
James’ theatre credits include: Joe in Amongst Friends (Hampstead Theatre); Humphrey in The Common Pursuit (Menier Chocolate Factory); Emcee in Cabaret (Lyric Theatre); Alan Quine in Donkeys’ Years (Comedy Theatre); Carmen Gia in The Producers (West End premiere, Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Billy, Rupert, Michael and Pierre Hickory Wood in One for the Pot (Windsor); Ned in Elizabeth Rex, Lula/Leon/Harry/Miss Chapman in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Al in The Grapes of Wrath (all Birmingham Rep); Russell Paxton in Lady in the Dark (Olivier Award, Royal National Theatre); Medvedenko in The Seagull (Thelma Holt Productions, number one tour); Grimald in King Arthur (Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon); Cassius in Julius Caesar (Ian Charleson Award 2nd Prize, Birmingham Rep); Sean in Playing by the Rules (Birmingham Rep Theatre and transfer to the Drill Hall); Gary in Eurovision (Vaudeville Theatre); Christopher/Patrick in Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (Criterion Theatre); Cleante in The Hypochondriac (Cambridge Theatre Company); Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Marlowe in She Stoops to Conquer, William Featherstone in How the Other Half Loves, Laertes in Hamlet (all Harrogate Theatre); Young Freud in Augustine (Big Hysteria) (Paines Plough/Lyric Hammersmith); Gervasius in Purgatory in Ingolstadt (Gate Theatre).
His television credits include: Rory in Casualty, Raymond Carstairs in Waking the Dead, Professor Fluke in Gormenghast and The All New Alexei Sayle Show II (BBC); Julian in He Kills Coppers (Ecosse TV Productions Ltd); George in My Hero (Big Bear Films); McBride/Lawrence in Double Time and Postman in The Lenny Henry Show (both Tiger Aspect); Oscar in The Bette Show (CBS); Tom in Gimme Gimme Gimme (three series, Tiger Aspect for BBC); Chris in The Last Shout, an Absolutely Fabulous special (Saunders & French Productions); PC Kevin Goody in The Thin Blue Line (Best Comedy Newcomer, British Comedy Awards, Tiger Aspect, two series for the BBC); Anthony Palmer in Frontiers (Beambright for Carlton); Chris in Absolutely Fabulous (series three, BBC); Beluniare in Paris (Talkback series for Ch4).
Film credits include: Melvyn in Colour Me Kubrick (Colour Me K Ltd); Fidor in Fat Slags (Funny Films Ltd/Artists Independent Network); Gordon in Agent Cody Banks II (MGM); Teezy Weezy in Churchill the Hollywood Years (Little Bird Company Ltd); Jake Spoonbender in Being Considered (Spice Factory/ Redbus); Martin in Notting Hill; First Subaltern in Richard III (Red Rooster Films); Paul in Boyfriends (Essex Films); Greg in Thin Ice (Swamplands Productions, Sydney/Thin Ice Ltd).