James DuMont

About James DuMont

Actor/Producer James DuMont is one of the busiest performers in & out Hollywood, working in both feature films and television and is currently shooting LAW & ORDER: TRUE CRIME: THE MENENDEZ MURDERS for NBC opposite Edie Falco and most recently was featured as the MEMA director in CBS Films PATRIOTS DAY starring Mark Wahlberg, Kevin Bacon and John Goodman directed by Peter Berg and also portrayed Patrick in Lionsgate DEEPWATER HORIZON opposite Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Kate Hudson and John Malkovich also directed by Peter Berg from Lionsgate and JURASSIC WORLD starring Chris Pratt and Bryce Howard, directed by Colin Trevorrow and recently completed a role in the indie feature LANDLINE starring Tom Arnold and the drama HEART, BABY topling Jackson Rathbone and can next be seen in the indie feature LANDLINE starring Tom Arnold.
DuMont also co-starred as J. Parnell Thomas in the autobiographical, Trumbo opposite Bryan Cranston, directed by Jay Roach from Bleecker Street and portrays WB Nowlin in the Hank Williams bio-pic I Saw The Light from Sony Pictures Classics opposite Tom Hiddleston and Midnight Special in a supporting role as the base commander opposite Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton and Adam Driver directed by Jeff Nichols from Warner Bros.
DuMont's other roles include Rayon's father opposite Oscar winner, Jared Leto in Focus Features’ Dallas Buyers Club and in director Lee Daniels’ The Butler, portraying Chief of Staff Sherman Adams opposite Robin Williams’ Dwight D. Eisenhower. DuMont also appeared in TriStar Pictures’ When the Game Stands Tall with Jim Caviezel and Laura Dern and Corporal Dooley in the James Brown bio-pic, Get On Up, starring Chadwick Boseman and the indie thriller Catch Hell starring Ryan Phillippe, which is also his directorial debut and Jurassic World. Mr. DuMont can next be seen in Little Boy starring Emily Watson and Tom Wilkinson from Open Road Pictures and the indie comedy Mind Puppets starring Kevin Pollak & Vinnie Jones.
DuMont had a supporting role in Barefoot, opposite Evan Rachel Wood & Scott Speedman; Baytown Outlaws, with Billy Bob Thornton and Eva Longoria; and Jean-Claude Van Damme and Scott Adkins' Universal Soldier – Day of Reckoning.
On the small screen, DuMont just completed a guest star role on the Fox series 24: Legacy and recurs on the Cinemax series Quarry and has guested starred on on CSI: New Orleans and had recurring roles as Foster on this season's American Horror Story-Freak Show & Dr. Morrison on America Horror Story-Coven, and the AMC series Halt And Catch Fire. and portrayed Captain Richard La Fouchette on the critically-acclaimed HBO series, Treme, working opposite Oscar-winning actress Melissa Leo. Prior to that, he had a recurring role opposite Ray Romano on TNT’s Men of a Certain Age and was also in the Hallmark movie, Remember Sunday on ABC, with Zachary Levi and the Lifetime/History Channel mini-series, Bonnie and Clyde.
After leaving Boston University for New York City, DuMont worked steadily in theater, discovered Buddhism (which he still practices today) and made his Broadway debut in Six Degrees of Separation (which required nudity for the part). Journalist George Plimpton wrote a piece for Esquire magazine about James and his experience as “the Nudist Buddhist.” After Six Degrees of Separation closed, DuMont performed opposite Mary Louise Parker, Brooke Smith and Sam Robards in Throwing Your Voice, a role that won him a rave review from the New York Times. DuMont then decided to “go nude” once more in the national tour of Six Degrees of Separation.
When that tour ended, DuMont moved to Los Angeles, where he produced award-winning plays and started booking television acting gigs on The George Carlin Show, Lois & Clark, Grey’s Anatomy, Mad Men, Rizzoli and Isles, Harry’s Law and Desperate Housewives.
On the film front, his early feature credits included Speed, S.W.A.T., Catch Me If You Can, War of the Worlds, Seabiscuit and Ocean’s 13.
DuMont, meanwhile had started to produce shorts and features. His short film, The Confession, won 20 of 25 international film festivals with documentary filmmaker Michael Moore calling it “one of the darkest, funniest shorts I have ever seen.”
DuMont also co-produced Statistics, winner of the Audience Award at the Silverlake Film Festival. He also starred in and produced the critically-acclaimed stage production, Serious Games & Morphic Resonance, which won both the L.A. Weekly Award for Best Ensemble and the Los Angeles Times ‘Critic’s Choice Award.’
With over 100 major feature films and television shows under his belt, DuMont’s career is showing no signs of slowing down. He's currently developing feature films with producing partners in New York City, Los Angeles and Louisiana, his own Web Series while revising & adapting his one-man play, My Life as a DJ into a feature film.
Currently living in both New Orleans and New Orleans, DuMont considers himself to be “Bayou Coastal.”