Biography
James Le Gros (/ləˈɡroʊ/) (born April 27, 1962) is an American actor. He was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance in Living in Oblivion.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Bird in Hand
2025
as Dennis
Bird returns home to visit her mom in search of the perfect wedding venue after a surprise engagement to her longtime boyfriend, but much to everyone'...

Good One
2024
as Chris
On a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam contends with the competing egos of her father and his oldest friend.

Good One
2024
Executive Producer
On a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam contends with the competing egos of her father and his oldest friend.

Blackout
2023
as Tom Granick
Small town artist Charley is a tortured man whose drinking binges blur with his sneaking suspicion that he might be a werewolf. He distances himself f...

Showing Up
2023
as Ira
In the days leading up to a possibly career-changing exhibition, a sculptor navigates her relationships with family, friends, and colleagues.

Earthlings
2023
as Conrad
Tom Chen, an affluent Chinese American, decides to celebrate the anniversary of his divorce with a dinner party. When his intended guests cancel, he i...

Mosquito
2022
as William Rossdale
A tale of sacrifice and showmanship told through rival doctors in the old west.

Foxhole
2021
as Wilson
Unfolding over the span of 36 hours in three separate wars – The American Civil War, World War I, and Iraq – FOXHOLE follows five soldiers confined in...

Phoenix, Oregon
2019
as Bobby
Defying the haze of mid-life, two friends seize an unlikely opportunity to reinvent their lives, quitting their jobs to restore an old bowling alley a...

Buck Run
2019
as William Templeton
Set in rural Pennsylvania, 15-year-old Shaw, a bullied outsider, is trying to cope with his mother’s death and a reunion with his estranged, alcoholic...

Waterlily Jaguar
2018
as Bob
A famous writer's obsession leaves his relationships and marriage in shambles.

Support the Girls
2018
as Cubby
Lisa Conroy is general manager at a highway-side 'sports bar with curves', Double Whammies. She nurtures and protects her employees fiercely - but ove...

Unzipping
2018
as Tsiki
Ella and Tsiki embrace in a routine kiss when she is suddenly pricked on the lip by an unknown source - a zipper hiding under Tsiki's tongue. In the t...

Wildling
2018
as Wolf Man
A young woman held in captivity discovers the realities of truth and lies in the outside world.

Nostalgia
2018
as Patrick Beam
A mosaic of stories about love and loss, exploring our relationship to the objects, artifacts, and memories that shape our lives.

Dating My Mother
2017
as Chester
Dating My Mother explores the intimate and sometimes tumultuous relationship between a single mother and her gay son as they navigate the dizzying wor...

Stray Bullets
2017
as Cody
In upstate New York, two teenage boys are tasked with cleaning out their father's old mobile home on an abandoned property, but the boys are in for a ...

Certain Women
2016
as Ryan
Three strong-willed women strive to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer forced to subdue a troubled ...

The People Garden
2016
as Director
Sweetpea searches for her missing rock star boyfriend Jamie in a forest in Japan.

Point Break
2015
as FBI Agent
A young undercover FBI agent infiltrates a gang of thieves who share a common interest in extreme sports. A remake of the 1991 film, "Point Break".

Big Muddy
2014
as Buford Carver
Martha Barlow, a modern day outlaw, must reconcile her dark past after her teenage son commits a horrible crime.

The Young Kieslowski
2014
as Walter Mallard
Grand romantic gestures need not apply in this comedic tale of star-crossed young love. Instead, freshman Brian Kieslowski displays endless reserves o...

Night Moves
2014
as Feed Factory Clerk
The story about three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric d...
Three Hours Between Planes
2014
as Donald Plant
Donald Plant has never forgotten his first love. When he finds himself at his old hometown airport with three hours to kill until his next flight he d...

A Birder's Guide to Everything
2013
as Donald Portnoy
David Portnoy, a 15-year-old birding fanatic, thinks that he's made the discovery of a lifetime. So, on the eve of his father's remarriage, he escapes...
Don't Let Me Go
2013
as Chris (as James Le Gros)
An ailing father, who is about to undergo a potentially life-threatening surgery, takes his teenage kids into the woods to try and recapture their ear...

