Biography
Brion Howard James (February 20, 1945 – August 7, 1999) was an American character actor. Known for playing the character of Leon Kowalski in the movie Blade Runner, James portrayed a variety of colorful roles in well-known American films such as 48 Hrs., Another 48 Hours, Tango & Cash, Silverado, Red Heat, The Player and The Fifth Element. James' commanding screen presence and formidable physique at 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) tall usually resulted in his casting as a heavy, appearing more frequent...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Swimming with Dolphins
2005
Long suspected of possessing an intelligence that rivals a human's, the dolphin has proved especially apt at making strides with autistic children and...

Phoenix Point
2005
as Spider Rico
When the apocalypse arrives, it takes the form of a biochemical virus. All social structures break down and a new world order emerges from the heart o...

The Thief & the Stripper
2002
as Shoe
When a former private investigator steals a briefcase from local mobsters, a stripper joins him on the run.

The King Is Alive
2000
as Ashley
Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an abandoned town. As rescue grows more remote by th...

The Operator
2000
as Vernon Woods
A scoundrel is tormented by a seemingly-omniscent telephone operator.

Farewell, My Love
2000
as Renault
Brigit as a young girl saw her family killed by the Karpovs, a Russian crime family, she would have been dead too, if her neighbor did not come to her...

Diplomatic Siege
1999
as Stubbs
When Steve Mitchell is clandestinely sent to the US embassy in Bucharest, Romania to disarm a nuclear bomb that has secretly remained in the building ...

The Hunter's Moon
1999
as Sheriff Foulkes
A violent and dangerous tyrant who dominates the inhabitants of a mountain sees his authority threatened by the arrival of a World War I veteran and d...

Dirt Merchant
1999
as Detective Harry Ball
A slacker turns P.I. to solve a rock star's murder.

Heist
1999
as Caz
Four ruthless career criminals are brought together by desperation and greed in a devious attempt to sing a rival underworld boss. Dipper is the conta...

Arthurs Quest
1999
as Trent
To escape the clutches of the evil warrior and sorceress Morgana, Merlin transports young King Arthur into modern day America. When Merlin comes back ...

Malevolence
1999
as Warden Walker
A young prisoner tells his story to an FBI agent. How unjust judicial system, systematic abuse inside and political corruption and machinations outsid...

Joseph's Gift
1999
as Frank Childress
Joseph is the youngest member of a large family that owns a successful garment business in Los Angeles. His father, Jacob, makes no attempt at hiding ...

Kai Rabe gegen die Vatikankiller
1998
as Monk
Director Rufus Lindner is shooting his first film: " Die Vatikankiller". With audience favorite Kai Rabe in the leading role, success is guaranteed. B...

Brown's Requiem
1998
as Cathcart
Fritz Brown is an ex-LAPD, recovering alcoholic who now splits his time repossessing cars for a used car lot and staffing his one-man private detectiv...

Deadly Ransom
1998
as Bobby Rico
A wealthy banker and his daughter are kidnapped by a gang of thugs. The girl's boyfriend, who serves in the special units of the US Navy, is in posses...

Men in White
1998
as Air Force
National Lampoon's Men in White is a straight-to-television satirical parody of contemporary science fiction movies, mainly spoofing Men in Black and ...

A Place Called Truth
1998
as Hank
Love, pride and jealousy are aroused when a ranch owner's daughter, called Lizzie, has an affair with a cowboy. Meanwhile a mysterious woman seduces t...

In God's Hands
1998
as Capitaine
Three pro surfers - gifted Shane, once-great Mickey and rising young star Keoni travel to Madagascar, Bali and Hawaii in search for the ultimate wave.

Jekyll Island
1998
as Lawton Goodyear
To Professor Alex Madison, the world's greatest jewel thief, stealing is a fine art and the ultimate thrill. Now, he faces his greatest challenge. O...

Black Sea 213
1998
as Captain Killick
Mercenaries selling nuclear arms on the black market pose as models so they can set up an innocent photographer to take the blame.

The Underground
1997
as Captain Hilton
A cop must stop the killings of rap stars. But, he gets in too deep after his partner is killed.

Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills
1997
as Salvador Dali / Sam
Pixie is cursed with turning into a Pterodactyl when her husband is caught messing with bones on an ancient burial ground. Her husband, children, frie...

Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills
1997
Associate Producer
Pixie is cursed with turning into a Pterodactyl when her husband is caught messing with bones on an ancient burial ground. Her husband, children, frie...

Bombshell
1997
as Donald
Characters in a bio technological firm utilize nanotechnology (miniature, smart robots) to control others for their own good.

Back in Business
1997
as Emery Ryker
An ex-cop gets pulled back in an undercover mission for the FBI by his former partner. The mission is to catch drug runners, but it is also sting oper...

