James Sloyan

AKA: James J. Sloyan, James Joseph Sloyan

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1940-02-24

Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Biography

James Joseph Sloyan (born February 24, 1940 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American actor.

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {78}

Mottola

1973-12-25 8.022

The Sting

A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster. ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama

1986-02-11 9

Vital Signs

Two doctors, a father and son, conceal their alcohol and drug problems in this potent look at the abuse of those substances that exist in the medical profession. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Simpson

1980-08-08 5.708

Xanadu

Kira, a Greek muse incarnated on Earth to inspire people, helps Dan McGuire and an artist named Sonny Malone to meet. She inspires them to build a huge disco roller rink called Xanadu. ...

Genre :Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance

Piquant (as James J. Sloyan)

1970-10-01 5.5

The Traveling Executioner

Jonas Candide performs his job as state executioner in early 20th century Mississippi like a combination preacher and carnival barker, persuading condemned men to accept their deaths before electrocut ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Western

Joey

1971-12-22 5

The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight

A Brooklyn mobster and his gang try to rub out their rivals. ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Lubeck

1976-09-22 6

The Million Dollar Rip-Off

An electronics genius, who is an ex-con, and four of his lady friends devise a plot to steal millions of dollars from the Chicago Transit Authority. A detective, who had been keeping tabs on him since ...

Genre :Crime, Thriller, TV Movie

Dist. Atty. Asa Keyes

1976-11-17 8

The Disappearance of Aimee

In 1926, celebrated evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson mysteriously disappeared. She turned up several weeks later and recounted the details of her kidnapping and escape to authorities. Not everyone be ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie, Mystery

Tony Bonelli

1979-11-10 6.8

Act of Violence

A liberal-minded, divorced newswriter is the victim of a brutal mugging. Robbed of her confidence, she finds her life cloaked in fear and paranoia, causing her to reevaluate her lifelong beliefs. ...

Genre :TV Movie, Drama, Crime

Sheriff John Thomas

1985-09-29 7

Amos

Amos Lasher loses his wife and home in an accident, finding himself in the care of the state, or specifically speaking, the Sunset Nursing Home. Here he finds the head nurse, Daisy Daws, ruling the co ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Dr. Paul Proteus

1972-03-13 8

Between Time and Timbuktu

A poet-astronaut is shot through an area of space called the Chronosynclastic Infundibulum. He is duplicated into infinite copies of himself, each of whom finds himself in a bizarre situations on a di ...

Genre :Comedy, Science Fiction, TV Movie

Dunne

1992-03-02 4.8

Woman With a Past

A woman lives a normal life with her second husband and her two sons of the first marriage. One day she is caught by her past and the film reveales in flashbacks her stations of life until the day the ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Paul Stevenson

1991-04-01 6.1

Changes

Melanie is a top TV news reporter, living in New York with her twin teenage daughters. Peter is a handsome and divorced heart surgeon working at an L.A. hospital with three children of his own. A chan ...

Genre :TV Movie, Drama, Romance

John David Yeager

1980-06-27 0

Trouble in High Timber Country

A proud patriarch battles union organizers and a powerful conglomerate threatening the family-owned lumber and mining operation which he runs with his three sons, his daughter and his nephew in this p ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Eddie

1981-05-19 3

The Violation of Sarah McDavid

Sarah McDavid, an idealistic young teacher, takes a job in a rough high school where she is eventually attacked and raped in her classroom after school hours and decides to buck the school system in a ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Williams

1971-02-25 10

Paradise Lost

Playwright Clifford Odets' portrait of the Great Depression unfolds in the modest two-family home of Leo and Clara Gordon as misfortune strikes them and the people running with them. Opened on Broadwa ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Pete Notario

1973-03-01 4

Honor Thy Father

Joseph Bologna stars as Bill Bonanno in this made-for-television adaptation of the controversial bestseller from Gay Talese, chronicling the rise of New York's infamous Bonanno organized crime family. ...

