Cast & creator
James Whitmore Jr.
Best known for NCIS, Bones, NCIS: Los Angeles
James Whitmore Jr. is an American actor and director for film and television.
Also known as: James Whitmore , James Allen Whitmore III , جیمز ویتمور جونیور
18
film credits
109
television credits
52
1971–2024 · acting roles
7.1
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (127)
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NCIS
Director
2003
Bones
Director
2005
NCIS: Los Angeles
Director
2009
24
Director
2001
Blue Bloods
Director
2010
JAG
Director
1995
The X-Files
Director
1993
Suits
Director
2011
Charmed
Director
1998
The Good Wife
Director
2009
Beverly Hills, 90210
Stagecoach Passenger
1990Beverly Hills, 90210
Director
1990
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Director
1997
Person of Interest
Director
2011
CSI: NY
Director
2004
Melrose Place
Director
1992
Star Trek: Enterprise
Director
2001
Las Vegas
Director
2003
Quantum Leap
Bob Crockett
1989Quantum Leap
Clayton Fuller
1989Quantum Leap
Police Captain
1989Quantum Leap
Director
1989
Magnum, P.I.
Billy Joe Bob Little
1980Magnum, P.I.
Sebastian Nuzo
1980
Cold Case
Director
2003
The Resident
Director
2018
Knight Rider
Rick Calley
1982
Angel
Director
1999
Madam Secretary
Director
2014
Dawson's Creek
Director
1998
Hill Street Blues
1981
The Rockford Files
Fred Beamer
1974The Rockford Files
Freddie Beamer
1974
NCIS: New Orleans
Director
2014
The Good Fight
Director
2017
21 Jump Street
Director
1987
T. J. Hooker
Frank Bryce
1982
Airwolf
Sam Houston
1984Airwolf
Maj. Sam Roper
1984
Elsbeth
Director
2024
The Unit
Director
2006
Simon & Simon
1981
Renegade
Director
1992
The Twilight Zone
(segment "Nightcrawlers")
1985The Twilight Zone
(segment "The Girl I Married")
1985
Highway to Heaven
Richard Gaines
1984
Ray Donovan
Director
2013
Evil
Director
2019
Quantico
Director
2015
The Pretender
Captain Russ Osborne
1996The Pretender
Captain Russ Osborne (archive footage)
1996The Pretender
Director
1996
Profiler
Director
1996
Dark Angel
Director
2000
Hunter
Bernie Terwilliger
1984Hunter
Director
1984
Lou Grant
1977
Providence
Director
1999
American Dreams
Director
2002
Roswell
Director
1999
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Colonel Sykes
1983
NCIS: Origins
Director
2024
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
Director
1995
Wiseguy
Director
1987
The Commish
Director
1991
NCIS: Hawaiʻi
Director
2021
Police Story
Jeff Allen
1973
Hardcastle and McCormick
1983Hardcastle and McCormick
Kenneth Boyer
1983
Jericho
Director
2006
Battlestar Galactica
Robber
1978
Dead Like Me
Director
2003
Brooklyn South
Director
1997
McMillan & Wife
1971
The Greatest American Hero
Norman Fackler
1981
10-8: Officers on Duty
Director
2003
Booker
Director
1989
Nowhere Man
Director
1995
Moonlight
Director
2007
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Jim Gutterman
1976
Street Hawk
Neil Jacobs
1985
Pensacola: Wings of Gold
Director
1997
Wanted
Director
2005
Cane
Director
2007
Harper's Island
Director
2009
Get Real
Director
1999
Mister Sterling
Director
2003
Ferris Bueller
Director
1990
First Monday
Director
2002
Models Inc.
Director
1994
Witchblade
Director
2001
The Cleaner
Director
2008
Bret Maverick
1981
J.J. Starbuck
Director
1987
The Fugitive
Director
2000
Strange Luck
Director
1995
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
1980
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Director
1996
The Eddie Capra Mysteries
1978
Doctors' Hospital
1975
Pacific Palisades
Director
1997
The Long Riders
Mr. Rixley
1980
The Bastard
Esau Sholto
1978
Young Americans
Director
2000
Jessie
1984
Sleepwalkers
Director
1997
Tequila and Bonetti
Director
1992
The Critical List
Dr. Jack Hermanson
1978
Broken Badges
Director
1990
A Force of One
Moskowitz
1979
The Killing of Randy Webster
Officer Vane
1981The Yeagers
1980
The Boys in Company C
Lt. Archer
1978
Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac
Captain Larry Wheaton
1984
Tricks of the Trade
Delroy
1988
Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder
Major Flaherty
1982
The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A.
Director
1994
Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop
Jeff Allen
1980
The Five of Me
Harry
1981
The Chinese Typewriter
Jim Kilbride
1979
Law and Order
Pete Caputo
1976
Wiseguy
Director
1996
The Gypsy Warriors
Captain Sheldon 'Shelly' Alhern
1978
Sky High
Director
1990Human Feelings
Detective
1978
Firefighter
Capt. Bukowski
1986
Crowfoot
Director
1995