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James Morrison(II)

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A filmmaker, playwright, poet, actor, singer/songwriter and yoga teacher, James Morrison was born in Utah and is a product of Alaska. He served his theatrical apprenticeship with the Alaska Repertory Theatre in the late '70s and spent a year studying in New York before settling on the West Coast in 1980. Since then, he has appeared at some of America's foremost theatres including the McCarter Theatre, the La Jolla Playhouse, the Mark Taper Forum, LA TheatreWorks and The Old Globe with such renowned directors as Robert Egan, Emily Mann, Des McAnuff, Jack O'Brien, Charles Nelson Reilly, Jose Quintero, Martin Jarvis, and Harry Mastrogeorge, his acting teacher since 1982.

He is the recipient of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Performance and three Drama-Logue Awards. In 1985 he appeared in the London premiere of Emily Mann's Still Life at the West End's Donmar Warehouse and the Riverside Studios after a stint in The Edinburgh Festival at the Traverse Theatre where the production received a Fringe First Award.

His radio credits include L.A.TheatreWorks productions of Pressure - as General Eisenhower, The Rainmaker as Starbuck with the cast of the Broadway revival, Ruby McCollum in which he stars as William Bradford Huie, Judgement at Nuremberg - starring as Chief Justice Dan Haywood, the U.S. tour of In the Heat of the Night and Julius Caesar.

Morrison's short film, Parking (1996), which he wrote and directed, was produced by his wife, Riad Galayini. Parking screened at twenty film festivals world wide including New York's New Directors/New Films presented by Lincoln Center at the Museum of Modern Art, Slamdance (audience choice award for best short), Austin's South By Southwest Festival, the Central Florida Film Festival (third place narrative film award), the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, the Montreal World Festival, The Festival of U.S. Shorts in Brisbane, Australia, Ireland's Cork International Film Festival, and the Northampton Film Festival where it received the Best Short of the Festival Award. Parking also ran on Sundance Channel for 18 months.

With Ms. Galayini, he co-wrote and co-produced her directorial debut, Nude Descending (1997), which received The George Melies Award at the 1998 Taos Talking Picture Festival and has screened at the Nashville Independent Festival and Short Cuts in Paris. In 2000, Nude Descending was selected for special recognition by the Hitchcock International Director's Series presented by the American Cinematheque.

Their latest film, the documentary, Showing Up (2014), is a feature-length conversation about the actor's audition.

Most recently, James developed and performed his one-man play, Leave Your Fears Here at the Ojai Playwrights Conference. The play went on to premiere at the Great Barrington Public Theatre in Massachusetts. Morrison's plays have also been produced and/or developed at the Sundance Institute, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Playwrights' Center of Minneapolis, L.A. TheatreWorks, The MET Theatre, Two Parts Theatre Company, The Classical Theatre Lab, City Theatre in Miami, The Road Theatre, The Mojo Ensemble, The Wooden O, The Philadelphia Fringe Festival and the Salt Lake Acting Company where he has directed several plays including those by Sam Shepard, John Robinson, Larry Shue and Beth Henley.

As a singer/songwriter his albums, Son to the Boy and I Broke Free are available on iTunes CD Baby, Amazon and all digital outlets.

James was a Lecture Fellow at Bournemouth University School of Media in England and received his certification to teach Hatha Yoga from Ganga White and Tracey Rich at the White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara where he sits on the Board of Trustees. He taught regular classes at the YogaWorks Center for Yoga in Los Angeles for 10 years.

James and Riad live North of Los Angeles and their son, Seamus, a recent graduate of UCSB.
BornApril 21, 1954
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James Morrison and Annabelle Stephenson in Pray for Rain (2017)
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Kate McNeil and James Morrison in The X-Files (1993)

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Kiefer Sutherland, Reiko Aylesworth, Carlos Bernard, Jude Ciccolella, Glenn Morshower, and Mary Lynn Rajskub in 24 (2001)
24
8.4
TV Series
  • Bill Buchanan
Kristen Cloke, Rodney Rowland, and Morgan Weisser in Space: Above and Beyond (1995)
Space: Above and Beyond
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TV Series
  • Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius 'T.C.' McQueen
  • Col. Tyrus Cassius 'T.C.' McQueen
Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks in Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Catch Me If You Can
8.1
  • Pilot
  • 2002
Jarhead (2005)
Jarhead
7.0
  • Mr. Swofford
  • 2005

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  • A Christmas Cop
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  • Jason Antoon, Vanessa Lachey, Noah Mills, Yasmine Al-Bustami, and Alex Tarrant in NCIS: Hawai'i (2021)
    NCIS: Hawai'i
  • Aves (2022)
    Aves
  • Mariska Hargitay in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
  • 1 (2020)
    1
  • Hot Topics Celeb TV Unscripted Afterdark (2020)
    Hot Topics Celeb TV Unscripted Afterdark
  • James Morrison and Daniel Rubiano in Reclaiming (2020)
    Reclaiming
  • Jason Spisak in Intersect (2020)
    Intersect
  • Sherman Augustus, Eric Bischoff, Sarah Joy Brown, Sharon Case, K.C. Collins, Doug Davidson, Daniel Goddard, Shane Johnson, Sean Kanan, Katherine Kelly Lang, Keili Lefkovitz, James Morrison, Joshua Morrow, Ronn Moss, Katherine Norland, Peter Onorati, Aaron D. Spears, Jade Struck, Sean Ringgold, DTeflon, Caitlin O'Connor, and Robert Crayton in AEG Live Studio Actors on Actors (2019)
    AEG Live Studio Actors on Actors
  • James Morrison, Justin Ward, Angel Parker, Matthew Nardozzi, Mateus Ward, Hana Hayes, Chelsea Zhang, Rio Mangini, Terry Nardozzi, and Tyler DiChiara in Relish (2019)
    Relish
  • The Twilight Zone (2019)
    The Twilight Zone
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  • Live and Let Die: The Radio Play (2019)
    Live and Let Die: The Radio Play
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  • Brie Larson in Captain Marvel (2019)
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  • Jamie Hector, Will McFadden, and Sarah Butler in Doubting Thomas (2018)
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  • Mark Harmon, Maria Bello, Wilmer Valderrama, Rocky Carroll, David McCallum, Sean Murray, Brian Dietzen, Emily Wickersham, and Diona Reasonover in NCIS (2003)
    NCIS
  • Mary McDonnell, G.W. Bailey, Michael Paul Chan, Raymond Cruz, Tony Denison, Robert Gossett, Jon Tenney, Phillip P. Keene, and Kearran Giovanni in Major Crimes (2012)
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    • April 21, 1954
    • Bountiful, Utah, USA
    • Riad GalayiniNovember 1995 - present
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    He was awarded the 1983 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Performance for "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

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