FrameThrower · Actors · James Remar
James Remar
12 films · 786 frames · top-billed in 5 · 1979–2015
Born 31 December 1953 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
William James Remar is an American actor. Some of his best known film roles are as Ajax in The Warriors (1979), as homicidal maniac Albert Ganz in 48 Hrs. (1982), as Dutch Schultz in The Cotton Club (1984), and as Lord Raiden in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997). He has had smaller roles in many other notable films, including Drugstore Cowboy (1989), Boys on the Side (1995), Judge Dredd (1995), Psycho (1998), What Lies Beneath (2000), 2 Fast 2 Furious (2002), Blade: Trinity (2004), Ratatouille (2007), Pineapple Express (2008), RED (2010), X-Men: First Class (2011), Django Unchained (2012), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), Oppenheimer (2023), and Megalopolis (2024).…
How their films are shot
Measured across 786 frames from the 12 films we hold. This is the look of the work James takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 12 films we hold, 55% of their frames are night, 45% low key — the look of the work James takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Hellraiser: Inferno
2000 · Dr. Paul Gregory
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
1997 · Raiden
Drugstore Cowboy
1989 · Gentry
Clan of the Cave Bear
1986 · Creb
The Warriors
1979 · Ajax
The Blackcoat’s Daughter
2015 · Bill
Horns
2013 · Derrick Perrish
Django Unchained
2012 · Butch Pooch / Ace Speck
Fear X
2003 · Peter
What Lies Beneath
2000 · Warren Feur
Fatal Instinct
1993 · Max Shady
The Cotton Club
1984 · Dutch Schultz
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 786 frames from James Remar's 12 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.