James Morrison est un acteur, producteur, réalisateur et scénariste américain, né le 21 avril 1954 à Bountiful, dans l'Utah (États-Unis) notamment connu pour son rôle de l'agent Bill Buchanan dans la série télévisée 24 heures chrono.

Biographie

A professional theater actor, Morrison has been on the professional stage since the early 1980s and has won awards such as the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Performance. He has also directed theater productions. Morrison is a published poet, yoga teacher, and a singer/songwriter. He has composed two albums to date, which can be heard and purchased on his official website.

On television, Morrison has guest starred in series such as Frasier, Quantum Leap, The X-Files, JAG, Murder, She Wrote, The West Wing and Six Feet Under. Morrison frequently works with producers Glen Morgan and James Wong, and was a main cast member of their 1995 series Space: Above and Beyond. He also worked with Wong in the movie The One as hero Jet Li's best friend.

He was Counter Terrorist Unit Director Bill Buchanan on 24. He began as a guest star mid-way through the fourth season (2005), and was a main cast member in the fifth, sixth, and seventh seasons (2006, 2007, 2009).

Morrison and his wife Riad Galayini co-directed and produced the feature documentary Showing Up. In this unprecedented look at the audition, some of our most accomplished working actors reflect on the process and how it affects them.

Morrison can be seen currently as Nick in The Jazz Funeral which had its World Premiere at the Dances With Films festival in Los Angeles on June 1, 2014.