Redwood Highway
2013
as Michael
Marie, a reluctant resident of a retirement community in Southern Oregon, decides to walk 80 miles down the Redwood Highway to see the ocean for the f...

The Sixth Gun
2013
as Bill John O'Henry
Failed pilot adaptation of an eponymous comic book set in the old west about six cursed guns that give dark powers and are tied to its owners until th...

Big Miracle
2012
as Karl Hootkin
A small-town news reporter and a Greenpeace volunteer enlist the help of rival superpowers to save three majestic gray whales trapped under the ice of...

Skateland
2011
as Clive Burkham
In the early 1980s, in small-town Texas, dramatic events force a 19-year-old skating rink manager to look at his life in a very new way.

Bitter Feast
2010
as Peter Grey
A celebrity chef exacts revenge on a food blogger who torpedoes his career.

Welcome To Academia
2009
as Revis Williams
Faculty and administrators of the prestigious Victorian University jockey for power in the classroom, the boardroom, and the bedroom. Amidst all their...

Winged Creatures
2009
as Dr. Dan Howland
A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horre...
1%
2008
as Rabbi
Drama set in the world of biker gangs.

Visioneers
2008
as Julieen
Visioneer George Washington Winsterhammerman lives a comfortable but monotonous life in this slightly futuristic black comedy. When people start explo...

Dry Rain
2008
as Stil
Dry Rain takes place over the course of an afternoon in a non-descript lifeless time warp characteristic of America's Heart-land. Stil, a broken man i...

Sherman's Way
2008
as Palmer
An eccentric Olympic has-been who prefers leisure to work, finds himself stuck with a rigid pre-law Yale student with no time for wasting time. Betwee...

Vantage Point
2008
as Ted Heinkin
During an historic counter-terrorism summit in Spain, the President of the United States is struck down by an assassin's bullet. Eight strangers have ...

The Making of 'The Last Winter'
2007
as Self
Feature-length behind-the-scenes documentary for Larry Fessenden's 2006 feature film, THE LAST WINTER.

Zodiac
2007
as George Bawart
The Zodiac murders cause the lives of Paul Avery, David Toschi and Robert Graysmith to intersect.

The Last Winter
2006
as James Hoffman
In the Arctic region of Northern Alaska, an oil company's advance team struggles to establish a drilling base that will forever alter the pristine lan...

Trust the Man
2005
as Dante
Overachieving actress Rebecca must come to grips with her failing marriage to stay-at-home dad Tom. While Rebecca's slacker brother Tobey can't seem t...

Sexual Life
2005
as Josh
As they seek romance and sexual gratification, the lives of eight Los Angeles natives — including a teenager, a wedding photographer and a hotel desk ...

Catch That Kid
2004
as Ferrell
A determined twelve-year-old mountain climber takes drastic action to save her injured father by planning a high-stakes bank heist, using her skills a...

November
2004
as Hugh
Sophie Jacobs is going through the most difficult time of her life. Now, she just has to find out if it's real.

Straight Into Darkness
2004
as Soldier
The movie encompasses several different elements-the perils of war, a touch of macabre, sadness and redemption.

Paradise
2004
as Matthew Paradise
Televangelist Bobby Paradise "saw God" in some space debris when he was returning to Earth as an astronaut. Or at least he was convinced he did by his...

The Street Lawyer
2003
as Barry Nuzzo
An attorney leaves his high-priced firm to work for the less fortunate.

Lovely & Amazing
2002
as Paul
An intimate family portrait of four hapless but resilient women and the bittersweet lessons they learn in keeping up with the hectic demands of their ...

Damaged Care
2002
as Doug Peeno
Anesthesist Doug Peeno hopes to pay for the legal costs of his custody battle with the proceeds of his current wife Linda's new job, as medical office...

World Traveler
2002
as Jack
After hitting the road a man encounters characters that make him realize the importance of family.

Big Shot: Confessions of a Campus Bookie
2002
as Troy
Mother's good boy Benny Silman from Brooklyn becomes an economics student at Arizona State University for the sun and sexy girls- and the proximity of...

Scotland, PA
2001
as Joe 'Mac' McBeth
Joe McBeth is a hard-working but unambitious doofus who toils at a hamburger stand alongside his wife Pat, who is much smarter. Pat believes she could...

