The James Morrison Story

This week’s guest the legendary James Paige Morrison is an American Actor, writer, filmmaker, musician best known for his portrayal of CTU Director Bill Buchanan on 24 and shows such as Space Above and Beyond, SVU Law and Order, Twin Peaks, and over 108 film and television projects to date.

In this week’s episode, James sits down in the Hot Topics Chair and joins Actor Producer and Host of Hot Topics Celeb TV D-Teflon in Conversation to talk about his iconic career his time working on 24 and learn some things you never knew about James and get to know more behind the man with the Golden Voice.

Morrison was born in Bountiful, Utah, the son of an office manager, and was raised in Anchorage, Alaska. A professional theater actor, Morrison has been on the professional stage since the early 1980s and has won awards such as the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Performance. He has also directed theater productions. Morrison is a published poet, yoga teacher, and singer-songwriter. He has composed two albums to date, which can be heard and purchased on his official website.

On television, Morrison has guest-starred in series such as Frasier, Quantum Leap, The X-Files, JAG, Murder, She Wrote, The West Wing, and Six Feet Under. Morrison frequently works with producers Glen Morgan and James Wong and was a main cast member of their 1995 series Space: Above and Beyond. He also worked with Wong in the movie The One as hero Jet Li’s best friend.

He portrayed Counter Terrorist Unit Director Bill Buchanan on 24. He began as a guest star midway through the fourth season (2005), and was a main cast member in the fifth, sixth, and seventh seasons (2006, 2007, 2009).

Morrison and his wife Riad Galayini co-directed and produced the feature documentary Showing Up. In this unprecedented look at the audition, some of our most accomplished working actors reflect on the process and how it affects them. The documentary compiled more than 50 interviews with notable artists including Kristin Chenoweth, Richard Griffiths, Zoe Kazan, Nathan Lane, Chris Messina, Sam Rockwell, Bill Irwin, and Eli Wallach.

Learn more about James at http://www.jpmorrison.com

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