James Farentino was an American actor, best known for Bulletproof, Her Alibi, Dead and Buried, and The Final Countdown. Other film credits include Role Model: Gene Wilder, Drive/II, Dazzle, Family Sins, A Summer to Remember, Something So Right, No Margin for Error, Celebrity Challenge of the Sexes 2, Vanished, The Sound of Anger, and Death of Salesman.

Television credits include Mr. Beck on FOX’s Melrose Place, Ray Ross on NBC’s ER, Dr. Nick Toscanni on ABC’s Dynasty, Neil Darrell on NBC’s The Bold Ones: The Lawyers, David Westfield in the CBS miniseries Sins, and Simon Peter in the NBC miniseries Jesus of Nazareth.

Broadway theatre credits include his debut as Pedro in The Night of the Iguana (Royale Theatre); Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire (Vivian Beaumont Theatre); and Biff in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Circle in the Square Theatre).