JAMES MCCARTHY - AGVA, - SAG-AFTRA Eligible

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  • Cowboys and Indians (Performance Video)  Quicktime

    My first Western and a terrific leading role as a card-sharking, gun-slinging, up-to-no-good baddie. The scenes I have excerpted here are from the several done at the card table over the course of my three day stay on set at the Whitehorse film ranch in Lander, CA.

  • The Carpenter: Part 1- And So They Die (Performance Video)  Quicktime

    A strong supporting role in a feature length horror/slasher film in which I play a literary agent coaxing his client into finishing his next book which, to everyone’s misfortune, is fast taking on a life of its own. This clip is culled from my final scene in the film where I meet my client, who has hit the skids and is living in his car, to deliver good news about his manuscript.

  • Sinnergy (Performance Video)  Quicktime

    A lead role in a neo-noir detective drama short. Good sequences of action and dark atmosphere. Much dialogue done in voiceover.

  • 3 Days in L.A. (Performance Video)  Quicktime

    A lead role in an ensemble-cast dramatic feature film. I play a college professor whose selfishness and vanity are ruining his family life. He’s drifting away from his wife and son and in way over his head in an affair with a pretty young co-ed who sends him straight onto the rocks with an infidelity of her own. “3 Days in L.A.” was an Official Selection at the 2010 Milan International Film Festival where it garnered three award nominations including Best Director for Marco Capalbo.

  • "The Ride Along" (Performance Video)  Quicktime

    A lead role in a smartly produced indie comic short. I play a goof of a bully of a boss who's got it all on the ball - or not - and is heading for a fall without a clue of what is coming. Chosen by the National Film Board of Canada for a theatrical screening at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival's Marche du Film. Also an Official Selection at the 55th International Short Film Festival at Oberhausen, Germany and winner of a Gold Kahuna at the 2009 Honolulu International Film Festival.

  • "Doing His Best James Dean" (Performance Video)  Quicktime

    A comic short for Time Warner's comedy outlet SuperDeluxe.com. I play a sadistic, insecure film producer (insert joke here) crossing swords with a time traveling James Dean. A strong supporting role.

  • "G.I. Jesus" (Performance Video)  Quicktime

    A mind-bending dramatic feature that won the Grand Jury Prize at CineVegas in 2006. My role is of a somewhat sinister psychiatric doctor consulting with the male lead on his wartime PTSD. A strong supporting role.

  • "The Cubicle" (Performance Video)  Quicktime

    Sit-com type office comedy based on whacky characters. Produced as a pilot. I play the strange and aloof boss who, among other things, looks every Wednesday to trade the eggsalad sandwich his wife invariably prepares for his lunch. A lead character in an ensemble.

  • "Hollywood Unscripted" (Performance Video)  Quicktime

    This is a one take, improvised scene of edgy comedy shot under the guise of an audition. Only later did we find out this was principal photography for the feature. All three minutes plus of the dialogue I improvised made the film's final cut. A strong supporting role.

  • "Guilty or Innocent?" #110 (Performance Video)  Quicktime

    A true crime recreation series where I play a by-the-book police detective. A solid cast and a strong hand at the helm directing. A supporting role.

  • "Beginning to End" (Performance Video)  Quicktime

    A horror short along the lines of "23" where the narrative of a man's life is overtaken by the events of a book he is reading. A chance to play a blank slate sort of character upon whom a terrible fate is imposed. The lead.

  • "The Double Coincidence of Wants" (Performance Video)  Quicktime

    A feature length dramedy set in a bookstore. I'm a frustrated writer hounded out of a teaching job for a sexual indiscretion with a student that wrecked his marriage. He's embittered and mostly just treading water. A lead character.

Résumé Print Résumé

FILM & TELEVISION (partial)

Kidnap & Rescue

Guest Star

T. Russell/Discovery Channel

When Aliens Attack

Lead

S. Georgalis/Nat Geo Channel

G.I. Jesus

Supporting

Carl Colpaert/Cineville

Guilty or Innocent? (#110)

Supporting

Kris Chan/Discovery Channel

Los Bastardos

Featured

Amat Escalante/Mantarraya

Three Days in L.A.

Lead

Marco Capalbo/Independant

Cowboys & Indians

Supporting

Burk Bros./Independant

The Ride Along

Lead

Ty McGee/Independant

The Dillinger Conspiracy

Supporting

Mike Ojeda/Discovery Channel

Who Flew?

