- Born
- Nickname
- Fred
- Height5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
- Born in Dublin, Ireland, James became fascinated with movies at age seven, and at age ten, he was already reading books about filmmaking. At age fourteen, he made his first film, a four-minute short called "Chase." Over the years, he continued making movies, winning many awards, and showing his movies at prestigious film festivals and competitions worldwide, including the 2007 A.F.I. Dallas International Film Festival and the 2010 Burbank International Film Festival.
James is also a movie critic and is certified by the Critics Choice Association and the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association. He has been reviewing films for all of the major and independent studios in Hollywood since 2013 and interviewed many celebrities and filmmakers, helping them promote their latest projects.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Christian Evans
- Gender / Gender identityMale
- Always appears in his own movies
- Won his very first award in 1990 for his five minute short, Homage to Hitch (1990). It was shot in and around his old college, the Liberties College in Dublin, opposite St. Patrick's Cathedral and was shot in Black & White and used no dialogue, only music, specifically, Bach: Air 'on the G string'.
- In the Spotlight (1997) was the very first film he made after coming to America. It was based on a short film he started shooting when living back in Dublin, Ireland in 1994 he but never got to complete it.
- He was the only person to be involved with both filmed versions of the highly successful Irish stage-play 'The Consequence of Polly'. The first film, Shadow Silence (1995) was made in Dublin, Ireland back in 1994 where he played the villain in the film, Detective O'Brien. When he finally moved to the States, he got the rights to the stage-play and re-made the film as Nemesis (2000). Unhappy with the adaptation of the play into Shadow Silence, he re-made it into Nemesis and the film won 3 independent film awards and was shown at several film festivals around the world.
- His movie A Vicious Lie (1992) was based on a short story he wrote years earlier. In the original script, the two main characters were women where one is plotting to try and seduce the other woman's boyfriend but one of the actresses couldn't make it for filming so he quickly rewrote it so that the two main characters became guys instead. His next movie, Unseen Rival (1993) told the original story the way he had originally written it, with two female leads.
- Met longtime friend Paul Brady in film school back in 1988. They both agreed that they would make a feature film before either one turned 25 and in late 1994, they completed Shadow Silence (1995), their first feature.
- What's for you won't pass you.
- As a director, I love working with actors. They immerse themselves in the characters and so they are constantly asking questions about their motivation, characterizations, mannerisms. In other words, keeping me on my toes.
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