Personal Info
Birth date
1955-05-18 (70 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
-
Also known as
James Gaynes
Jim Gaines
Biography
Actor.
Filmography
Apocalypse Now
8.271
Overview:
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.The Jail: The Women's Hell
7.939
Overview:
Three women are sent by steamboat to an undisclosed jungle prison called "The Home of Lost Souls". Here they experience the usual beatings, whippings, cat fights and humiliations. The butch warden has a deal on the side with a local pimp who forces them to dance in bikinis at a nightclub and sexually service the patrons. Tired of cages, rape, torture and rats, the girls kill the resident snitch and escape into the jungle.Faster
6.345
Overview:
After 10 years in prison, Driver is now a free man with a single focus - hunting down the people responsible for brutally murdering his brother.Robowar
4.415
Overview:
A group of commandos heads into the jungles of Venezuela on a highly classified mission and encounters a robotic killing machine.The Last Hunter
5.6
Overview:
During the Vietnam war, an American soldier gets trapped beind enemy lines. A squad of his buddies sets out to rescue him.Opposing Force
4.4
Overview:
A group of elite soldiers, including one woman, sign up for the ultimate training mission. The group parachutes onto a remote island, where their objective is to reach the safety zone before the "opposing force" captures them. Everything does not go as expected, and the training mission turns into the real thing.After Death
4.9
Overview:
A woman goes back to the island where her parents were killed. They had been working on a cure for cancer and accidentally raised the dead by angering a voodoo priest. With the woman is a group of mercenaries and they meet up with some other researchers. They raise the dead again and all hell breaks looseStrike Commando
4.719
Overview:
The sole survivor of a Vietnam mission is ordered by his commanding officer to photograph Soviets.Black Fire
6.6
Overview:
After suffering a concussion from a grenade blast in Vietnam, Sgt. Frank Johnson has been getting flashes of his childhood in which strangely he is a ninja. Because of this, he is given a codename: "Black Fire" by the US Army. He is sent to San Sebastian together with his buddy Sgt. Jim Anderson to work as U.S. military advisers. One night, Sgt. Johnson discovers Capt. Salcedo of the local corrupt army is trying to transport arms.Blood Ring 2
6
Overview:
Convicted for a crime he did not commit, kickboxer Max Rivers is sentenced to life imprisonment in Carcel de Cordoba, the world's most impenetrable prison. He discovers a corrupt regime run by the chief warden, who organizes high-stake fighting contests. When Rivers' appeal is quashed by a crooked judge, he finds himself forced to rely once again on his fighting instincts as he enters the ring in the prison.Dog Tags
5.2
Overview:
POW's rescued from tiger cages in Vietnam are brought into a secret mission by an Army Captain. However when the group finds a cache of gold, greed sets in and the mission goes awry.Ninja's Force
5
Overview:
After a dangerous top-secret formula is stolen, a government agent traces the thieves back to a mysterious island and a secret-society of Ninjas.Island of the Living Dead
5.7
Overview:
A group of treasure hunters got lost in a fog bank and in the morning they notice what appears to be a deserted island. The group goes on shore and sure enough there are zombies running around.Blood Debts
3.7
Overview:
It started with the rape of his daughter then the killing of her boyfriend. He takes the law "Death Wish" style into his own hands and has his revenge. Branded as a vicious killer by the underworld, the syndicate blackmails him into becoming their hitman. As he gets more and more tied up in the world of drugs, prostitution and death he decides he wants out. No one gets out of the syndicate alive. It then becomes a battle for survival, him against them in a desperate act of street warfare. His life is he prize.Blood Ring
3
Overview:
Max, a prize boxer who has developed a drinking habit after his girlfriend Susan left him, gets involved in dirty business once she asks him to help her find her missing husband.Bruce's Fists Of Vengeance
7
Overview:
To compete in his friend Peter's martial arts tournament, Jack flies into Manila from Hong Kong and brings along a book of secret Jeet Kune Do techniques that was entrusted to him by the late martial arts legend Bruce Lee. During the competition, Jack witnesses Peter's defeat at the hands and feet of his academy's rival master, Miguel. Peter gets the book from Jack, just as Miguel learns about its existence. Miguel sends his best fighters to seize the book. Instead, they kidnap Jack and Peter's girlfriend Miriam and hold them ransom in exchange for the book. Now, working commando, Peter uses the secrets of the book to free his woman and best friend.Isa Para sa Lahat, Lahat Para sa Isa
NYR
Overview:
A classic tale of revenge starring Fernando Poe Jr alongside his real-life brothers, Andy, Conrad, and Frederick Poe. Together, four brothers must put their differences aside and band together to avenge the brutal murder of their father by familiar enemies and finally put his memory to rest.Phantom Soldiers
7
Overview:
