James Urbaniak Filmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Tall, dark, and scarecrow-thin, James Urbaniak is probably best known to art house audiences for his work in Hal Hartley's Henry Fool (1997) and The Book of Life (1998). Urbaniak, who met Hartley in the mid-1990s, made his film debut courtesy of the director, who cast the actor in his short Comedy...Read More

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Synopsis: The Kid Stays in the Picture director Brett Morgen turns his unique eye toward the infamous 1968 Democratic National Convention in this 2006 documentary. Using a star-studded voice cast along with a blend of archival footage and animation, Morgen tells the story of the eight demonstrators who were Read More

2/29/08
The Venture Bros.: Season 03

Actors: Christopher McCulloch, Michael Sinterniklaas, James Urbaniak, Patrick Warburton

2008
Across the Universe

Actors: Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, Martin Luther McCoy

Synopsis: Set against the anti-war protests, rock & roll revolution, and mind-expanding psychedelia of the 1960s, Julie Taymor's hallucinogenic musical follows the arduous journey of star-crossed lovers Jude (Jim Sturgess) and Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood) as they and a small group of musicians are swept up in Read More

9/28/07
Fay Grim

Actors: Parker Posey, Jeff Goldblum, James Urbaniak, Saffron Burrows, Liam Aiken

Synopsis: A single mother from Queens becomes unwittingly embroiled in international espionage indirector Hal Hartley's sequel to the critically acclaimed Henry Fool. Fay Grim (Parker Posey) is determined to raise her 14-year-old son Ned (Liam Aiken) so he won't be like his father Henry (Thomas Jay Ryan) Read More

5/18/07
Death of a President

Actors: Hend Ayoub, Brian Boland, Becky Ann Baker, Robert Mangiardi, Jay Patterson

Synopsis: The assassination of the most powerful leader in the free world is examined in this controversial mockumentary from British filmmaker Gabriel Range. On October 19, 2007, president George W. Bush is visiting Chicago when he impulsively stops to shake hands with supporters en route to a meeting Read More

10/27/06
The Venture Bros.: Season 02

Actors: Christopher McCulloch, Michael Sinterniklaas, James Urbaniak, Patrick Warburton

2006
The Girl From Monday

Actors: Bill Sage, Sabrina Lloyd, Tatiana Abracos, Leo Fitzpatrick, DJ Mendel

Synopsis: Independent auteur Hal Hartley wrote and directed this satirical exercise in what he calls "fake science fiction." In the near future, following a violent overthrow of the American government, the United States has come under the rule of the MMM, a Multi-Media Monopoly which runs the country as a Read More

4/15/05
Road

Actors: Catherine Kellner, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, James Urbaniak

Synopsis: A working vacation takes two former lovers into a strange and dangerous place in this offbeat independent thriller. Margaret (Catherine Kellner) is a photographer who has landed an assignment with the federal government to document toxic waste sights along the U.S.-Canadian border. With a long Read More

2005
Teknolust

Actors: Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Davies, James Urbaniak, Karen Black, Al Nazemian

Synopsis: In this offbeat sci-fi-drama, Rosetta Stone (Tilda Swinton) is a scientist specializing in biogenetics who has made a major breakthrough in artificial biological engineering. Rosetta has created a type of Self-Replicating Automaton, which looks like a human being, but is in fact part machine and Read More

2/20/04
The Venture Bros.: Season 01

Actors: Christopher McCulloch, Michael Sinterniklaas, James Urbaniak, Patrick Warburton

2004
American Splendor

Actors: Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis, Harvey Pekar, Shari Springer Berman, James Urbaniak, Judah Friedlander

Synopsis: The documentary directing team of Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman makes their narrative feature debut with the biographical comedy drama American Splendor. Harvey Pekar (Paul Giamatti) is a comic book writer inspired by the work of his friend Robert Crumb (James Urbaniak). Pekar writes Read More

8/15/03
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde

Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Sally Field, Regina King, Jennifer Coolidge, Bruce McGill

Synopsis: Taking home a paycheck that nearly rivals the budget of the first film, Reese Witherspoon reprises the role of Elle Woods in this sequel to 2001's surprise blockbuster Legally Blonde. When she's fired from her job at an upscale law firm for voicing her stance against the testing of cosmetics on Read More

7/2/03
Plain Dirty

Actors: Dominique Swain, Henry Thomas, Arie Verveen, James Urbaniak, Karen Allen

Synopsis: Zev Berman's thriller Killing Edgar stars Dominique Swain as Inez Macbeth, a woman married to the volatile criminal Edgar (Henry Thomas). She has grown tired of their marriage and strays outside of her vows. Edgar finds out and proceeds to hold her prisoner in her own house with the help of his Read More

2003
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Actors: Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Rutger Hauer

Synopsis: Chuck Barris is best known to most Americans as the guy who used to host The Gong Show. He was also the creator and producer of The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and a handful of other successful game shows in the 1960s and 1970s. But was he also a hired killer working with the CIA? Read More

12/31/02
Fortunes

Synopsis: Three friends find that fate may play a greater role in their lives than they originally thought after visiting an inner-city psychic in this comic tale of from first-time director Parker Cross. Inspired to have their fortunes told after a drunken night on the town, easygoing investment banker Read More

2002
Sweet and Lowdown

Actors: Sean Penn, Samantha Morton, Uma Thurman, Brian Markinson, Anthony LaPaglia, Woody Allen

Synopsis: Woody Allen immerses himself in the world of vintage jazz in this period mock-biography of a musician gifted in his art but a sad student in life. Emmet Ray (Sean Penn) is a 1930s jazz guitarist considered one of the finest musicians ever to touch a fretboard, second only to the legendary Django Read More

12/3/99
Henry Fool

Actors: Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak, Parker Posey, Maria Porter, James Saito, Kevin Corrigan, Liam Aiken, Veanne Cox, Jan Leslie Harding

Synopsis: Simon Grim (James Urbaniak) is a garbageman, and his life is about as unpleasant and uneventful as you'd expect given his profession; he doesn't much care for his work, he's treated with violence or contempt by most of the people in his neighborhood, and he shares a house with Mary (Maria Porter) Read More

6/19/98
The Book of Life

Actors: Martin Donovan, PJ Harvey, Thomas Jay Ryan, David Simonds, Miho Nikaido

Synopsis: Hal Hartley directed this French-produced comedy about the Second Coming of Christ (Martin Donovan), with Thomas Jay Ryan in the role of Satan. While a gambler (David Simonds) and a waitress (Miho Nikaido) talk with Satan in a hotel bar, Jesus arrives at JFK airport with Magdalena (PJ Harvey). Read More

1998
The Sticky Fingers of Time

Actors: Terumi Matthews, Nicole Zaray, James Urbaniak, Belinda Becker, Leo Marks

Synopsis: Writer-director Hilary Brougher, during a four-week Super-16mm shoot, made her directorial debut with this low-budget time-travel tale about '50s journalist-novelist Tucker Harding (Terumi Matthews), author of The Sticky Fingers of Death. Transported from 1950 Brooklyn to the present, Tucker meets Read More

1997
The Last Romantic