Peter Francis James

Peter Francis James

Born: September 16, 1956
in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Peter Francis James (born September 16, 1956) is an American actor and voice-over artist, distinguished by his strong baritone.

Movies for Peter Francis James...

Title: Godfather of Harlem
Character: Archie Gaines
Released: September 29, 2019
Type: TV
Loosely based on infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson, who in the early 1960s returned from ten years in prison to find the neighborhood he once ruled in shambles. With the streets controlled by the Italian mob, Bumpy attempts to regain his piece of Harlem.
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Title: What We Do in the Shadows
Character: Headmaster Warren
Released: March 27, 2019
Type: TV
A documentary-style look into the daily (or rather, nightly) lives of a group of vampires in Staten Island who have “lived” together for hundreds and hundreds of years.
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The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
Title: The Vanishing of Sidney Hall
Character: Dr. Baum
Released: March 2, 2018
Type: Movie
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.
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Noël Coward's Present Laughter
Title: Noël Coward's Present Laughter
Character: Henry Lyppiatt
Released: November 3, 2017
Type: Movie
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 friends. Originally broadcast as an episode of the PBS series "Great Performances" (season 45, episode 4).
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Title: The Bold Type
Character: Bobby O'Neill
Released: June 20, 2017
Type: TV
A glimpse into the outrageous lives of Jane, Kat and Sutton, who are working at the nation's top women's magazine, Scarlet, while navigating their careers, identities and individual voices.
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Rough Night
Title: Rough Night
Character: Jack Eason
Released: June 15, 2017
Type: Movie
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 they accidentally kill a male stripper. Amidst the craziness of trying to cover it up, they're ultimately brought closer together when it matters most.
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Title: DC's Legends of Tomorrow
Character: Dr. Aldus Boardman
Released: January 21, 2016
Type: TV
When heroes alone are not enough ... the world needs legends. Having seen the future, one he will desperately try to prevent from happening, time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter is tasked with assembling a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat — one in which not only is the planet at stake, but all of time itself. Can this ragtag team defeat an immortal threat unlike anything they have ever known?
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True Story
Title: True Story
Character: Colin Parker
Released: April 17, 2015
Type: Movie
A drama centered around the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outside the U.S. under Finkel's name.
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The Humbling
Title: The Humbling
Character: Kent
Released: December 31, 2014
Type: Movie
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 with her.
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Title: The Mysteries of Laura
Character: Titus Bosch
Released: September 17, 2014
Type: TV
Laura Diamond, a brilliant NYPD homicide detective balances her “Columbo” day job with a crazy family life that includes two unruly twin boys and a soon-to-be ex-husband — also a cop — who just can't seem to sign the divorce papers. Between cleaning up after her boys and cleaning up the streets, she’d be the first to admit she has her “hot mess” moments in this hilariously authentic look at what it really means to be a “working mom” today. Somehow, she makes it all work with the help of her sexy and understanding partner, and things becomes even more complicated when her husband, ironically, becomes her boss at the precinct. For Laura, every day is a high-wire balancing act.
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Song One
Title: Song One
Character: Neurosurgeon
Released: January 20, 2014
Type: Movie
Estranged from her family, Franny returns home when an accident leaves her brother comatose. Retracing his life as an aspiring musician, she tracks down his favorite musician, James Forester. Against the backdrop of Brooklyn’s music scene, Franny and James develop an unexpected relationship and face the realities of their lives.
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Title: Arrow
Character: Dr. Aldus Boardman
Released: October 10, 2012
Type: TV
Spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man, determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow.
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The Pack
Title: The Pack
Character: Marc Forrest
Released: October 13, 2011
Type: Movie
A young man testifies against his mother for killing the father with secondhand smoke.
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The Losers
Title: The Losers
Character: Fadhil
Released: April 23, 2010
Type: Movie
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 join forces with a mysterious operative named Aisha to hunt down their enemy and even the score.
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The Messenger
Title: The Messenger
Character: Dr. Grosso
Released: November 13, 2009
Type: Movie
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 partnered with Captain Tony Stone, to give notice to the families of fallen soldiers. The Sergeant is drawn to Olivia Pitterson, to whom he has delivered news of her husband’s death.
