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Brion James

Highest Rated: 100% The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1983)

Lowest Rated: 0% The Horror Show (1989)

Birthday: Feb 20, 1945

Birthplace: Beaumont, California, USA

A tall (6'3"), strapping and versatile character player of film and TV since the mid-1970s, Brion James, with his malicious smile and leering eyes, quickly became established playing oddball heavies, lowlifes and hicks in genre fare, notably in collaboration with action guru Walter Hill in "Hard Times" (1975), "The Driver" (1978), "Southern Comfort" (1981), "48 Hours" (1982) and "Another 48 Hours" (1990). He may be best known as Leon, a memorably murderous replicant who gives Harrison Ford a hard time in Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" (1982). James uttered one of the films most memorable lines: "Wake up ... time to die!"

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Highest rated movies

100% 72% The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
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97% 84% The Player
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94% 90% Blade Runner: The Final Cut
Watchlist 92% 69% 48 HRS. Watchlist 89% 91% Blade Runner Watchlist
86% 63% Flesh & Blood
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78% 75% Southern Comfort
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71% 42% Nemesis
Watchlist 71% 87% The Fifth Element Watchlist
62% 29% D.O.A.
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Brion James

Brion James STEEL DAWN, Brion James (left), 1987, © Vestron Pictures TANGO & CASH, from left: Sylvester Stallone, Brion James, Kurt Russell, 1989, © Warner Brothers CORVETTE SUMMER, Mark Hamill, Brion James (in car), 1978, (c) MGM SOUTHERN COMFORT, Powers Boothe (left), center from left: Alan Autry, Keith Carradine, Franklyn Seales, right from left: Lewis Smith, Brion James, Fred Ward, 1981, TM & Copyright © 20th Century Fox Film Corp. SOUTHERN COMFORT, Fred Ward (back to camera), without helmet from left: Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Brion James (beard), Alan Autry, Lewis Smith, 1981, TM & Copyright © 20th Century Fox Film Corp. ENEMY MINE, Dennis Quaid (center), Brion James (far right), 1985, TM and Copyright (c)20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. SOUTHERN COMFORT, Brion James, Fred Ward, Powers Boothe, 1981. TM and Copyright ©20th Century-Fox Film Corp. All Rights Reserved. THE WRONG GUYS, Louie Anderson, Tim Thomerson, Richard Belzer, Franklyn Ajaye, Richard Lewis, Biff Manard, Brion James, 1988, (c)New World Pictures THE OPERATOR, Brion James, 2000, (c) First Look Pictures View more photos

