James Wilder

Acting

James Wilder

Born 1968-08-05 · Cleveland, Ohio, USA

James Wilder (born August 5, 1968) is an American film and television actor. He's best known for his roles as Adam Louder on the Fox soap opera Models Inc., Christopher Searls on the ABC TV drama Equal Justice,  and Nick Lewis on NBC's 1993 remake of Route 66. At the age of 14, he was living in his mother's native Paris, regaling audiences with his one man show at such legendary venues as the Moulin Rouge and Lido and later on Broadway. While there, he performed with the Nouveau Cirque De Paris, the precursor to Cirque du Soleil, before making his way to LA where he lived for several years in his customized van. It wasn't long before he nabbed a role in the Broadway hit "Sugar Babies" while studying at the famed NY Actors Studio, at which he was later inducted as a member. Upon returning to LA, TV and film roles rolled in. Some were great, highlighting his scope, others not so much. From his breakout role as the troubled addict son of Ed Asner in the ABC Circle Theater presentation Cracked Up to his heralded star turn in the Emmy-award winning legal drama Equal Justice (with Sarah Jessica Parker) and evocative characterization of a drug-dealing seducer on Melrose Place. In 1997, he dated actress Kirstie Alley. The two met on the set of Nevada and soon were engaged, but split after four years.

Acting credits

Grass Roots poster
8.0

This sequel to the 1983 miniseries, "Chiefs," continues the saga of the Lee family with Will Lee, an ambitious Georgia lawyer running for the U.S. Senate at the same time he is forced by a local judge to defend a young man in a murder trial. On top of this, he becomes the target of an assassin hired by a white-supremacist organization.

Grass Roots

1992

Perfume poster
4.8

A week in the lives of a group of models, photographers, agents, reporters, publicists and other characters during a wild modeling show in New York City.

Perfume

2001

Mind Games poster
8.0

Jill Reeves suffers from retrograde amnesia, forgetting the last seven months of her life. When the mysterious Carter Tallerin tells her they're married, Jill's world unravels. Everyone in Jill's life has a secret, including herself.

Mind Games

2003

Nevada poster
5.4

Chrysty walks through the desert carrying nothing and heading nowhere. She enters a very small town called Silver City. The local community of women is intrigued by the sudden arrival of an attractive stranger and they find out that Chrysty left a husband and three kids behind. One of the women, McGill, calls Chrysty's husband, West to tell him where his wife is and he comes to town.

Nevada

1997

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7.0

17-year-old track star, John Owens, has never used any drug stronger than pot, until he meets an older woman who introduces him to crack cocaine. He quickly becomes addicted but is able to hide his problem from all except his best friend, Chris.

Cracked Up

1987

McBride: Dogged poster
7.0

The annual LA Kennel Club Dog Show gets treated to an unexpected surprise when a backstage murder incriminates the winning canines' handler.

McBride: Dogged

2007

Flypaper poster
4.3

Greed, lust and fate bring together a motley collection of oddballs and lowlifes for some rather sticky situations in Hoch's twisted neo-noir debut. Three separate but interconnected stories, all set on a deceptively sunny day in California and centered around one million dollars in cash, inspire Hoch's quirky characters to commit acts both devious and depraved in an attempt to make the big score.

Flypaper

1999

Nightforce poster
4.0

Carla is devastated when her friend is kidnapped by a Mexican cartel. After going to her father, a U.S. Senator, she gets her friends, and arms, to cross the border for a rescue mission.

Nightforce

1987

Touched by a Killer poster
5.3

When reporter Nicki Barrington investigates a man on death row for the murder of a young woman, she discovers the evidence was circumstantial and has his conviction overturned. After she falls in love with him, she is nagged by doubts of his innocence.

Touched by a Killer

2001

Allie & Me poster
3.4

Beverly Hills wife Michelle catches her husband in bed with her best friend Allie, who works at Michelle's favorite beauty salon. Shortly thereafter, Michelle and Allie embark on a life of crime, robbing the homes of the salon's wealthy patrons.

Allie & Me

1997

Zombie High poster
4.1

A freshman begins to notice that students at her new school are losing their individuality. She discovers that the faculty are operating on the students' brains to make them docile and productive.

Zombie High

1987

Delta Pi poster
4.0

A sorority house mother enters her girls in a mud-wrestling contest.

Delta Pi

1984

Murder One poster
4.6

This crime drama is based on the true story of Billy Isaacs. Freshly escaped from prison, Isaac is picked up by his brothers, and the entire dysfunctional brood embarks on a crime spree that takes them through a dozen states, claiming the lives of six innocent people .

Murder One

1988

Our Mother's Murder poster
5.4

Fact-based true crime story about the murder of publishing heiress Anne Scripps Douglas who, in 1989, married a young hunk who eventually killed her.

Our Mother's Murder

1997

Scorchers poster
4.4

Bayou La Teche, Louisiana sizzles as the Cajun town celebrates the wedding of Splendid and Dolan. The trouble comes on the wedding night when Splendid is determined to maintain her innocence. On the other side of town Splendids' cousin has her own problems. Her man has been sleeping with Thais, the town hooker. She heads to the Tiger Cafe with gun in hand to get back her man.

Scorchers

1991

State Park poster
4.1

A business man plans to dump toxic waste on a state park, but it doesn't go according to plan.

State Park

1988

Heart of Stone poster
4.3

A psychological thriller about a married women who has an affair with a charming young man and gets involved in a series of murders not knowing if the killer is her lover or her husband or someone else.

Heart of Stone

2001

Confessions: Two Faces of Evil poster
5.4

Two men being questioned in a police station on Christmas Eve both confess to the murder of a cop. With both stories seeming plausible, an investigator is called in to determine which suspect is telling the truth - and why the other one is lying. Crime drama, starring James Earl Jones and Jason Bateman.

Confessions: Two Faces of Evil

1994

Prey of the Chameleon poster
4.9

J.D. returns to his hometown many years after leaving Carrie at the altar. After their unhappy reunion, J.D. heads to California, only to soon fall for a woman he helps with her broken down car. Little does he know that this woman is a serial killer who takes on the identity of each of her victims.

Prey of the Chameleon

1992

Face Value poster
4.5

To help out a friend, and to enjoy a glamorous and fast-paced life for awhile, a guy assumes the identity of his busy and mysterious friend...and ends up being pursued by murderous drug dealers.

Face Value

2001

Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story poster
9.0

Based on the true story of Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan, rivals for the USA Olympic Ice Skating team. When Kerrigan is savagely attacked, people begin to wonder if the intense rivalry between the two was motivation for someone.

Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story

1994

Ivory Tower poster
4.0

In the cutthroat environment of the computer industry, a young executive's passion, determination and integrity are put to the test.

Ivory Tower

1998

3 Holes and a Smoking Gun poster
5.3

An ex-Hollywood screenwriter now teaching an evening class in New York finds himself in a battle of wits with a devious screenwriter student.

3 Holes and a Smoking Gun

2014

Burning Down the House poster
8.5

A down-on-his-luck film director sets fire to his home so he can collect the insurance money and fund his new movie. But crime apparently does pay, because once the rumor mill gets wind of his plans, everyone suddenly wants a slice of his new project's pie.

Burning Down the House

2001

Behind the camera