An American actor who was born in Los Angeles, California, on February 13, 1916 and died on September 17, 1993, in Avila Beach, California, of cancer. James was the perfect model for playing the roles of black evil in hundreds of films and television works, and very few comedies, during his four-decade artistic career, in which he presented 230 works. He is best known for his roles in: The Killing (1956), The Amazing Transparent Man (1960), and Mission: Impossible (1967).