The Killing Jar
1997
as Dr. Vincent Garret
Michael Sanford and his wife move to his old town so he can take over the family business. However, gruesome murders of children start to happen. Mean...

Snide and Prejudice
1997
as Hermann Goering
At a mental institution, the resident physician, Dr Cohen, encourages his patients who believe they are important Nazi figures to act out their fantas...

The Fifth Element
1997
as General Munro
In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.

Assault on Dome 4
1996
as Chairman
In this science-fiction action opus, intergalactic extremist Alex Windham has seized control of Dome 4, a scientific outpost on another planet, after ...

Evil Obsession
1996
as Stavinski
As models show up on calendars and magazine covers, someone is making bodies show up at the morgue. Is it the obsessed fan?

American Strays
1996
as Oris
Somewhere on the fringe of society, ten dangerous strangers are on a road to Red's Desert Oasis Diner. Packing more fire power than the LA police forc...

Precious Find
1996
as Sam Horton
The year is 2049. 200 years after the great Californian goldrush. The new generation of gold diggers are just as full of gold fever as their ancestors...

Billy Lone Bear
1996
An honest cop named Billy Bear hides from the IRA in an Indian reservation. The problem is, the IRA's assassin is a bad cop. On the reservation, Billy...

Indecent Behavior III
1995
as Andy Cowens (uncredited)
A sex therapist finds herself forced to cooperate with the police in tracking down a killer who has been targeting other sex therapists by using her a...

Nature of the Beast
1995
as Sheriff Gordon
Two men, both hiding a deadly secret, are on a murderous rampage through the desert.

Cyberjack
1995
as Nassim
In the near future Nassim, terrorist leader, storms computer company headquarters. His aim is deadly computer virus that could bring him world dominat...

Dominion
1995
as Lynwood
A hunting expedition goes awry when another hunter decides to make the hunters the hunted.

Steel Frontier
1995
as General J.W. Quantrell
Set in a post-nuclear-holocaust future, this sci-fi western takes place in the frontier city of New Hope, the only place around with a working oil ref...

Sketch Artist II: Hands That See
1995
as Larry Walker
Police sketch artist Jack Whitfield helps blind rape victim Emmy describe her attacker – a serial rapist and murderer who is now out to get her.

Spitfire
1995
as Tough Guy (uncredited)
A sultry assassin is the target of two separate operatives in this globe-trotting action flick shot on location in the Bahamas, Athens, Rome and Hong ...

Hong Kong 97
1994
as Simon Alexander
Hong Kong 97 takes place in Hong Kong right before the transfer of power from Britain to China. Reginald Cameron, an assassin affiliated with a large ...

The Soft Kill
1994
as Ben McCarthy
Private investigator and former police detective Jack Ramsey is enjoying an affair with the local district attorney's wife, but no longer, after she i...

Radioland Murders
1994
as Bernie King
A series of mysterious crimes threatens the existence of a new radio network.

The Companion
1994
as Ron Cocheran
In the near-distant future, a female romance writer is planning to write her next book in a remote mountain cabin. A friend convinces her to bring alo...

Art Deco Detective
1994
as Jim Wexler
While investigating the murder of a movie star, a detective finds that he himself is being set up for the crime.

Savage Land
1994
as Cyrus
Two women and two kids are stranded in the Old West when bad guys (posing as Indians) try to snag the stagecoach's cargo. Pitted against nature, time,...

Scanner Cop
1994
as Dr. Hampton
Rookie cop Sam Staziak has a unique gift: he is a Scanner, which gives him the power to read the thoughts of others, and also to inflict great bodily ...

F.T.W.
1994
as Sheriff Rudy Morgan
A man and a woman running from their pasts are trapped on a collision course with the future. Frank T. Wells, a newly-released ex-con looking for a fe...

Knight Rider 2010
1994
as Jared
Loosely based on the popular television series of the 80's, this movie brings the story into an apocalyptic time and a new "KITT".

Future Shock
1994
as Jack Porter
A psychiatrist uses virtual reality to probe the minds of three unsuspecting patients, unleashing horrific psychic forces in the process.

Cabin Boy
1994
as Big Teddy
A foul-mouthed finishing school graduate mistakenly winds up on an ill-fated fishing boat, and faces the wrath of a crew that considers him bad luck.

Brain Smasher... A Love Story
1993
as Brown
A professional model, Sam Crain, is asked by her sister to smuggle a package from Europe to Portland Oregon, where she discovers that her sister is ba...

The Dark
1993
as Paul Buckner
Something is alive beneath the surface of the graveyard. Something with the power to destroy and the power to heal. One man, a cop, is determined to k...

Precious Victims
1993
as Agent Jimmy Bivens
Paula and Robert Sims are desperate: their 12 days old baby has been kidnapped! Since there's no trace of the kidnappers, they address the public for ...

