James Rolfe is an American filmmaker, actor, YouTuber, and online personality. He is best known for creating and starring in the YouTube webshow Angry Video Game Nerd, a joint production between Rolfe's Cinemassacre Productions, GameTrailers, and ScrewAttack.

Filmography

• 2024Are You Dead Yet? — Police Dispatcher
• 2023Millie's Care Free Day — Thanks
• Neighbor Nerds — Self, Creator
• 2022Mom n' Pop: The Indie Video Store Boom of the 80s/90s
• Smiling Friends — Screamer
• 2020The Head Returns — Doc/Bob, Producer, Special Effects, Writer, Director
• 2017Mimal the Elf — Director
• 2017Return to... Return to Nuke 'Em High aka Vol. 2 — The Angry Video Game Nerd
• 2016Flying Fuckernauts vs. The Astro Bastards — The Fuckernaut/Narrator/The Angry Video Game Nerd, Director, Writer
• 2016Shooting Clerks — Leonard James Nash
• 2015Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: The Game - The Movie — Gravedigger (uncredited), Director, Writer
• 2015Plan 9 — Policeman
• 2014Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie — The Nerd, Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Characters, Executive Producer
• James & Mike Mondays — Himself, Creator
• 2010The Dragon In My Dreams — Himself, Director, Writer
• Board James — Board James, Director, Creator
• 2008Cinemassacre 200 — Himself, Director
• 2008Rocky Jumped a Park Bench — Himself, Director
• Cinemassacre's Monster Madness — Himself, Creator
• 2007Return Of The Ghostbusters — The Angry Video Game Nerd
• You Know What's Bullshit? — The Bullshit Man, Creator
• 2006Wizard of Oz 3: Dorothy Goes to Hell — Narrator, Director, Writer
• 2005The Deader the Better — Suit Zombie (uncredited), Writer, Director, Producer, Cinematography, Editor, Set Designer
• 2005The Mexican Mummy — Narrator, Director, Writer
• 2004Beer Man — Beer Man (as Beer Man), Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
• 2004Legend of the Blue Hole — Narrator, Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Special Effects, Visual Effects, Animation
• The Angry Video Game Nerd — The Nerd, Director, Writer, Editor, Creator
• 2003Curse of the Cat Lover's Grave — Man eating pasta, Director, Writer
• 2001Cinemaphobia — The Film Actor, Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
• 2001It Came from Beyond the Toilet — Face in the dark (uncredited), Director, Writer
• 2001Kung Fu Werewolf from Outer Space — Voice of Ninjas, Director, Writer
• 2001Stoney — Mark Margolis (uncredited), Director, Writer, Original Concept
• 1999The Head Incident — Dr. Memrix/Bob, Writer, Director, Producer, Editor
• 1998The Banishing of the Evil Spirit of Snix — Jim/Snix/Xins (as James D. Rolfe), Director, Writer
• 1998The Possessed Mask of Snix — Jim/Xins/Snix (as James D. Rolfe), Director, Writer
• 1998The Rotten Corpse of Snix — Jim/Xins (as James D. Rolfe), Director, Writer
• 1997Red Zombie — Zombie Master (uncredited), Director, Writer
• 1997Snix Again — Jim/Xins, Director, Writer
• 1996A Night of Total Terror — Theif, Director, Writer
• 1996Snix: The Return — Jim/Xins, Director, Writer
• 1993Snix — Jim, Director, Writer
• Bits — Angry Video Game Nerd

Appearances as themselves (11)

• 2025George A. Romero's Resident Evil — Self
• TerrorBytes: The Evolution of Horror Gaming — Self
• 2023FPS: First Person Shooter — Self
• 2022In Search of Darkness: Part III — Self
• 2021Rarity: Retro Video Game Collecting in the Modern Era — Self
• 2020In Search of Darkness: Part II — Self
• 2020VHS Massacre Too — Self
• 2019In Search of Darkness — Self
• 2019Not for Resale — Self
• 2002ROLFE: A No-Budget Dream — Self
• Macleod: There Can Be Only One — Self