Lead

Ryan Hurst/Tonic Films

His Very Best James Dean

Supporting

Bob Castrone/TBS OnDemand

The Carpenter: Part 1- And So They Die

Supporting

Jared Cohn/Independant

Sinnergy

Lead

Geoff Reisner/Independant

Hollywood Unscripted

Supporting

Hector Hernandez/Independant

Solace

Lead

Michaline Babich/Independant

Learning How to Speak

Supporting

Jon C. Stewart/Independant

Night Light

Lead

Mark Molenkamp/Independant

The Cubicle

Lead

Otto Penzatto/Independant

Between Friends

Lead

Allison Norris/Independant

Joy Town

Lead

Geoff Marks/Independant

The Double Coincidence of Wants

Lead

Scott Krause/Independant

STAGE

Richard III

Grey/Norfolk

Southwest Shakespeare Co.

The Comedy of Errors

Antipholus of Ephesus

Southwest Shakespeare Co.

Our Town

Simon Stimson

Southwest Shakespeare Co.

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Robin

Southwest Shakespeare Co.

King Ubu

Bordure

Arizona State University

Lemon Days

Orwell

Arizona State University

The Dolphin Position

Bohan

Arizona State University

Aurora Mime Theatre

company member

various AZ & Nat. venues

The Public Eye

Julian

U.C. Santa Barbara

Woyzeck

The Captain

U.C. Santa Barbara

Mimania

company member

U.C. Santa Barbara

And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little

Bob

U.C. Santa Barbara

Zoo Story

Jerry

U.C. Santa Barbara

Bad Habits

Otto

U.C. Santa Barbara

INDUSTRIAL FILM

A Mother's Story

Featured

Tom Rice

Operation Safeguard 7

Supporting

Kris Tabori/Pilgrim Operations

STUDENT FILM

Canned Ecology

Supporting

Elise Holowicki/Chapman

The Death of Abraham Lincoln

Lead

Seth Parker/LAFSC

The League

Supporting

Kyle Higgins/Chapman

Beginning to End

Lead

Sean Ware/CSUN

Sunset Boulevard (scene)

Lead

Rob Holland/UCLA

EDUCATION/TRAINING

B.A., Dramatic Arts

University of California

Santa Barbara, CA

Comedy Intensive

Scott Sedita Acting Studios

Los Angeles, CA

Comic Improv

The Groundlings, David John

Los Angeles, CA

Comic Improv

The Groundlings, Kevin Kirkpatrick

Los Angeles, CA

Auditioning for Television

AIA Studios, Gary Zuckerbrod

Los Angeles, CA

Audition Technique

Act Now, Brett Greenstein

Los Angeles, CA

Commercial Technique

Act Now, David Belantoni

Los Angeles, CA

Acting for Camera

Good Faith Casting/Faith Hibbs-Clark

Phoenix, AZ

Pantomime/Clown Theater

The Clown Theater Institute

Seattle, WA

Pantomime/Clown Theater

Estudio Busqueda de Pantomima Teatro

Guanajuato, Mexico

Acting, comedic and dramatic. Great with dialogue. Can improvise dialogue. Accents: French, New York, Irish, standard American. Extensive training in movement arts. Good body language communicator. Athletic and fit appearing with particular ability in soccer, baseball, tennis, and water sports including scuba, snorkel, swimming, ocean kayak, and body surfing. Target shooting training for handguns, shotguns, and rifles with LAPD officer. Motorcycle rider with M1 license from state of CA. Look good in a suit.

Physical Characteristics / Measurements

Height: 5'11"

Weight: 165 lbs

current passport, Baseball, Basketball, Body Surfing, Combat - Stage, Cycling - Mountain Biking, Frisbee, Golf, Hackey Sack, Kayaker, Motorcycle Riding - General, Mountain Climbing, Ping Pong, Scuba Diver, Scuba Diving, Shooting - Revolver/Automatic, Shooting - Rifle, Shooting - Skeet/Trap, Snorkeling, Soccer, Softball, Swimming - ability - general, Swimming - backstroke, Swimming - breast stroke, Swimming - butterfly, Swimming - freestyle, Tennis, Weight Lifting, Yoga, Firearms, Improvisation, Juggler, Licensed Driver, Motorcyclist, American - New York Accent, British - BBC English Accent, French Accent, Irish Accent