James Morrison

James Morrison

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Birthday: 
21 April 1954, Bountiful, Utah, USA
Height: 
180 cm
A filmmaker, playwright, poet, actor, singer/songwriter and yoga teacher, James Morrison was born in Utah and is a product of Alaska. He began his acting career as a clown and wire walker for the Carson and Barnes Wild Animal Circus and served his theatrical apprenticeship with the Alaska Repertory Theatre. Since then, he has appeared at some of Am... Show more »
A filmmaker, playwright, poet, actor, singer/songwriter and yoga teacher, James Morrison was born in Utah and is a product of Alaska. He began his acting career as a clown and wire walker for the Carson and Barnes Wild Animal Circus and served his theatrical apprenticeship with the Alaska Repertory Theatre. Since then, he has appeared at some of America's foremost theatres including the McCarter Theatre, the La Jolla Playhouse, the Mark Taper Forum, the L.A. Stage Company and The Old Globe with such renowned directors as Emily Mann, Des McAnuff, Jack O'Brien, Charles Nelson Reilly, Jose Quintero 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 The Rainmaker with the cast of the Broadway revival, Ruby McCollum in which he stars as William Bradford Huie, Judgement at Nuremberg, 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 auditio.Morrison's plays have been produced and/or developed at The Sundance Institute, The EnsembleStudio Theatre, The Playwrights' Center of Minneapolis, L.A. Theatre Works, 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 for four years and received his certification to teach Hatha Yoga from Yogiraj Ganga White and Tracey Rich at the White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara. He taught regular classes at the YogaWorks Center for Yoga in Los Angeles for almost 10 years and currently teaches at White Lotus Foundation and Yoga Soup in Santa Barbara.James and Riad live North of Los Angeles with their son, Seamus, born in 1999. Show less «

James Morrison's FILMOGRAPHY

NCIS: Hawaii - Season 3

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The Orville - Season 3

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NCIS: Hawaii - Season 2

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Brooklyn Nine-Nine - Season 8

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NCIS: Hawaii - Season 1

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Brooklyn Nine-Nine - Season 7

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NCIS - Season 18

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The Twilight Zone - Season 2

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Intersect

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Suits - Season 9

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Brooklyn Nine-Nine - Season 6

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NCIS - Season 17

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Millennium After the Millennium

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Captain Marvel

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The Twilight Zone - Season 1

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The X-Files - Season 11

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Suits - Season 8

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The Orville - Season 2

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NCIS - Season 16

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Doubting Thomas

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Twin Peaks: The Return - Season 1

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Suits - Season 7

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Brooklyn Nine-Nine - Season 5

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James Morrison'S roles

Mr. Swofford
Mr. Swofford
LAPD Officer Bobby Aldrich
LAPD Officer Bobby Aldrich
Pilot
Pilot
Bill Buchanan
Bill Buchanan
Gordon Murphy
Gordon Murphy
William White
William White
Dan Buckley
Dan Buckley
Jerome Jensen
Jerome Jensen
Assistant Director Roper, U.S. Senator John Phillips
Assistant Director Roper, U.S. Senator John Phillips