Texas Ranger Daniel Custer leaves for Vietnam to find his brother Michael, a Green Beret Lieutenant who has been reported missing in action. Michael's squad was searching for a mysterious group of 'phantom soldiers' that had been using US-made arms for massacring villages and killing unarmed civilians. Daniel goes out on his own into the jungles of Vietnam to find his brother and stop these killers.The One-Armed Executioner
6.4
Overview:
An Interpol agent is out for revenge against the gangsters that cut off his arm and killed his bride. This tragedy left him deeply depressed, and his battle with depression has to be won first before he can be thoroughly trained in martial arts. After his training, Ortega hunts down his adversaries for a final reckoning.Fireback
5.2
Overview:
Jack Kaplan is a US Army Soldier and Weapons Expert liberated by a "rescue team", he returns home to the United States only to find out that his wife Diane has been captured by infatuated gangster Duffy Collins. Kaplan embarks on a mission to find his wife, running into characters like Digger, Man With The Golden Hand, and the treacherous femme fatale Eve. He is a man on a mission.Fighting Spirit
5.857
Overview:
Billy is a young fighter whose sister Judith was hurt after a near gang rape. When he learns she must have surgery, crime boss Russell has Billy compete in illegal street fights. When Billy learns he may get killed, he quits but is later killed by Russell and his men, who were the ones responsible for Judith's accident. After his death, Billy must rely on one man to seek revenge for him: his best friend David. However, David must train in the martial arts before he can seek revenge. Davidy seeks guidance from the ghost of Billy as well as Billy's trainer and ally, Murphy.Blood Hands
3.7
Overview:
Steve, a young kickboxer, returns home to find his parents have been brutalized by a gang of martial artists. When the cops can't find any answers, Steve decides to kickbox his way to savage justice. No thug on the streets is safe!Eternal Fist
4.2
Overview:
In a post-apocalyptic world, a man helps a beautiful young girl get revenge against a roving gang of renegades that destroyed her village.Double Edge
3.5
Overview:
A boy sees his parents gunned by criminals due to unpaid debts. Twenty years later, the boy, Mark Quinn, has become a hard-hitting cop, the kind that hates criminal scum, bending the rules to catch those criminals and drive them to despair.Angel in the Dark
NYR
Overview:
Lyn becomes a prostitute to try and save enough money to get her daughter and eye operation to cure her from her blindness. She is beaten up by her pimp and that is when Michael, the kickboxer comes across her path after a bad fight. He rescues her and she takes him in and looks after him while he heals. In the process they begin to like each other and Michael is drawn to the mother and daughter as his own wife and child were murdered several years earlier by the bad guys. He decides to do one last kick boxing tournament to raise the money that Lyn needs to pay for the operation, but in the meantime the baddies want payback and kidnap the daughter.Zombies: The Beginning
3.737
Overview:
A woman floating on a raft in the middle of the Pacific. She was found by a rescue team and taken ashore. Once there, she tells a story of how she escaped from an island full of zombies. She was persuaded to lead a commando unit to the island to explore.The Last Reunion
4.9
Overview:
Several members of a platoon of American soldiers not only kill a Japanese general, but also rape and murder the man's wife. The couple's son, Kimon, witnesses these ghastly events and vows revenge. Thirty-three years later the platoon get back together in Manila for a reunion. The adult Kimon also shows up to pick off the platoon members who are responsible for butchering his parents.Acting
2012Pridyider as Police Chief
2010Faster as Inmate
2007Zombies: The Beginning as Giant Zombie
2007Island of the Living Dead as Snoopy
2006The Jail: The Women's Hell as The Governor
1993Enteng Manok: Tari Ng Quiapo as Unknown
1992Fighting Spirit as Unknown
1992Eternal Fist as Scudder
1991Blood Ring as Stevens (as James Gaines)
1991Angel in the Dark as Eddie
1990Crime Stopper as Unknown
1990After Death as Dan
1990Blood Hands as Walter (as James Gaines)
1990Escape to Nowhere as Unknown
1988Final Reprisal as Charles Murphy
1988Jungle Rats as Unknown
1988Cop Game as Ludge's Henchman
1988Robowar as Sonny Peel
1988The Secret of King Mahi's Island as Tony
1987Dog Tags as Pet (as Jaimes Gaines)
1987Strike Commando as Radek's Soldier
1987Movie in Action as Unknown
1987Phantom Soldiers as Unknown
1986Black Fire as Jim Anderson
1986Opposing Force as Guard
1986War Without End as Unknown
1985Blood Debts as Peter
1985Double Edge as Sly
1984Ninja's Force as Unknown
1984Heroes for Hire as Curly
1983The One-Armed Executioner as Unknown
1983Intrusion: Cambodia as Unknown
1983Fireback as Digger
1983Hunters Crossing as Unknown
1983Rescue Team as Harry Greene
1980Bruce's Fists Of Vengeance as James (as James Gaines)
1980The Last Hunter as U.S. deserter
1980Kalibre .45 as Unknown
1980The Quick Brown Fox as Unknown
1980The Last Reunion as Cpl. Washington
1979Apocalypse Now as Extra (uncredited)
1979Isa Para sa Lahat, Lahat Para sa Isa as Unknown
1974Chaku Master as Unknown
Writing
1995Blood Ring 2 ... Writer
1988Final Reprisal ... Screenplay, Story
1988Jungle Rats ... Writer
1987Phantom Soldiers ... Screenplay
1986Black Fire ... Story, Screenplay
1986War Without End ... Writer
1985Double Edge ... Writer
Directing
1988The Secret of King Mahi's Island ... Director