Striking Distance
1993
as Det. Eddie Eiler
Coming from a police family, Tom Hardy ends up fighting his uncle after the murder of his father. Tom believes the killer is another cop, and goes on ...

Showdown
1993
as Vice Principal Kowalski
Ken has just moved from Kansas with his mother. He talks to a girl named Julie, not knowing that her boyfriend Tom is very possessive of her. Tom is l...

Time Runner
1993
as Neila
During the alien invasion of 2022, one man flees through a wormhole to 1992, where attempt after attempt is made to catch and kill him.

Rio Diablo
1993
as Jake Walker
Kenny Roger's leaves his good-guy image behind as the rugged, gutsy Quentin Leach, a bounty hunter with a quick temper and a trigger finger to match. ...

Nemesis
1992
as Maritz
In the future, chaos is rampant as 'information terrorists' threaten to destroy order in society. Alex is a part-man, part-machine LAPD cop who is the...

Frogtown II
1992
as Prof. Tanzer
In the sequel to Hell Comes to Frogtown, the Mutant-Frog leader of Frogtown kidnaps a professor and forces him to make a serum that will turn everyone...

Black Magic
1992
as Tom McKay
A young man is tormented by visions of his dead cousin who attempts to warn him of a Witch capable of casting deadly spells!

Wishman
1992
as Staten Jack Rose
Basie is a man who collects junk and tries to make something out of it. He is also in love with Lily, a woman he has never spoken to but salutes every...

The Player
1992
as Joel Levison
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

Ultimate Desires
1991
as Wolfgang Friedman
Samantha Stewart is a successful public defender whose life gets turned upside-down one night when a prostitute named Vicki gets thrown out of a limo ...

Mom
1990
as Nestor Duvalier
During a time when the city of Los Angeles is terrorized by animal attack style murders, a kindly elderly lady provides a nomad with room and board. I...

Another 48 Hrs.
1990
as Ben Kehoe
For the past four years, San Francisco cop Jack Cates has been after an unidentified drug kingpin who calls himself the Ice Man. Jack finds a picture ...

Street Asylum
1990
as Reverend Mony
In the bleak near future Los Angeles has become a dangerous war zone with cops pitted against assorted law-breaking lowlifes. Sergeant Arliss Ryder (w...

Enid Is Sleeping
1990
as Trucker
Enid only looks like she's sleeping. In fact, she's dead. Shortly after Enid caught her husband Harry in bed with her sister June, a row ensued, where...

Tango & Cash
1989
as Requin
Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are two successful narcotics detectives who can't stand each other. Crime lord Yves Perret, furious at the loss of income t...

Desperado: The Outlaw Wars
1989
as Roy Grimes
Duell McCall visits his old girlfriend, Nora, and learns that she gave birth to his child. He wants to stay but he is still a wanted man. So, Sherif...

Circles in a Forest
1989
as Mr. Patterson
Saul Barnard grew up in a family of woodcutters. The woodcutters are scared of the elephants in the forest, but there's one elephant that never seems ...

Mutator
1989
as David Allen
A beast gets loose in a laboratory, killing all in it's way. A former scientist, now working as a custodian tries to stop it.

The Horror Show
1989
as Max Jenke
Vowing revenge on the detective who apprehended him, serial killer "Meat Cleaver" Max Jenke returns from beyond the grave to launch a whole new reign ...
Z-TV
1989
as Self
"Z TV" was intended as a weekly half hour show, with a focus on all that was current in the world of horror, fantasy, and science fiction; hosted by J...

Red Scorpion
1988
as Krasnov
A Russian KGB agent is sent to Africa to kill an anti-Communist black revolutionary. However, he has a change of heart when he sees how the Russians a...

Dead Man Walking
1988
as Decker
After Leila, his boss's daughter, is kidnapped by psychopathic plague victim Decker, chauffeur Chazz teams up with plague-infected mercenary Luger to ...

Nightmare at Noon
1988
as The Albino
Scientists poison the water supply of a small town, turning the residents into homicidal maniacs who kill each other and anybody who passes through.

Red Heat
1988
as Streak
A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord w...

The Wrong Guys
1988
as Glen Grunski
Five former cub scouts have a reunion and go camping on the mountain they never conquered. High jinks ensue due to their childhood enemies and a group...

D.O.A.
1988
as Detective Ulmer
Dexter Cornell, an English Professor becomes embroiled in a series of murders involving people around him. Dexter has good reason to want to find the ...

Cherry 2000
1987
as Stacy
When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson t...

Steel Dawn
1987
as Tark
In a post-apocalyptic world, a warrior wandering through the desert comes upon a group of settlers who are being menaced by a murderous gang that is a...

Love Among Thieves
1987
as Andre
Caroline DuLac, a baroness and concert pianist, steals three jewel-encrusted Faberge eggs from a San Francisco museum. The eggs were demanded as ranso...

