James Ransone
Known for: Acting
Born: June 2, 1979
Died: December 19, 2025
Place of birth: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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.
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Filmography
58 movies · 17 TV shows, newest first
6.6
Black Phone 2
2025
5.7
V/H/S/85
2023
7.4
Poker Face
2023
8.0
Merry F*cking Christmas: The Making of Tangerine
2022
7.5
The Black Phone
2022
6.1
Small Engine Repair
2021
5.0
What We Found
2020
7.2
50 States of Fright
2020
7.1
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends
2019
6.8
It Chapter Two
2019
5.7
Captive State
2019
6.0
The First
2018
NR
Fish in the Sea
2018
NR
Tough Love
2018
NR
Doulo
2018
4.6
Family Blood
2018
3.9
Write When You Get Work
2018
4.9
The Clapper
2018
6.5
Mosaic
2018
5.0
It Happened in L.A.
2017
8.0
SEAL Team
2017
5.4
Gemini
2017
5.5
Light Up the Night
2016
6.1
In a Valley of Violence
2016
6.4
Mr. Right
2016
6.9
Conventional
2015
3.9
Fun Size Horror: Volume Two
2015
5.9
Sinister 2
2015
6.9
Tangerine
2015
3.9
Bloomin Mud Shuffle
2015
5.1
The Timber
2015
7.9
Bosch
2015
NR
Fruits De Mer
2014
3.9
Cymbeline
2014
6.1
Kristy
2014
8.1
This American Life: Live at BAM
2014
NR
Granted!
2014
NR
False True Love
2014
5.0
Electric Slide
2014
5.9
Oldboy
2013
NR
The Man Who Came Out Only at Night
2013
5.4
Empire State
2013
6.2
Low Winter Sun
2013
6.0
Broken City
2013
NR
Year of the Rat
2013
6.8
Starlet
2012
6.9
Sinister
2012
5.4
Red Hook Summer
2012
5.4
The Lie
2011
5.1
The Son of No One
2011
5.5
The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll
2011
7.1
The Next Three Days
2010
7.2
Conan
2010
6.1
Freakonomics
2010
7.7
Hawaii Five-0
2010
8.5
Making Generation Kill
2008
7.9
Generation Kill
2008
5.1
Prom Night
2008
7.5
Burn Notice
2007
7.4
Jericho
2006
5.5
Puccini for Beginners
2006
7.4
Inside Man
2006
4.4
The Good Humor Man
2005
8.0
Malachance
2004
5.5
Downtown: A Street Tale
2004
5.4
A Dirty Shame
2004
6.0
Ken Park
2003
6.8
Nola
2003
NR
Fan Mail
2003
8.6
The Wire
2002
6.8
The American Astronaut
2001
7.6
Ed
2000
7.6
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
7.9
Third Watch
1999
7.3
Law & Order
1990