Biography
Peter Francis James (born September 16, 1956) is an American actor and voice-over artist, distinguished by his strong baritone.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
2018
as Dr. Baum
Over the course of 12 years, and three stages of life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of a generation and then disappears without a trace.

Noël Coward's Present Laughter
2017
as Henry Lyppiatt
A self-obsessed actor in the midst of a mid-life crisis juggles a fawning ingenue, a crazed playwright, his ex-wife, and the personal lives of his fri...

Rough Night
2017
as Jack Eason
Five best friends from college reunite 10 years later for a wild bachelorette weekend in Miami. Their hard partying takes a hilariously dark turn when...

True Story
2015
as Colin Parker
A drama centered on the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outsi...

The Humbling
2014
as Kent
Following a breakdown and suicide attempt, an aging actor becomes involved with a much younger woman but soon finds that it's difficult to keep pace w...

Song One
2014
as Neurosurgeon
Estranged from her family, Franny returns home when an accident leaves her brother comatose. Retracing his life as an aspiring musician, she tracks do...

The Pack
2011
as Marc Forrest
A young man testifies against his mother for killing the father with secondhand smoke.

The Losers
2010
as Fadhil
On a mission deep in the Bolivian jungle, a team of elite commandos finds itself on the receiving end of a lethal betrayal. Now presumed dead, the men...

The Messenger
2009
as Dr. Grosso
Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has returned home from Iraq, is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service. Montgomery is pa...

The Rebound
2009
as Doctor
Upon discovering her husband's infidelity, Sandy leaves the suburbs and moves into the city. There, she befriends Aram, a guy whose wife only married ...

The Rosa Parks Story
2002
as Raymond Parks
A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.

Love Song
2000
as Alfred Livingston
A privileged, black college student with a fiance falls in love with a white musician she meets on her 21st birthday.

Joe Gould's Secret
2000
as Man at Party
Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Jo...

Double Platinum
1999
as Martin Holly
The story of a mother driven to reach the heights of superstardom at the cost of abandoning her only child.

The Wedding
1998
as Isaac Coles
Shelby Coles (Halle Berry) is engaged to marry talented white jazz musician Meade Howell, but the pair face opposition from both Meade's family, who o...

Ruby Bridges
1998
as Dr. Broyard
When six-year-old Ruby Bridges is chosen to be the first African-American to integrate her local elementary school, she is subjected to the true uglin...

Montana
1998
as Lawrence
A seasoned enforcer is given the seemingly routine task of finding the Boss's runaway mistress, Kitty. However Kitty is involved in plans to overthrow...

The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez
1991
as Janitor
Featuring music instead of any dialogue and set in a near Kafkaesque future, this loose remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari follows a bureaucrat who...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet
1990
as Horatio
A Danish prince and university student avenges his father's murder by his uncle, who stole the crown and married his mother.

Long Day's Journey Into Night
1982
as Edmund Tyrone
Over the course of one day in August 1912, the family of retired actor James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of his wife Mary, the illness...

Coriolanus
1979
as Volscian Citizen / Roman Soldier / Volscian Soldier
A video recording of a New York Shakespeare Festival 1979 stage production of Coriolanus with an all-black and Hispanic cast. Producer Joseph Papp int...