James Read
Biography
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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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- NCIS (2003) as Alan Newhall
- Castle (2009) as Anton McHugh
- Columbo (1971) as Wesley Corman
- Charmed (1998) as Victor Bennett
- Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993) as Jack Olsen
- Crossing Jordan (2001) as Dean William Hargrave
- Star Trek: Voyager (1995) as Jaffen
- Murder, She Wrote (1984) as Boyd Venton
- Cheers (1982) as H.W. Sawyer
- Cold Case (2003) as Prof. Robert Boreki (2008)
- This Is Us (2016) as Duffy Collins
- The Orville (2017) as Admiral Christie
- Diagnosis: Murder (1993) as David McReynolds
- Station 19 (2018) as Jonathan Clifton Tucker
- Home Improvement (1991) as Captain Jenkins
- Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (1996) as Ben
- Touched by an Angel (1994) as Nick
- Profiler (1996) as James Lofton
- Wildfire (2005) as Ken Davis
- Hotel (1982) as Pike
- 7th Heaven (1996) as James Carver
- Becker (1998) as Dan
- Trapper John, M.D. (1979)
- Bosch: Legacy (2022) as RHD Capt. Rick Seals