John James

John James Anderson is an American actor and producer best known to television audiences for playing the character of Jeff Colby in both the primetime soap opera Dynasty and its spinoff series The Colbys throughout the 1980s James is a veteran of daytime soaps first appearing in Search for Tomorrow in the late 1970s In 1981 he won the role of Jeff Colby in Dynasty appearing in the very first episode Oil and remaining on the soap opera until the final episode Catch 22 in 1989 James played the same role in The Colbys between 1985 and 1987 and one last time in the 1991 TV movie Dynasty The Reunion James was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his role in Dynasty in 1985 and appeared at the 1986 ceremony The Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor Series Miniseries or Television Film went to Edward James Olmos James returned to the genre playing Rick Decker on As the World Turns in 200304 In May 2006 he was cast in the role of Dr Jeff Martin the first husband of Erica Kane played by series star Susan Lucci on the ABC daytime soap opera All My Children He began airing the following month On July 15 2008 James returned to As the World Turns reprising the role of demented Dr Rick Decker In film James starred in Icebreaker with Sean Astin Bruce Campbell and Stacy Keach in The Cursed aka Peril with Morgan Fairchild and Michael Pare in Lightning Fire from the Sky with Jesse Eisenberg Stacy Keach and John Schneider and in Chronology with William Baldwin and Danny Trejo He produced and starred in Illegal Aliens All four movies were directed by David Giancola In 2012 James starred in the Giancola documentary Addicted to Fame 2012 about the making of their film Illegal Aliens Currently James is producing and starring in another Giancolas film the scifi action adventure Axcellerator This film reunites him with The Colbys costar Maxwell Caulfield while James daughter Laura plays one of the roles