James Gleason is an American actor, known for American Dreamz, S1m0ne, and Mother. Other film credits include The Place Beyond the Pines, Awaken, Stealing Roses, Why Do Fools Fall in Love, Trials of Love, Bloodlines: Murder in the Family, and For Richer, for Poorer.

Television credits include Irish Priest on FX’s Son of the Beach, Father McCauley on CBS’ Brooklyn Bridge, and Jimmy McQuinn on NBC's The Days And Nights Of Molly Dodd.

Theatre credits include his Broadway debut as Harvey Olmstead in The Guys in The Truck (New Apollo Theatre); Off-Broadway, as Murry Marder/Others in Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers (N.Y. Theatre Workshop), Phil in Better Days (Primary Stages), Taylor in Curse of The Starving Class (Promenade Theatre), and Dermond Gibbon The Patrick Pearse Motel (Riverwest Theatre); and regionally, as Charley in Death of a Salesman and his Drama-Logue Award-winning role, Charles McFadden, in Counsellor-At-Law (InterAct Theatre).