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Anthony James (born James Anthony; July 22, 1942 – May 26, 2020) was an American character actor who specialized in playing villains in films and television, many of them Westerns. Early life Anthony James was born James Anthony in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on July 22, 1942, as the only child of Greek immigrants George Anthony (1893–1951) and Marika Palla (1913–2008). He later reversed the order of his given name and surname for his acting career. Career James made several guest appearances on the Western series Gunsmoke during the series' run, appearing in different roles, most often playing the character of Elbert Moses. Other shows he has guest-starred on include Hawaii Five-O; The High Chaparral; Bonanza; The Rookies; Charlie's Angels; Starsky and Hutch; Buck Rogers in the 25th Century; Holmes & Yoyo; The Fall Guy; The A-Team; Hunter (1984); Quincy, M.E.; Star Trek: The Next Generation; and Beauty and the Beast; Married... with Children. James also appeared in a number of major feature films. His first major role was as Ralph, the diner counterman in 1967's In the Heat of the Night. His subsequent film appearances included P.J. (1968) and ...tick...tick...tick... (1970). He played one of the lynch mobsters in High Plains Drifter (1973), he had his first costar role as the stalker murderer obsessed with “The Teacher” starring Golden Globe Nominee, Angel Tompkins, and Jay North. He also appeared as the evil chauffeur in the horror film Burnt Offerings (1976). He had roles in Blue Thunder (1983), Nightmares (1983), and The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991). James also appeared in Poison's 1988 music video for their song "Fallen Angel.": 139  He retired from acting in the early 1990s, with his last film role in Clint Eastwood's 1992 Unforgiven, the Academy Award-winning film for Best Picture of 1992. It is notable that Anthony James's first and last major film appearances were each in Academy Award-winning films for Best Picture.After retirement to Arlington, Massachusetts, he concentrated on painting. In 1994, he published a book of art and poetry, Language of the Heart. His autobiography, Acting My Face, was published in 2014. Death James died from cancer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 26, 2020, at the age of 77. Selected filmography References External links Anthony James (I) at IMDb Interview with Anthony James – The Spectrum, March, 2016.. Discover the Anthony James popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Anthony James books.

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  • Negation Force synopsis, comments

    Negation Force

    Anthony James

    Negation Force. A planet without power, locked down by an alien war fleet.The human Confederation has known an unprecedented time of peace, unheard of in a universe where every oth...

  • The Unwanted Dead synopsis, comments

    The Unwanted Dead

    Chris Lloyd

    'A gripping murder mystery and a vivid recreation of Paris under German Occupation.' ANDREW TAYLORWINNER OF THE HWA GOLD CROWN AWARD FOR BEST HISTORICAL FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE ...

  • Crimson Tempest synopsis, comments

    Crimson Tempest

    Anthony James

    Fiftythree years after it vanished, Earth's only SuperDevastator warship, the ESS Crimson sends out a distress signal...Humanity is fighting against an implacable foe. The Gha...

  • Tattoos on the Heart synopsis, comments

    Tattoos on the Heart

    Gregory Boyle

    “Destined to become a classic of both urban reportage and contemporary spirituality” (Los Angeles Times)Tattoos on the Heart is a series of parables about kinship and redemption fr...

  • The Dealer synopsis, comments

    The Dealer

    Robert Muchamore

    CHERUB agents are all seventeen and under. They wear skate tees and hemp, and look like regular kids. But they're not. They are trained professionals who are sent out on missions t...

  • Creative Filmmaking from the Inside Out synopsis, comments

    Creative Filmmaking from the Inside Out

    Jed Dannenbaum, Carroll Hodge & Doe Mayer

    Five keys to creating authentic, distinctive work, whether you are a student, professional or simply love making films on your ownFor Creative Filmmaking from the Inside Out, three...

  • Liberty Is Sweet synopsis, comments

    Liberty Is Sweet

    Woody Holton

    A “deeply researched and bracing retelling” (Annette GordonReed, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooke...

  • Clouds of Witness synopsis, comments

    Clouds of Witness

    Dorothy L. Sayers

    The second book in Dorothy L Sayers Lord Peter Wimsey series introduced by crime novelist Ruth Dudley Edwards a mustread for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham...

  • Out of Line synopsis, comments

    Out of Line

    Barbara Lynch

    “If you have an appetite for culinary adventure, you’ll devour the feisty and fun memoir” (Elle magazine) by James Beard awardwinning chef, restaurateur, and Top Chef judge Barbara...