If You Only Knew
2000
as Jack
A romantic comedy about a young man who fakes homosexuality to draw the interest of a woman. Instead she tries to help him find a date.

Psycho Path
2000
as Self - Actor / California Charlie
Documentary on the making of Gus Van Sant's "Psycho."

Common Ground
2000
as Amos
This movie contains three short stories dealing with the theme of homosexuality. In "A Friend of Dorothy", a woman joins the Navy during the 1950's an...

Drop Back Ten
2000
as Peter Barnes
After an expose on NFL players causes a series of lawsuits, a reporter gets fired. A loyal editor nonetheless gives him a freelance story to work on. ...

Wishful Thinking
1999
as Max
A story told from three angles. Max meets Elizabeth; they live together, but when she talks of marriage, he balks. He becomes extremely jealous, proba...

Jump
1999
as Bicker
Friends try to dissuade a suicidal man from jumping off a ledge, but they are not much better off than he is.

L.A. Without a Map
1999
as Takowsky
An aspiring Hollywood actress, on a visit to a charming North England town, has a brief fling with the town undertaker, who also writes obituaries for...

Border Line
1999
as Dan Macivers
Allison Westlin, a Los Angeles-based immigration lawyer and single mother, investigates a murder with the help of private detective Mario Sparks and I...

Psycho
1998
as California Charlie
A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.

Enemy of the State
1998
as Jerry Miller
The life of labor lawyer and dedicated family man Robert 'Bobby' Dean is turned upside down after a chance meeting with a college buddy while holiday ...

There's No Fish Food in Heaven
1998
as D.J.
Black comedy about an obsessive street graffiti artist, who falls obsessively in love with a frustrated artist he meets. Unfortunately, rather than tr...

Thursday
1998
as Billy Hill
A former Los Angeles drug dealer moves far away to Texas, making a new life for himself as a married architect in the suburbs. His old crime partner u...

The Pass
1998
as Hunter
A businessman with a compulsive gambling problem which has led to his wife leaving him, travels to Reno, Nevada for some gambling therapy which takes ...

The Myth of Fingerprints
1997
as Cezanne
When a New England dysfunctional family gathers for Thanksgiving, past demons reveal themselves as one son returns for the first time in three years.

Pronto
1997
as Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens
Harry Arno is a Miami Beach bookie who finds himself in trouble with his mob bosses for reasons he can't quite figure out. When an assailant attempts ...

Countdown
1996
as Michael Killip
When Chris Murdoch falls obsessively in love with a Japanese girl attending University in Seattle (Kaori Ozaki) he murders Japanese men who have shown...

Infinity
1996
as John Wheeler
Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.

Boys
1996
as Fenton Ray
Fed up with boarding school and frustrated with the way others have planned his life, John Baker Jr. wants a change -- anything to shake up his staid ...

Marshal Law
1996
as Cougar
A former cop in Texas comes into action when a gang threatens his family.

The Destiny of Marty Fine
1996
as Grill
Marty Fine is a small-time man with a big-time dream. One night, the ex-middleweight fighter sees something he shouldn't have - a mob hit. An old gang...

The Low Life
1995
as Mike, Jr.
Yale graduate John has come to Hollywood to catch his big break. It hasn't happened yet.

Living in Oblivion
1995
as Chad Palomino
Nick is the director of a low-budget indie film. He tries to keep everything together as his production is plagued with an insecure actress, a megalom...

Safe
1995
as Chris
Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.

Panther
1995
as Avakian
Panther is a semi-historic film about the origins of The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The movie spans about 3 years (1966-68) of the Black Pa...

Destiny Turns on the Radio
1995
as Thoreau
Johnny Destiny burns into Las Vegas in his hot Plymouth RoadRunner, stopping only to pick up a stranger stranded in the desert. But then, things aren'...

Just Looking
1995
as Jim
An architect becomes a voyeur when he spies upon his female neighbor.

Don't Do It
1994
as Dodger
Story about three youthful couples in contemporary Los Angeles.

Floundering
1994
as John
John Boyz lives close to where they film "Baywatch", but you'd never know it. His life is full of bizarre friends, sweaty sex, pistol wielding gangste...

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
1994
as Deems Taylor
Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted w...

