James Finley Ransone III (June 2, 1979 – December 19, 2025) was an American actor and musician. He was best known for his roles as Ziggy Sobotka in the second season of the drama series The Wire, United States Marine Corps Cpl. Josh Ray Person in the war drama miniseries Generation Kill (2008), The Deputy in the supernatural horror films Sinister (2012) and Sinister 2 (2015), Chester in Tangerine (2015), the adult Eddie Kaspbrak in It Chapter Two (2019), and Max in The Black Phone movies. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Ransone, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2025Black Phone 2 — Max
• Poker Face — Juice
• 2023V/H/S/85 — Bobby (segment "Dreamkill")
• 2022The Black Phone — Max Shaw
• 2021Small Engine Repair — PJ
• 50 States of Fright — Sebastian Klepner
• 2020What We Found — Sgt. Steven Mohler
• 2019Captive State — Ellison
• 2019It Chapter Two — Eddie Kaspbrak
• 2018Doulo — Edwin
• 2018Family Blood — Christopher
• 2018Fish in the Sea — Jack
• Mosaic — Michael O'Connor
• 2018The Clapper — Darth Guy
• The First — Nick Fletcher
• 2018Tough Love — Man
• 2018Write When You Get Work — Steven Noble
• 2017Gemini — Stan
• 2017It Happened in L.A. — Heath
• SEAL Team — Reiss Julian
• 2016In a Valley of Violence — Gilly
• 2016Light Up the Night — Joe
• 2016Mr. Right — Von Cartigan
• 2015Bloomin Mud Shuffle — Lonnie
• Bosch — Eddie Arceneaux
• 2015Conventional — Stu Mac 3
• 2015Fun Size Horror: Volume Two — Stu Mac 3 (segment 'Conventional')
• 2015Sinister 2 — Ex-Deputy So & So
• 2015Tangerine — Chester
• 2015The Timber — Wyatt
• 2014Cymbeline — Philario
• 2014Electric Slide — Jan Phillips
• 2014False True Love
• 2014Fruits De Mer — George
• 2014Granted! — Larry
• 2014Kristy — Scott
• 2014This American Life: Live at BAM — David
• 2013Broken City — Todd Lancaster
• 2013Empire State — Agent Nugent
• Low Winter Sun — Damon Callis
• 2013Oldboy — Dr. Tom Melby
• 2013The Man Who Came Out Only at Night — The Man Who Came Out Only at Night
• 2013Year of the Rat
• 2012Red Hook Summer — Kevin
• 2012Sinister — Deputy
• 2012Starlet — Mikey
• 2011The Lie — Weasel
• 2011The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll — Chip Genson
• 2011The Son of No One — Officer Thomas Prudenti
• Hawaii Five-0 — Johnny D. / Perry Hutchinson
• 2010The Next Three Days — Harv
• Generation Kill — Josh Ray Person
• 2008Prom Night — Detective Nash
• Burn Notice — Dennis Wayne Barfield
• 2006Inside Man — Steve-O
• Jericho — Daryl
• 2006Puccini for Beginners — Lone Guy at Bistro
• 2005The Good Humor Man — Junebug
• 2004A Dirty Shame — Dingy Dave
• 2004Downtown: A Street Tale — Billy
• 2004Malachance — Mika
• 2003Fan Mail — Ricky
• 2003Ken Park — Tate
• 2003Nola — Neo-Gothboy
• The Wire — Chester 'Ziggy' Sobotka
• 2001The American Astronaut — Bodysuit
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Zack Capola
• Ed — Gary Morton
• Third Watch — Frankie
• Law & Order — Mark Dale, Michael Whelan

Appearances as themselves (5)

• 2022Merry F*cking Christmas: The Making of Tangerine — Self
• 2019The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends — Self
• Conan — Self - Guest
• 2010Freakonomics — Himself
• 2008Making Generation Kill — Self