James Russo
Actor
Filmography (All Films)
- Exposed (1983)
- Dir. James Toback
Feat. Nastassja Kinski, Harvey Keitel, Rudolph Nureyev…
- Typically unrestrained effort from cult director Toback has Nastassja Kinski in fine form as a midwestern girl seeking fame in New York CIty.
If…
- Extremities (1986)
- Dir. Robert M. Young
Feat. Farrah Fawcett, James Russo, Diana Scarwid…
- Notoriously violent drama concerns a rape–victim who turns the tables on her attacker when he returns to torment her. Something of a 'cause…
- China Girl (1987)
- Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. David Caruso, James Russo
- Dir. Abel Ferrara’s violent riff on ‘Romeo and Juliet’ (and WEST SIDE STORY for that matter) set around rival Chinese and Italian street gangs…
- We're No Angels (1989)
- Dir. Neil Jordan
Feat. Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Demi Moore…
- Robert De Niro and Sean Penn team up as a couple of escaped convicts who cross the border in clergical attire.
- Belt, The (La Cintura) (1989)
- Dir. Giuliana Gamba
Feat. James Russo
- American teacher James Russo embarks on an affair with a beautiful Italian woman in Rome, which gets interesting when she buys him a belt... to whip…
- My Own Private Idaho (1991)
- Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Keanu Reeves, River Phoenix, James Russo…
- Melancholic tale imbued with the director's stylistic flair stars Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix as a pair of young hustlers with opposing personal…
- Dangerous Game (1993)
- Dir. Abel Ferrara
Feat. Harvey Keitel, Madonna, James Russo
- Fascinating descent into the dark recesses of a film–directing mind (Ferrara's). It opens as a film–within–a–film about a…
- Panther (1995)
- Dir. Mario Van Peebles
Feat. Kadeem Hardison, Bokeem Woodbine, Joe Don Baker…
- Released to some controversy, this relates the saga of the 60s community group–turned–'urban guerillas', the Black Panthers. A violent,…
- No Way Home (1996)
- Dir. Buddy Giovinazzo
Feat. Tim Roth, James Russo, Deborah Kara Unger
- A recently paroled Tim Roth finds his hopes for a new life threatened by his brothers involvement with drugs. Though the introduction of a thriller…
- Postman, The (1998)
- Dir. Kevin Costner
Feat. Kevin Costner, Will Patton, Larenz Tate…
- The postie, Kevin Costner, delivers another clutch of post–apocalyptic improbabilities a la WATERWORLD. Again playing Man From Nowhere, here he…
- Ninth Gate, The (2000)
- Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin…
- An unscrupulous book dealer (Johnny Depp) is sent to Europe by a mysterious tycoon (Frank Langella) to recover an authentic, elusive (and of course,…
- Open Range (2003)
- Dir. Kevin Costner
Feat. Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall, Annette Bening…
- Costner stars and takes the reins of this latterday Western about a group of itinerant cattle grazers fending off the thuggish tactics of a brutal…
- Broken Trail (TV Mini-series) (2006)
- Dir. Walter Hill
Feat. Robert Duvall, Thomas Haden Church, Greta Scacchi…
- High calibrE made–for–TV western about an aging cowboy and his nephew who rescue five Chinese girls from a slave trader while…
- Public Enemies (2009)
- Dir. Michael Mann
Feat. Johnny Depp, Marion Cotillard, Christian Bale…
- Michael Mann transposes the cops–and–robbers psychology of HEAT to depression–era America in this ambitious, if at times inadequate…