James Rebhorn (born September 1, 1948) is one of America's most recognizable character actors who has appeared in over one hundred television shows, feature films, and plays.

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 1st, 1948, Rebhorn moved to Anderson, Indiana as a child. A devout Lutheran, he attended the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Wittenberg University in Springfield Ohio, where he studied political science. While there, he was a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. After graduating in 1970, Rebhorn moved to New York City, where he earned a Master's of Fine Arts in acting from Columbia University's School of the Arts and joined the metropolitan theater scene.

Rebhorn is best known for portraying lawyers, politicians, doctors, and military men, and often plays the bad guy. He has delivered equally notable performances in a variety of other roles, including that of a brutal serial killer on NBC's Law & Order and a shipping magnate in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999).

On televsion, he played several daytime roles, including abusive stepfather, Bradley Raines, on the soap opera Guiding Light from 1982 to 1984, and an

usive father, Henry Lange, on sister soap As The World Turns from 1988-91. His most recent role, in the short-lived and controversial NBC drama The Book of Daniel, cast him as the father of the title character, played by Aidan