  • The Whole Language synopsis, comments

    The Whole Language

    Gregory Boyle

    Gregory Boyle, the beloved Jesuit priest and author of the inspirational bestsellers Tattoos on the Heart and Barking to the Choir, returns with a call to witness the transformativ...

  • Unnatural Death synopsis, comments

    Unnatural Death

    Dorothy L. Sayers

    The third book in Dorothy L Sayers' classic Lord Peter Wimsey series, introduced by crime writer Minette Walters a mustread for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Alling...

  • How to Lead synopsis, comments

    How to Lead

    David M. Rubenstein

    The New York Times Bestseller #1 Wall Street Journal BestsellerThe essential leadership playbook. Learn the principles and guiding philosophies of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Ruth Bade...

  • The Killing synopsis, comments

    The Killing

    Robert Muchamore

    CHERUB agents are all seventeen and under. They wear skate tees and hemp, and look like regular kids. But they're not. They are trained professionals who are sent out on missions t...

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    West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas

    John Jacob Thomas

    This is a history book about West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas.

  • The Fine Art of Invisible Detection synopsis, comments

    The Fine Art of Invisible Detection

    Robert Goddard

    'One of the finest crime writers of any generation' Daily Mail'He's the high priest of plot ... deftly woven, but also beautifully written ... I loved it' Mel GiedroycUmiko Wada ha...

  • Pasta, Pane, Vino synopsis, comments

    Pasta, Pane, Vino

    Matt Goulding

    “Italy is a beautiful but complicated place, not so much a country as a collection of cultures and cuisines. Matt Goulding expertly navigates it’s wonders and eccentricities with w...

  • The Recruit synopsis, comments

    The Recruit

    Robert Muchamore

    In this actionpacked CHERUB novel, two siblings on separate special agent missions both end up in deadly danger.CHERUB agents are all seventeen and under. They wear skate tees and ...

  • Grape, Olive, Pig synopsis, comments

    Grape, Olive, Pig

    Matt Goulding

    Winner of the 2017 IACP Award: Literary or Historical Food WritingGourmand World Cookbook Award Winner: Culinary TravelAmazon Best Book of November (2016): Cookbooks, Food and Wine...

  • Poems That Make Grown Women Cry synopsis, comments

    Poems That Make Grown Women Cry

    Anthony Holden & Ben Holden

    The internationally bestselling collection of poetry so powerful that it has moved readers to tears. “Anthony and Ben Holden remind us that you don’t have to be an academic or a po...

  • The Sleepwalker synopsis, comments

    The Sleepwalker

    Robert Muchamore

    Teen special agents investigate a deadly plane crash in the ninth book of the CHERUB series, which Rick Riordan says has “plenty of action.”CHERUB agents are highly trained, extrem...

  • Mad Dogs synopsis, comments

    Mad Dogs

    Robert Muchamore

    Gang warfare gets gruesome in the eighth book of the CHERUB series, which Rick Riordan says has “plenty of action.”CHERUB agents are highly trained, extremely talentedand all under...

  • Shadow Wave synopsis, comments

    Shadow Wave

    Robert Muchamore

    A CHERUB agent must choose between the agency and his own beliefs in the twelfth and final book of the CHERUB series, which Rick Riordan says has “plenty of action.”CHERUB agents a...

  • Power Forward synopsis, comments

    Power Forward

    Reggie Love

    Every path to adulthood is strewn with missteps, epiphanies, and hardearned lessons. Only Reggie Love’s, however, went through the White House by way of Duke University’s Cameron I...

  • Brigands M.C. synopsis, comments

    Brigands M.C.

    Robert Muchamore

    A new member of CHERUB gets the chance to avenge the death of his family in the eleventh book of the CHERUB series, which Rick Riordan says has “plenty of action.”CHERUB agents are...

  • The Other Side of Night synopsis, comments

    The Other Side of Night

    Adam Hamdy

    For fans of Matt Haig and Anthony Horowitz, a “strange, compelling, and ultimately moving headspinner of a novel” (John Connolly) in which the lives of a disgraced police officer, ...

  • Divine Madness synopsis, comments

    Divine Madness

    Robert Muchamore

    CHERUB agents are all seventeen and under. They wear skate tees and hemp, and look like regular kids. But they're not. They are trained professionals who are sent out on missions t...