Bad Girls
1994
as William Tucker
Four former harlots try to leave the wild west (Colorado, to be exact) and head north to make a better life for themselves. Unfortunately someone from...

My New Gun
1992
as Skippy
Debbie Bender is a New Jersey housewife whose life is turned upside down when her husband gives her a gun for self-protection. But his plans backfire ...

Singles
1992
as Andy
A group of young adults in their twenties, who share an apartment in the city of Seattle, ponder on love and face all the challenges of adulthood.

Guncrazy
1992
as Howard
California teen Anita Minteer struggles in the face of an absentee mother, her mom's abusive boyfriend, Rooney, and a lack of respect from her classma...

Leather Jackets
1992
as Carl
Claudia, a girl who gets around, finally lands her dream man in Mickey. However, Mickey's friend Dobbs spoils their nuptial plans when the thugs of a ...

Nervous Ticks
1992
as Rusty
A comedy about a man (Bill Pullman), who is on the run after his mistress (Julie Brown) confesses to her husband (Peter Boyle) that the two of them ha...

Where the Day Takes You
1992
as Crasher
King is a young man, but he's already a veteran of life on the streets of Los Angeles. The de facto leader of a group of teenage runaways, King acts a...

The Rapture
1991
as Tommy
A lonely telephone operator leading an empty, amoral life finds God – only to have her faith continually tested in ways beyond what she could have ima...

Blood and Concrete
1991
as Lance
A dimwitted thug encounters a strung-out, suicidal young woman and an unlikely relationship develops as they work together to make a break for new hor...

Point Break
1991
as Roach
In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers who call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and John...

Born on the Fourth of July
1989
as Platoon - Vietnam
Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought fo...

Drugstore Cowboy
1989
as Rick
Portland, Oregon, 1971. Bob Hughes is the charismatic leader of a peculiar quartet, formed by his wife, Dianne, and another couple, Rick and Nadine, w...

Phantasm II
1988
as Mike
Mike, after his release from a psychiatric hospital, teams up with his old pal Reggie to hunt down the Tall Man, who is at it again. A mysterious, bea...

Hollywood Heartbreak
1988
as Carl
A wannabe writer who's just moved to Hollywood tries to pitch his script idea to various producers who won't give him the time of day.

*batteries not included
1987
as Goon #2
In a soon to be demolished block of apartments, the residents resist the criminal methods used to force them to leave so a greedy tycoon can build his...

Fatal Beauty
1987
as Zack Jaeger
Detective Rita Rizzoli is accustomed to donning costumes and going undercover to nail crooks. But she'll be required to use all of her get-ups and mor...

Near Dark
1987
as Teenage Cowboy
A farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of vampires who roam the highways in stolen ...

Real Men
1987
as Buddy MacGruder
A womanizing CIA agent and an insecure insurance agent are paired together to make sure a deal goes through with aliens for the future of mankind.

Solarbabies
1986
as Metron
In a future in which most water has disappeared from the Earth, we find a group of children, mostly teenagers, who are living at an orphanage, run by ...

The Ladies Club
1986
as Jesse
A policewoman who was raped forms a vigilante group of various rape victims. They abduct and castrate men who have committed repeated violations of wo...

Ace Hits The Big Time
1985
as Freddy Cruz
On the day he enters Kennedy High in Manhattan wearing a patch over one eye, sixteen-year-old Horace Hobart is urged to join what he believes is the t...

Kicks
1985
as Boy #1
A wealthy man with a penchant for living on the edge and engaging in dangerous, life-threatening activities becomes romantically involved with a femal...

The Ratings Game
1984
as Car Attendant
A New Jersey trucker creates a hit TV show with help from his girlfriend in the ratings business.
Born to Lose
N/A
as Jed Duncan
Follows Andy Logan, a young biker grappling with his father’s troubled legacy along with his escalating debts to a local gangster. As he races to rest...
Alfalfa
N/A
Lance is a sprinkler contractor in a drought-stricken desert boomtown whose life converges with a criminal duo, led by Abdi, who are hunting for a cor...
The Wilderness
N/A
Troubled teens attend a Wilderness Therapy program in Utah's desert, navigating personal challenges amidst the harsh Outback environment.