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Phoenix Point Spider Rico (Character) - 2005
No Score Yet 44% Farewell, My Love Renault (Character) - 2001
60% 58% The King Is Alive Ashley (Character) $103.5K 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet Un Peligroso Rescate Unknown (Character) - 2000
45% 57% The Operator Vernon Woods (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet 29% Dirt Merchant Detective Harry Ball (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet 18% Arthur's Quest Trent (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Black Sea 213 Captain Killick (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet 40% The Hunter's Moon Sheriff Foulkes (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Joseph's Gift Frank Childress (Character) - 1998
50% 33% Brown's Requiem Cathcart (Character) $3.1K 1998
0% 80% In God's Hands Captain (Character) $1.4M 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Kai Rabe vs. the Vatican Killers Mönch (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Thief and the Stripper Shoe (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet 40% National Lampoon's Men in White General (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Setting Son Junior (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet 0% Bombshell Donald (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet 60% The Killing Jar Dr. Vincent Garret (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Heist Caz (Character) - 1997
71% 87% The Fifth Element General Munro (Character) $63.7M 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Deadly Ransom Bobby Rico (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet 30% Snide & Prejudice Hermann Goering (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Place Called Truth Hank (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Evil Obsession Stavinski (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Assault on Dome 4 Chairman (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet 20% Back in Business Emery Ryker (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Malevolence Warden Walker (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet 20% Pterodactyl Woman From Beverly Hills Salvador Dali/Sam (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lazarus Man Unknown (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Marco Polo: The Missing Chapter Unknown (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet 64% American Strays Oris (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet 8% Precious Find Sam Horton (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet 56% Sketch Artist II: Hands That See Larry Walker (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet 46% Steel Frontier General J.W. Quantrell (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet 38% Dominion Lynwood (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet 16% Virtual Assassin Nassim (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet 49% The Nature of the Beast Sheriff Gordon (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet Last Chance Unknown (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet 52% The Dark Paul Buckner (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet 43% Hong Kong '97 Simon Alexander (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet Savage Land Cyrus (Character) - 1994
33% 60% Radioland Murders Bernie King (Character) $1.2M 1994
48% 42% Cabin Boy Big Teddy (Character) $3.5M 1994
No Score Yet 33% The Soft Kill Ben McCarthy (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet 50% F.T.W. Sheriff Rudy Morgan (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet Art Deco Detective Jim Wexler (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet 68% Showdown Vice Principal Kowalski (Character) - 1993
No Score Yet 18% Future Shock Jack Porter (Character) - 1993
No Score Yet 26% Scanner Cop Dr. Hampton (Character) - 1993
No Score Yet 33% Rio Diablo Jake Walker (Character) - 1993
20% 35% Striking Distance Det. Eddie Eiler (Character) $23.8M 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wishman Staten Jack Rose (Character) - 1993
No Score Yet 44% Brain Smasher... A Love Story Brown (Character) - 1993
71% 42% Nemesis Maritz (Character) - 1992
No Score Yet 6% Time Runner Neila (Character) - 1992
97% 84% The Player Joel Levison (Character) $21.7M 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet Beyond the Silhouette Wolfgang Friedman (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet 34% Mom Nestor Duvalier (Character) - 1990
19% 35% Another 48 HRS. Ben Kehoe (Character) $78.1M 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet Circles in a Forest Mr. Patterson (Character) - 1990
No Score Yet 38% Enid Is Sleeping Trucker (Character) - 1990
0% 28% The Horror Show Max Jenke (Character) $1.4M 1989
17% 35% Red Scorpion Krasnov (Character) $3.5M 1989
31% 52% Tango & Cash Requin (Character) $61.8M 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet Time of the Beast David Allen (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mutator David Allen (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet 24% Nightmare at Noon The Albino (Character) - 1988
38% 41% Cherry 2000 Stacy (Character) - 1988
No Score Yet 51% The Wrong Guys Glen Grunski (Character) $601.3K 1988
62% 29% D.O.A. Detective Ulmer (Character) $12.7M 1988
No Score Yet 17% Love Among Thieves Andre (Character) - 1987
No Score Yet 34% Steel Dawn Tark (Character) $311.9K 1987
No Score Yet 56% Dead Man Walking Decker (Character) - 1987
9% 39% Armed and Dangerous Anthony Lazarus (Character) $15.4M 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Annihilator Alien Leader (Character) - 1986
57% 47% Crimewave Arthur Coddish (Character) - 1985
86% 63% Flesh & Blood Karsthans (Character) - 1985
59% 68% Enemy Mine Stubbs (Character) $12.3M 1985
No Score Yet 37% A Breed Apart Hughie Peyton (Character) - 1984
100% 72% The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez Captain Rogers (Character) - 1983
94% 90% Blade Runner: The Final Cut Leon (Character) - 1982
92% 69% 48 HRS. Ben Kehoe (Character) - 1982
89% 91% Blade Runner Leon (Character) $3.9M 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hear No Evil Billy Boy Burns (Character) - 1982
78% 75% Southern Comfort Trapper (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Yeagers Eddie Rhodes (Character) - 1980
56% 42% Corvette Summer Wayne's Car Wash Henchman (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Flying High Unknown (Character) - 1978

TV

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33% No Score Yet The Magnificent Seven Unknown (Guest Star) 1998-1999
19% No Score Yet Vengeance Unlimited Unknown (Guest Star) 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Sentinel Unknown (Guest Star) 1998
No Score Yet 86% Millennium Unknown (Guest Star) 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Walker, Texas Ranger Unknown (Guest Star) 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Marshal Unknown (Guest Star) 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet Silk Stalkings Rupert Tarlow (Character) 1994
82% 90% Tales From the Crypt Unknown (Character) 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hunter Thomas Duffy (Guest Star) 1988 1991
71% 89% Miami Vice Unknown (Guest Star) 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Hitchhiker Unknown (Character) 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Matlock Unknown (Guest Star) 1987
No Score Yet 78% Amazing Stories Unknown (Character) 1985
No Score Yet 71% The A-Team David Plout (Guest Star) 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Dukes of Hazzard Jenkins (Guest Star) 1982 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet Little House on the Prairie Amos (Guest Star) 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet CHiPs Unknown (Guest Star) 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Jeffersons Dirty Dog (Guest Star) 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet B.J. and the Bear Unknown (Guest Star) 1979
90% No Score Yet Mork & Mindy Unknown (Guest Star) 1978
No Score Yet 74% Incredible Hulk Unknown (Guest Star) 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Chico and the Man Unknown (Guest Star) 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gunsmoke Joe Barnes (Guest Star) 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Waltons Unknown (Guest Star) 1974