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The Rebound
Title: The Rebound
Character: Doctor
Released: September 16, 2009
Type: Movie
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 him so she could get a green card. Sandy hires Aram to be her nanny, and it isn't long until Aram and Sandy find out they get along wonderfully and start to date. But is their relationship real or is it, in fact, just a rebound for both of them?
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Title: Kings
Character: Lieutenant General
Released: March 15, 2009
Type: TV
A riveting drama about a modern day monarchy, a contemporary re-telling of the timeless tale of David and Goliath. This series is an epic story of greed and power, war and romance, forbidden loves and secret alliances -- and a young hero who rises to power in a modern-day kingdom.
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Title: Gossip Girl
Character: James Wolf
Released: September 19, 2007
Type: TV
An exclusive group of privileged teens from a posh prep school on Manhattan's Upper East Side whose lives revolve around the blog of the all-knowing albeit ultra-secretive Gossip Girl.
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The Rosa Parks Story
Title: The Rosa Parks Story
Character: Raymond Parks
Released: February 24, 2002
Type: Movie
A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Title: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Character: Mr. Richmond
Released: September 30, 2001
Type: TV
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
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Love Song
Title: Love Song
Character: Alfred Livingston
Released: December 1, 2000
Type: Movie
A privileged, black college student with a fiance falls in love with a white musician she meets on her 21st birthday.
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Joe Gould's Secret
Title: Joe Gould's Secret
Character: Man at Party
Released: January 21, 2000
Type: Movie
Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 conversations he's overheard. Mitchell is fascinated with this Harvard grad and writes a 1942 piece about him, "Professor Seagull," bringing Gould some celebrity and an invitation to join the Greenwich Village Ravens, a poetry club he's often crashed. Gould's touchy, querulous personality and his frequent dropping in on Mitchell for hours of chat lead to a breakup, but the two Joes stay in touch until Gould's death and Mitchell's unveiling of the secret.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Judge Kevin Beck
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Double Platinum
Title: Double Platinum
Character: Martin Holly
Released: May 16, 1999
Type: Movie
The story of a mother driven to reach the heights of superstardom at the cost of abandoning her only child.
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The Wedding
Title: The Wedding
Character: Isaac Coles
Released: February 22, 1998
Type: Movie
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 object to an inter-racial marriage, and Shelby's parents, who want her to marry a professional. As Shelby is afflicted by pre-marital doubts, handsome Lute McNeil arrives on the scene, determined to make Shelby his at any cost.
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Ruby Bridges
Title: Ruby Bridges
Character: Dr. Broyard
Released: January 18, 1998
Type: Movie
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 ugliness of racism for the first time.
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Montana
Title: Montana
Character: Lawrence
Released: January 16, 1998
Type: Movie
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 Boss and this routine task gets very complicated.
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Title: Oz
Character: Jahfree Neema
Released: July 12, 1997
Type: TV
The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.
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The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez
Title: The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez
Character: Janitor
Released: December 4, 1991
Type: Movie
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 whom mysterious Dr. Ramirez and his hideous sidekick want as their latest victim.
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William Shakespeare's Hamlet
Title: William Shakespeare's Hamlet
Character: Horatio
Released: November 2, 1990
Type: Movie
A Danish prince and university student avenges his father's murder by his uncle, who stole the crown and married his mother.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: John Laramie
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Long Day's Journey Into Night
Title: Long Day's Journey Into Night
Character: Edmund Tyrone
Released: November 23, 1982
Type: Movie
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 of their youngest son Edmund and the alcoholism and debauchery of their older son Jamie. As day turns into night, guilt, anger, despair, and regret threaten to destroy the family.
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Coriolanus
Title: Coriolanus
Character: Volscian Citizen / Roman Soldier / Volscian Soldier
Released: March 31, 1979
Type: Movie
A video recording of a New York Shakespeare Festival 1979 stage production of Coriolanus with an all-black and Hispanic cast. Producer Joseph Papp intended to provide professional opportunities for actors of minority ethnic backgrounds. A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.
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Title: Great Performances
Character: Horatio
Released: January 28, 1971
Type: TV
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.