Armed and Dangerous
1986
as Anthony Lazarus
After policeman Frank Dooley is framed for theft and loses his job on the force, he joins a security guard agency and teams up with inept former defen...

Amazing Stories
1986
as Willie Joe
A feature film edited from three episodes of Amazing Stories (1985): The Mission, Mummy Daddy and Go to the Head of the Class.

Annihilator
1986
as Alien Leader
Humanoid killer robots stalk a newspaperman, who has knowledge of their existence. One of the robots is made to look like his girl friend.

Enemy Mine
1985
as Stubbs
A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy specie...

Flesh + Blood
1985
as Karsthans
A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague ...

Silverado
1985
as Hobart
Four unwitting heroes cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. Little do they know the town where their family and friends reside...

Crimewave
1985
as Arthur Coddish
Fed up of his business partner, Ernest Trend hires the services of two exterminators. When things go drastically wrong and they murder the wrong man, ...

A Breed Apart
1984
as Peyton
A conservationist and a widow meet a mountain climber hired to steal bald-eagle eggs.

The Gambler: The Adventure Continues
1983
as Reece
Brady Hawkes, Billy Montana, and Jeremiah Hawkes are on a train bound for a huge gambling event when the train is taken over by a gang of vicious kill...

The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
1983
as Captain Rogers
Forced to run from Texas Rangers after a heated misunderstanding leads to the death of a lawman, Mexican American farmer Gregorio Cortez sets off in d...

48 Hrs.
1982
as Ben Kehoe
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.

Hear No Evil
1982
as Billy Boy Burns
A cop who became deaf as the result of a fight tries to break up a drug ring run by bikers.

Blade Runner
1982
as Leon
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have ...

Killing at Hell's Gate
1981
as Turkey Jones
A whitewater rafting party is terrorized by a group of loggers who, after accidentally killing one of the rafters in a drunken session of target pract...

Soggy Bottom, U.S.A.
1981
as Defalice
In a small Southern town, the local sheriff tries to keep everything peaceful and under control.

Southern Comfort
1981
as Trapper
A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing ...

The Postman Always Rings Twice
1981
as Crapshooter
The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.

Conquest of the Earth
1980
as Willy
A compilation of Battlestar Galactica episodes 1–3 and 7–9, with alternate footage. The Galactica and its ragtag fleet of ships finally arrive on Eart...

The Jazz Singer
1980
as Man in Bar
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.

Trouble in High Timber Country
1980
as Eddie Rhodes
A proud patriarch battles union organizers and a powerful conglomerate threatening the family-owned lumber and mining operation which he runs with his...

Wholly Moses
1980
as Guard at Banquet
Harvey and Zoey, two tourists in Israel, discover an ancient scroll about Herschel, the man who was almost Moses. Herschel receives the command from G...

KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park
1978
as Guard
The tale of rock band KISS and their efforts to thwart a diabolical plan by mad scientist Abner Devereaux. Devereaux has found a way to clone humans i...

Flying High
1978
as Clyde Boyer
In this pilot film to the subsequent short-lived series, three attractive young women -- Marcy Bower, Pam Bellagio, and Lisa Benton -- succeed in qual...

Corvette Summer
1978
as Wayne's Car Wash Henchman
Ken loves to design and build exotic cars. When the High School shop class project car, a fully tricked out dream Corvette, is stolen, he begins searc...

Blue Sunshine
1977
as Tony
At a party, someone goes insane and murders three women. Falsely accused of the brutal killings, Jerry is on the run. More bizarre homicides continue ...

Nickelodeon
1976
as Bailiff
In the silent film era, attorney Leo Harrigan and gunslinger Buck Greenway are hired to stop an illegal film production. However, they soon team up wi...

Bound for Glory
1976
as Pick Up Truck Driver at the Border
A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, discovering th...

The Invasion of Johnson County
1976
as Ben Jones
A free-spirited Bostonian recently arrived in the West teams up with a crusty Wyoming cowboy to stop a land baron's attempts to drive out a group of s...

Treasure of Matecumbe
1976
as Roustabout
In post-Civil War Kentucky, young David Burnic becomes the unexpected heir to the family secret, a map leading to buried treasure on the Florida isle ...

Harry and Walter Go to New York
1976
as Hayseed
Two hoplessly out of their class con-men attempt to pull off the largest bank heist of the l9th century—by gaining the enmity of the most famous bank ...

The Kansas City Massacre
1975
as Homer Van Meter
Gangsters free one of their colleagues being escorted to prison and kill several FBI agents and local police officers in the attempt. FBI agent Melvin...

Hard Times
1975
as Man (uncredited)
In the depression, Chaney, a strong silent streetfighter, joins with Speed, a promoter of no-holds-barred street boxing bouts. They go to New Orleans ...