Name
James Read
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1953-07-31 (73 years old)
Place of Birth
Buffalo, New York, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Christopher Read (born July 31, 1953) is an American actor.
Read was born in Buffalo, New York. He started acting as a student of the University of Oregon where he graduated in 1976. He studied acting in New York and then did several off Broadway and regional theatres such as The Denver Center Theatre Company, where he had a couple of leading roles and spent three seasons.
Read is perhaps best known for his role as George Hazard in the three North and South TV miniseries (1985, 1986 and 1994) based on the John Jakes trilogy of novels of the same name, and for his co-starring role in the movie Beaches. Read is married to actress Wendy Kilbourne, whom he met on the set of North and South. He had a recurring role on The WB series Charmed as Victor Bennett and was also a regular during the first season of Remington Steele. Currently, he may be seen as Ken Davis in the ABC family drama Wildfire.
In 1998, he also earned his Masters Degree in psychology from Pepperdine University.
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- 1995 Walking Thunder as Abner Murdock
- 2005 A Lot Like Love as Brent Friehl
- 1995 The Other Woman as Michael
- 1998 Indiscreet as Zachariah Dodd
- 1990 Web of Deceit as Paul Evanston
- 1990 Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as Hugh
- 2001 Legally Blonde as Elle's Father
- 1985 Midas Valley as Josh Landau
- 2001 Not Another Teen Movie as Preston's Father
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- 2003 Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde as Elle's Father
- Soon All Signs of Death as Westin Nye
- 1992 The President's Child as Sen. James Guthrie
- 1983 Blue Thunder as Policeman at Bridge
- 2009 Fame as Alice's Dad
- 1987 Celebration Family as James Marston
- 1984 Murder, She Wrote ( 1 episode ) as Boyd Venton
- 1982 Cheers ( 1 episode ) as H.W. Sawyer
- 1971 Columbo ( 1 episode ) as Wesley Corman
- 2009 Castle ( 1 episode ) as Anton McHugh
- 1982 Remington Steele ( 22 episodes ) as Murphy Michaels
- 1979 Trapper John, M.D. ( 1 episode )
- 1991 Home Improvement ( 1 episode ) as Captain Jenkins
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- 2001 Crossing Jordan ( 1 episode ) as Dean William Hargrave
- 1998 Charmed ( 16 episodes ) as Victor Bennett
- 2002 American Dreams ( 10 episodes ) as Mr. Mason
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- 1993 Diagnosis: Murder ( 1 episode ) as David McReynolds
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- 1993 Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman ( 1 episode ) as Jack Olsen
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- 2006 Pepper Dennis ( 1 episode ) as Mr. Brinkman
- 1993 Intimate Portrait ( 1 episode ) as Self
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- 1987 Shell Game ( 6 episodes )
- 1994 Heaven Help Us ( 1 episode )
- 1998 Push ( 8 episodes )
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- 2005 Wildfire ( 51 episodes ) as Ken Davis
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