Genre :Crime, History, Drama, TV Movie

Niles Brokaw

1996-05-06 6.3

My Son Is Innocent

After a brutal nighttime attack on a woman alone in her suburban home, police investigators zero in on teenager Eric Sutter. When the victim identifies Sutter as her attacker, the legal system closes ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Dr. Zach Emerson

1987-03-08 5.3

Bigfoot

A family goes to the mountains for a few days, and there they meet... Bigfoot! ...

Genre :Adventure, Family, Fantasy, TV Movie

1988-05-10 4

Who Gets the Friends?

Neat and interesting story about a couple being divorced. It is easy to split all the things they've bought, but the real question is: Who gets the friends? ...

Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

Bubba Wrench

1981-10-13 6.7

Callie & Son

A fictional drama, covering a 30-year period, about a poverty-stricken teenager forced to give up her illegitimate son at birth, and the climb to wealth and power as the wife of a newspaper publisher ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Frankie Scamantino

1974-11-20 5.3

Panic on the 5:22

Three armed men take over a private railroad car, determined to rob and kill the passengers. ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Thriller, TV Movie

John Malloy

1982-01-20 6.6

Prime Suspect

A respectable businessman becomes the prime suspect in the abduction and murder of several young girls. He is hounded by the media and disowned by his friends and neighbours. ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller

Wardell

1987-04-12 5

Her Secret Life

Kate Capshaw plays a schoolteacher and suburban housewife who happens to be an ex-spy. Nobody knows of Capshaw's previous espionage activities, least of all her somewhat obtuse husband Cliff De Young. ...

Genre :Action, Thriller, TV Movie

Vinnie Kovack

1974-04-05 2

The Family Kovack

A tightly-knit family headed by a beleaguered Chicago widow rallies behind the eldest son when he is charged with bribing a city health department inspector in this pilot for a possible series. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Max Drummond

1985-09-24 6.503

Growing Pains

Fatherhood has taken on a whole new meaning for Jason Seaver, who has assumed the chores of cooking, cleaning and minding the kids so that his wife, Maggie, can pursue a career in journalism after spe ...

Genre :Comedy

Jack Sloan

1981-12-04 5.527

Falcon Crest

Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced. The series r ...

Genre :Soap, Drama

Lt. Spoletti

1984-09-30 7.533

Murder, She Wrote

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases. ...

Genre :Mystery, Crime, Drama

1977-09-15 6.822

CHiPs

Lighthearted look at the adventures of two Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. The main characters are Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello, two motorcycle officers always on the street to save lives. ...

Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure

1984-09-20 7.367

Who's the Boss?

A former professional baseball player, along with his preteen daughter, moves into New York advertising executive Angela Bower's house to be both a housekeeper and a father figure to her young son. To ...

Genre :Comedy

Mike 'Scoop' McGill

1980-01-27 6.8

Tenspeed and Brown Shoe

Tenspeed and Brown Shoe is an American detective/comedy series originally broadcast by the ABC network between January and June 1980. The series was created and executive produced by Stephen J. Cannel ...

Genre :Drama, Crime, Comedy

Admiral Alidar Jarok

1987-09-28 8.36

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Follow the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal crew aboard the all-new USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, as they explore new worlds. ...

Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama, Mystery

Jerry Rattinger

1990-10-04 7.319

Beverly Hills, 90210

Follow the lives of a group of teenagers living in the upscale, star-studded community of Beverly Hills, California and attending the fictitious West Beverly Hills High School and, subsequently, the f ...

Genre :Drama, Soap

Dr. Jetrel

1995-01-16 7.8

Star Trek: Voyager

Pulled to the far side of the galaxy, where the Federation is 75 years away at maximum warp speed, a Starfleet ship must cooperate with Maquis rebels to find a way home. ...

Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Action & Adventure

Dr. Lucas Forbes

1986-03-03 7.1

Matlock

Matlock is an American television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role of criminal defense attorney Ben Matlock. The show, produced by The Fred Silverman Company, Dean Hargrove Produc ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Charles Fleming

1968-09-20 7.1

Hawaii Five-O

Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama

1985-03-03 7.525

Moonlighting

After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various cases, while getting comfortable with each other. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Crime

1984-09-19 7.4

Highway to Heaven

A probationary angel is sent back to Earth to team up with an ex-cop and help people. ...

Genre :Family, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Barney Smith

1979-09-20 6.976

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

20th-century astronaut Buck Rogers awakens in the 25th century after a freak accident puts him in suspended animation for 500 years. Upon returning to Earth and discovering the planet is recovering fr ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

1972-09-23 7.02

The Streets of San Francisco

Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate murders and other serious crimes in San Francisco. Stone would become a second father to Keller as he learn ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Action & Adventure

1978-09-10 5

Kaz

Kaz is an American crime drama series that aired on CBS from September 10, 1978 to April 22, 1979. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

1982-08-21 6.8

Hotel

Hotel is an American prime time drama series which aired on ABC from September 21, 1983 to May 5, 1988 in the timeslot following Dynasty. Based on Arthur Hailey's 1965 novel of the same name, the ser ...

Genre :Drama, Soap

George Fraley

1985-09-29 7.729

MacGyver

He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon. Armed with only a knapsack filled with everyday items h ...

Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure, Crime

Taylor Naughton

1979-12-27 6.7

Knots Landing

The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community. ...

Genre :Drama, Soap

Theodore Moody

1989-03-26 8.031

Quantum Leap

Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror imag ...

Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama

Jack Murzie

1973-10-24 7.02

Kojak

A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City. ...

Genre :Crime, Action & Adventure, Drama, Mystery

1982-03-25 6.97

Cagney & Lacey

Mary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing personalities (one is tough and the other sensitive) mesh to make this one of the great crime-fighting duos of ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Avery Baltus

1994-09-12 7.02

Party of Five

Five brothers and sisters are determined to stay together following the tragic loss of their parents. ...

Genre :Drama

Dr. Frank Nollette

1993-09-10 8.4

The X-Files

The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the p ...

Genre :Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Crime

Superintendent Hazen

1993-01-01 7.603

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

Dr. Michaela Quinn journeys to Colorado Springs to be the town's physician after her father's death in 1868. ...

Genre :Western, Drama

Mark Reuben

1975-11-07 7.019

Wonder Woman

With the strength of Hercules, the wisdom of Athena, the speed of Mercury and the beauty of Aphrodite, she’s Wonder Woman. Beautiful Amazon princess Wonder Woman travels to 1940s America disguised as ...

Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama

1987-09-26 6.2

Jake and the Fatman

Jake and the Fatman is a television crime drama starring William Conrad as prosecutor J. L. "Fatman" McCabe and Joe Penny as investigator Jake Styles. The series ran on CBS for five seasons from 1987 ...

Genre :Drama, Crime, Action & Adventure

1971-09-14 6.556

Cannon

Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976. The primary protagonist is the title character, private detective Frank Cannon, p ...

Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure

Mr. Drishler

1989-04-23 5.969

Baywatch

Join the Baywatch lifeguards on their thrilling adventures filled with beautiful beaches and those iconic red swimsuits. ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama, Crime

District Attorney Asa Keyes

1951-12-24 8.6

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of tel ...

Genre :Drama

Henry Strauss

1994-09-18 7.214

Chicago Hope

Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The series is set in a fictional private charity hospita ...

Genre :Soap, Drama

1988-10-23 7.507

Mission: Impossible

Mission: Impossible is an American television series that chronicles the missions of a team of secret American government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force. The show is a revival of the 19 ...

Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure, Crime

1987-03-19 5

The Bronx Zoo

The Bronx Zoo is a 1987 NBC drama series directed by Allan Arkush and Paul Lynch. It lasted two seasons before cancellation. ...

