James Pickens, Jr. (born October 26, 1954) is an American actor. He is best known for his starring role as Dr. Richard Webber on the ABC drama television series Grey's Anatomy, and for his supporting role as Deputy Director Alvin Kersh on later seasons of the Fox Network science fiction series The X-Files.

KNOWN FOR

Grey's Anatomy
2005
Saturday Night Live
1983
The View
2007
CSI: Miami
2003
JAG
1999
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2006
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2024
The X-Files
1998
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
2007
The West Wing
2004
Seinfeld
1998
Yellowstone
2018

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
83
Producing
1
2024
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder
as Charles (voice)
2021
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
as Self - Contestant
2020
Station 19
as Dr. Richard Webber
2018
The Conners
as Chuck Mitchell
2018
Celebrity Family Feud
as Self
2018
Yellowstone
as Old Cowboy
2018
Grey's Anatomy: B-Team
as Richard Webber
2015
For the Love of Ruth
2015
The Real
2013
42
as Mr. Brock
2012
8
as Gary Segura
2010
Just Wright
as Lloyd Wright
2007
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
2007
Private Practice
as Dr. Richard Webber
2007
The View
as Self
2006
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2005
Venom
as Sheriff
2005
Grey's Anatomy
as Richard Webber
2005
Curb Your Enthusiasm
as Doctor
2004
The West Wing
as Mayor
2003
White Rush
as Denny
2003
The Lyon's Den
as Terrence Christianson
2003
CSI: Miami
as Prison Warden
2002
Home Room
as Principal Robbins
2002
Red Dragon
as Male Zoo Doctor (uncredited)
2002
Six Feet Under
as Roderick Charles
2002
Crossing Jordan
as Agent Hawkins
2002
Becker
as Cliff
2002
MDs
2002
Strong Medicine
as Dr. Everett Sloane
2000
Traffic
as Prosecutor Ben Williams
2000
The District
as Mr. Lane
2000
Family Law
2000
Daddio
as Doug Grayson
1999
Liberty Heights
as Sylvia's Father
1999
A Slight Case of Murder
as Detective Larry Gray
1999
JAG
as Wallace Burke
1998
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
as Walter Payne
1998
Little Girl Fly Away
as Detective Walter Engelhart
1998
Sphere
as O.S.S.A. Instructor
1998
Bulworth
as Uncle David
1998
Seinfeld
as Det. Hudson
1998
The Pretender
as Clark Thomas
1998
The X-Files
as Alvin Kersh
1998
Any Day Now
1998
The X-Files
as Alvin Kersh / Jamaican Crewman
1997
RocketMan
as Ben Stevens
1997
Gridlock'd
as Supervisor
1997
Walker, Texas Ranger
as Staff Sergeant Luther Parrish
1997
The Practice
as Mike McKrew
1997
Brooklyn South
as Reggie Simpson
1996
The Uninvited
as Stan Comelson
1996
Bloodhounds
as Agent John DeGraf
1996
Sleepers
as Marlboro
1996
Ghosts of Mississippi
as Medgar Evers
1996
Power 98
as Det. Wilkinson
1996
Dangerous Minds
1996
One West Waikiki
1995
Sharon's Secret
as Ashmore
1995
Trial by Fire
1995
Nixon
as Black Orator
1995
Dead Presidents
as Mr. Curtis
1995
Touched by an Angel
as George
1994
Jimmy Hollywood
as Cook
1994
A Child's Cry for Help
as Brad Currie
1994
Lily in Winter
as Chick
1994
Sodbusters
as Isaac
1994
Coach
as Rick Williams
1994
Renegade
as Lieutenant Pete Calloway
1993
Boiling Point
as Prison Officer
1993
Menace II Society
as Man #2
1993
Murder, She Wrote
as Sonny Greene
1992
Trespass
as Police Officer Reese
1992
Exclusive
as Jonathan Heglin
1992
L.A. Law
as Joseph Russell
1992
Doogie Howser, M.D.
as Bert
1991
Beverly Hills, 90210
as Henry Thomas
1990
Roseanne
as Chuck Mitchell
1987
Hotshot
1984
Saturday Night Live
as Texxon commercial guy (uncredited)
1983
Saturday Night Live
as Unemployed Vietnam veteran in Texxon Oil commercial (uncredited)
1965
Another World