James Morrison

James Morrison is an American actor best known for playing CTU Director Bill Buchanan on 24. Born in Bountiful, Utah, and raised in Anchorage, Alaska, he began working in professional theater in the early 1980s and earned a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award. He has directed stage productions and appeared in many television series, such as Six Feet Under, The West Wing, and The X-Files. He was a main cast member on Space: Above and Beyond, a 1995 series from producers Glen Morgan and James Wong. In The One (2001), he played Jet Li's best friend while working with Wong. On 24, he started as a guest in the fourth season and became a main cast member for the fifth, sixth and seventh seasons. His plays Idle Wheels and Leave Your Fears Here were developed by the Sundance Institute and the Ojai Playwrights Conference. He co-directed and produced the documentary Showing Up.