  • Maximum Security synopsis, comments

    Maximum Security

    Robert Muchamore

    CHERUB agents are all seventeen and under. They wear skate tees and hemp, and look like regular kids. But they're not. They are trained professionals who are sent out on missions t...

  • Five Decembers synopsis, comments

    Five Decembers

    James Kestrel

    Winner of the 2022 Edgar Award for Best Novel  “War, imprisonment, torture, romance…The novel has an almost operatic symmetry, and Kestrel turns a beautiful phrase.”New York T...

  • Blood in the Garden synopsis, comments

    Blood in the Garden

    Chris Herring

    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A SELECTION ON BARACK OBAMA’S SUMMER READING LISTThe definitive history of the 1990s New York Knicks, illustrating how Pat Riley, Patrick Ewing, J...

  • Man vs. Beast synopsis, comments

    Man vs. Beast

    Robert Muchamore

    CHERUB agents are all seventeen and under. They wear skate tees and hemp, and look like regular kids. But they're not. They are trained professionals who are sent out on missions t...

  • The General synopsis, comments

    The General

    Robert Muchamore

    Teen special agents James and Lauren travel to the US in the tenth book of the CHERUB series, which Rick Riordan says has “plenty of action.”CHERUB agents are highly trained, extre...

  • The Anatomy of a Spy synopsis, comments

    The Anatomy of a Spy

    Michael Smith

    For fans of both real spy dramas and fictional onesboth Ben Macintyre and John le Carréthe story of why spies spy.   Why do people put their lives at risk to collect intellige...

  • Medium Raw synopsis, comments

    Medium Raw

    Anthony Bourdain

    Medium Raw marks the return of the inimitable Anthony Bourdain, author of the blockbuster bestseller Kitchen Confidential and threetime Emmy Awardnominated host of No Reservations ...

  • Tommyland synopsis, comments

    Tommyland

    Tommy Lee

    I am Tommy Lee, born Thomas Lee Bass in Athens, Greece, on October 3, 1962, and raised in a suburb of California by an American father and a Greek mother. At seventeen, I joined Mö...

  • With a Mind to Kill synopsis, comments

    With a Mind to Kill

    Anthony Horowitz

    "It’s almost uncanny how well Mr. Horowitz summons Bond’s mindset . . . Yet this Bond also feels the winds of change: 'He had his licence to kill. But was it possible that in this ...

  • The Fall synopsis, comments

    The Fall

    Robert Muchamore

    In this actionpacked CHERUB novel, two siblings on separate special agent missions both end up in deadly danger.CHERUB agents are highly trained, extremely talentedand all under th...

  • Frederick Douglass synopsis, comments

    Frederick Douglass

    David W. Blight

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History“Extraordinary…a great American biography” (The New Yorker) of the most important AfricanAmerican of the nineteenth century: Frederick Dougla...

  • The Complete Nose to Tail synopsis, comments

    The Complete Nose to Tail

    Fergus Henderson

    The Complete Nose to Tail is an exhilarating compendium that brings together maverick chef Fergus Henderson’s two acclaimed cookbooksWhole Beast and Beyond Nose to Tail. Adven...

  • Flash Flood synopsis, comments

    Flash Flood

    Chris Ryan

    Ben's on a trip to London to meet his mum. But an accident at the Thames Barrier, combined with a tidal surge and a dramatic thunderstorm and suddenly his trip turns into some...

  • The Portrait of a Lady synopsis, comments

    The Portrait of a Lady

    Henry James & Geoffrey Moore

    When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy the fr...

  • Poems That Make Grown Men Cry synopsis, comments

    Poems That Make Grown Men Cry

    Anthony Holden & Ben Holden

    A lifeenhancing tour through classic and contemporary poems that have made men cry: “The Holdens remind us that you don’t have to be an academic or a postgraduate in creative writi...

  • Agricola and Germania synopsis, comments

    Agricola and Germania

    Tacitus

    The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' wellloved and respected fatherinlaw and the first detailed account of Br...

  • This Book Has Balls synopsis, comments

    This Book Has Balls

    Michael Rapaport

    The sports world according to Michael Rapaportactor, Top 50 podcaster, awardwinning film maker, and sports fanaticfrom the greatest and downright worst athletes, players, teams, an...

  • Nobu synopsis, comments

    Nobu

    Nobu Matsuhisa

    “In this outstanding memoir, chef and restaurateur Matsuhisa...shares lessons in humility, gratitude, and empathy that will stick with readers long after they’ve finished the final...