Ryan James is an American screenwriter

Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

, actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

 and voice over artist.

Film & Commercial Acting

Since 2000, Ryan James has worked primarily from the Czech Republic and Germany.

He starred in two comedic commercial series for Skoda and Gametap

GameTap

GameTap is an American online video game service established by Turner Broadcasting System . Dubbed by TBS as a "first of its kind broadband gaming network", the service provides users with classic arcade video games and game-related video content...

, as well as TV and radio commercials dozens of other clients. He has also performed supporting roles in several feature films including The Illusionist, Shanghai Knights

Shanghai Knights

Shanghai Knights is a 2003 action-comedy film. It is the sequel to Shanghai Noon. It was directed by David Dobkin and written by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar.-Plot:...

, Running Scared

Running Scared (2006 film)

Running Scared is a 2006 crime film written and directed by Wayne Kramer and released by New Line Cinema. The film stars Paul Walker, Cameron Bright, Vera Farmiga, Chazz Palminteri, Alex Neuberger and Johnny Messner. It was released in the United States on February 24, 2006...

, Solomon Kane

Solomon Kane

Solomon Kane is a fictional character created by the pulp-era writer Robert E. Howard. A late 16th / early 17th century Puritan, Solomon Kane is a sombre-looking man who wanders the world with no apparent goal other than to vanquish evil in all its forms...

 and NBC's Revelations

Revelations (TV miniseries)

Revelations is a six episode television miniseries that began airing on April 13, 2005 on NBC. Taking place in the modern day, the show explores the End of Days as well as prophecies relating to them.-Synopsis:...

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Screenwriting

Initially working in 2004 as an in-house screenwriter for the straight-to-video production house North American Pictures, he advanced as a freelancer and has written several films including Jump!

Jump! (film)

Jump! is a 2007 British-Austrian drama film written and directed by Joshua Sinclair. It starred Ben Silverstone, Patrick Swayze and Martine McCutcheon. It was loosely based on the real-life Halsman murder case. The film was premiered on the 2009 Jewish Film Festival in June 2009...

, the true story of Philippe Halsman

Philippe Halsman

Philippe Halsman was an American portrait photographer.-Life and work:Born to a Jewish family of Morduch Halsman, a dentist, and Ita Grintuch, a grammar school principal, in Riga, Halsman studied electrical engineering in Dresden....

, who fell victim to the anti-Semitic courts of pre-WW2 Austria, but would eventually become one of the most famous photographers of his generation.

In 2010, James started Jumper Cable Films, a crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing is the act of sourcing tasks traditionally performed by specific individuals to a group of people or community through an open call....

 or grassroots-funded production company to launch its flagship film Onward, Amazing People!, a post-apocalyptic comedy.

Voice Overs

In addition to providing multiple character voices for several games developed by Bohemia Interactive like Operation Flashpoint

Operation Flashpoint

Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis, sometimes shortened to Operation Flashpoint, and abbreviated OFP, is a tactical shooter and battlefield simulator video game developed by Bohemia Interactive Studio and published by Codemasters. The game uses the same engine, Real Virtuality, as the military...

 and the widely-acclaimed Arma series (where his full body image was digitized to play the Sniper), he has worked for dozens of voice over studios. In 2009, he started his own studio, Pitch Perfect Studios, and in 2011 launched an audio book

Audio book

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 business, World Classic Audiobooks, that produces literature in the public domain

Public domain

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In May 2011, he launched The Laughing Bible and its sister project Atheist Audio Bible, an online audio book version of the King James bible presented as a work of literature read by an atheist. Unashamed and provocative, the sites offer atheists access to the bible free from Christian proselytism, and promotes free and respectful debate between believers, atheists and those who are still undecided about the Existence of God

Existence of God

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Film & TV Miniseries

Napoleon

Napoléon (miniseries)

Napoleon is a historical miniseries which explored the life of Napoleon Bonaparte. In 2002, it was the most expensive television miniseries in Europe, costing the equivalent of $US46,330,000 to produce. The miniseries covered Napoleon's military successes and failures, including the Battles of...

 (2002)

Doctor Zhivago (TV serial)

Doctor Zhivago (TV serial)

Doctor Zhivago is a 2002 British television serial directed by Giacomo Campiotti and starring Keira Knightley and Sam Neill. The teleplay by Andrew Davies is based on the 1957 novel of the same title by Boris Pasternak....

 (2002)

Shanghai Knights

Shanghai Knights

Shanghai Knights is a 2003 action-comedy film. It is the sequel to Shanghai Noon. It was directed by David Dobkin and written by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar.-Plot:...

(2003)