inferno — Dr. Coleman West
• 1998Psycho — Patrolman
• Sex and the City — Richard Wright
• 1997Mortal Kombat: Annihilation — Raiden
• Total Security
• 7th Heaven — James Carver
• Nash Bridges — Mark Lee Page
• 1996One Good Turn — Simon Jury
• 1996Robo Warriors — Ray Gibson
• 1996The Phantom — Quill
• 1996The Quest — Maxie Devine
• 1995Boys on the Side — Alex
• 1995Judge Dredd — Block Warlord (uncredited)
• 1995The Surgeon — Dr. Benjamin Hendricks
• 1995Wild Bill — Donnie Lonigan
• 1994Across the Moon — Rattlesnake Jim
• 1994Confessions of a Hitman — Bruno Serrano
• 1994Miracle on 34th Street — Jack Duff
• 1994Renaissance Man — Captain Tom Murdoch
• 1993Blink — Thomas Ridgely
• 1993Fatal Instinct — Max Shady
• The X-Files — Josef Kobold
• Walker, Texas Ranger — Keith Bolt
• 1992Indecency — Mick Clarkson
• 1992Strangers — Bernard (The Last Game)
• 1992The Tigress — Andrei
• 1991Brotherhood of the Gun — Frank Weir
• 1991Session Man — McQueen
• 1991Wedlock — Sam
• 1991White Fang — Beauty Smith
• 1990Fatal Charm — Louis
• 1990Kojak: None So Blind — Wolfgang Reiger
• 1990Night Visions — Sergeant Thomas Mackey
• 1990Tales from the Darkside: The Movie — Preston (segment ‘Lover’s Vow’)
• 1989Desperado: The Outlaw Wars — John Sikes
• 1989Drugstore Cowboy — Gentry
• 1989Silence Like Glass — Charly
• Tales from the Crypt — Red Buckley
• 1989The Dream Team — Gianelli
• 1987Rent-a-Cop — Dancer
• 1986Band of the Hand — Nestor
• 1986Quiet Cool — Joe Dylanne
• 1986The Clan of the Cave Bear — Creb
• The Equalizer — Tremayne
• Miami Vice — Robbie Cann
• 1984The Cotton Club — Dutch Schultz
• The Mystic Warrior — Pesla
• The Hitchhiker — Ron
• 198248 Hrs. — Albert Ganz
• 1982Partners — Edward K. Petersen
• Hill Street Blues
• 1980Cruising — Gregory
• 1980The Long Riders — Sam Starr
• 1980Windwalker — Windwalker (young)
• 1979The Warriors — Ajax
• 1978On the Yard — Larson

Appearances as themselves (7)

• 2020Tales Behind The Darkside: The Making Of Four Ghoulish Fables — Himself
• The Movies That Made Us — Self
• 2007The Warriors: Battleground — Self
• 2007The Warriors: The Beginning — Self
• 2007The Warriors: The Phenomenon — Self
• 2007The Warriors: The Way Home — Self
• 1999Psycho Path — Self