Genre :Drama

1984-07-13 6.6

Brothers

Two conservative men support their younger brother when he comes out as gay, and help him navigate being openly homosexual in 1980s Philadelphia. ...

Genre :Comedy

Board Chairman Emmanuel 'Manny' Tubbs

1993-10-29 7.1

Diagnosis: Murder

Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders. ...

Genre :Drama, Family, Mystery, Crime

1974-09-11 5

The Manhunter

The Manhunter is an American crime drama that was part of CBS' lineup for the 1974–1975 television season. The series was produced by Quinn Martin and starred Ken Howard as Dave Barret, a 1930s-era pr ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Charlie Wayne

1983-09-27 6

Oh Madeline

Oh Madeline was an American sitcom that was broadcast on ABC from September 27, 1983 to March 13, 1984. Starring Madeline Kahn, the show revolved around Madeline Wayne, a housewife bored after 10 year ...

Genre :Comedy

1984-09-27 6.2

Partners in Crime

Partners in Crime is an American crime drama television series that aired from September 22 until December 29, 1984. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Dr. Sam Lanagan

1977-03-15 0

Westside Medical

Westside Medical is an American medical drama that aired from March 17 until August 25, 1977. ...

Genre :

C.W. Butterfield

1984-09-30 7.533

Murder, She Wrote

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases. ...

Genre :Mystery, Crime, Drama

Harv

1989-04-23 5.969

Baywatch

Join the Baywatch lifeguards on their thrilling adventures filled with beautiful beaches and those iconic red swimsuits. ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama, Crime

Ronald Ziegler

1979-05-20 5

Blind Ambition

The Watergate crisis as viewed by John Dean and his wife Maureen, based on their personal accounts -- his best-seller, her book on how it affected their marriage -- and distilled into an eight-hour dr ...

Genre :War & Politics, Drama

District Attorney

1987-11-08 8.7

Billionaire Boys Club

Billionaire Boys Club is a two-part TV movie that aired on NBC in 1987. It told the story of the Billionaire Boys Club, and its founder, Joe Hunt, who was convicted in 1987 of murdering con-man Ron Le ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Sonny Brezner

1985-03-03 7.525

Moonlighting

After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various cases, while getting comfortable with each other. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Crime

Dr. Mora

1993-01-03 7.892

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

At Deep Space Nine, a space station located next to a wormhole in the vicinity of the liberated planet of Bajor, Commander Sisko and crew welcome alien visitors, root out evildoers and solve all types ...

Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama

Robert Butler

1984-09-30 7.533

Murder, She Wrote

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases. ...

Genre :Mystery, Crime, Drama

Henry Colter

1985-09-29 7.729

MacGyver

Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure, Crime

Harry

1985-10-04 6.87

Misfits of Science

A superhero fantasy television series featuring super-powered humans and their madcap adventures. ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Elliot Atkins

1986-03-03 7.1

Matlock

Genre :Drama, Crime

Don Shoop

1981-11-24 6.7

Simon & Simon

A.J. Simon is a polished fellow with a taste for classic cars and tailored suits. Rick Simon is his less refined (but still pleasant) older brother who has a taste for cowboy boots and four-wheel driv ...

Genre :Drama

Barry Ulin

1993-09-21 7.006

NYPD Blue

Police drama set in New York City, exploring the internal and external struggles of the fictional 15th precinct of Manhattan. Each episode typically intertwined several plots involving an ensemble cas ...

Genre :Drama

Hank Dougherty

1977-09-20 7.3

Lou Grant

The trials of a former television station manager turned newspaper city editor, and his journalist staff. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Hank Foster

1976-09-09 0

Delvecchio

Dominick Delvecchio is an Italian-American detective who worked for the LAPD and also studied to become a lawyer. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Jake Diamond

1977-09-24 6.3

The Love Boat

Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac ...