Acting

James Ransone

Born 1979-06-02 · Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Died 2025-12-19

James Finley Ransone III (June 2, 1979 – December 19, 2025) was an American actor and musician. He was best known for his roles as Ziggy Sobotka in the second season of the drama series The Wire, United States Marine Corps Cpl. Josh Ray Person in the war drama miniseries Generation Kill (2008), The Deputy in the supernatural horror films Sinister (2012) and Sinister 2 (2015), Chester in Tangerine (2015), the adult Eddie Kaspbrak in It Chapter Two (2019), and Max in The Black Phone movies. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Ransone, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Credits

Newest first

Black Phone 2
as Max
2025
V/H/S/85
as Bobby (segment "Dreamkill")
2023
Poker Face
as Juice
2023
Merry F*cking Christmas: The Making of Tangerine
as Self
2022
The Black Phone
as Max Shaw
2022
Small Engine Repair
as PJ
2021
What We Found
as Sgt. Steven Mohler
2020
50 States of Fright
as Sebastian Klepner
2020
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends
as Self
2019
It Chapter Two
as Eddie Kaspbrak
2019
Captive State
as Ellison
2019
The First
as Nick Fletcher
2018
Fish in the Sea
as Jack
2018
Tough Love
as Man
2018
Doulo
as Edwin
2018
Family Blood
as Christopher
2018
Write When You Get Work
as Steven Noble
2018
The Clapper
as Darth Guy
2018
Mosaic
as Michael O'Connor
2018
It Happened in L.A.
as Heath
2017
SEAL Team
as Reiss Julian
2017
Gemini
as Stan
2017
In a Valley of Violence
as Gilly
2016
Light Up the Night
as Joe
2016
Mr. Right
as Von Cartigan
2016
Conventional
as Stu Mac 3
2015
Fun Size Horror: Volume Two
as Stu Mac 3 (segment 'Conventional')
2015
Sinister 2
as Ex-Deputy So & So
2015
Tangerine
as Chester
2015
Bloomin Mud Shuffle
as Lonnie
2015
The Timber
as Wyatt
2015
Bosch
as Eddie Arceneaux
2015
Fruits De Mer
as George
2014
Cymbeline
as Philario
2014
Kristy
as Scott
2014
This American Life: Live at BAM
as David
2014
Granted!
as Larry
2014
False True Love
2014
Electric Slide
as Jan Phillips
2014
Oldboy
as Dr. Tom Melby
2013
The Man Who Came Out Only at Night
as The Man Who Came Out Only at Night
2013
Empire State
as Agent Nugent
2013
Low Winter Sun
as Damon Callis
2013
Broken City
as Todd Lancaster
2013
Year of the Rat
2013
Starlet
as Mikey
2012
Sinister
as Deputy
2012
Red Hook Summer
as Kevin
2012
The Lie
as Weasel
2011
The Son of No One
as Officer Thomas Prudenti
2011
The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll
as Chip Genson
2011
The Next Three Days
as Harv
2010
Conan
as Self - Guest
2010
Freakonomics
as Himself
2010
Hawaii Five-0
as Johnny D. / Perry Hutchinson
2010
Making Generation Kill
as Self
2008
Generation Kill
as Josh Ray Person
2008
Prom Night
as Detective Nash
2008
Burn Notice
as Dennis Wayne Barfield
2007
Jericho
as Daryl
2006
Puccini for Beginners
as Lone Guy at Bistro
2006
Inside Man
as Steve-O
2006
The Good Humor Man
as Junebug
2005
Malachance
as Mika
2004
Downtown: A Street Tale
as Billy
2004
A Dirty Shame
as Dingy Dave
2004
Ken Park
as Tate
2003
Nola
as Neo-Gothboy
2003
Fan Mail
as Ricky
2003
The Wire
as Chester 'Ziggy' Sobotka
2002
The American Astronaut
as Bodysuit
2001
Ed
as Gary Morton
2000
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Zack Capola
2000
Third Watch
as Frankie
1999
Law & Order
as Mark Dale
1990
Law & Order
as Michael Whelan
1990