James Rolfe

James Rolfe is an American filmmaker, actor and YouTuber who began making homemade videos in the late 1980s and had made more than 270 projects by 2004. He grew up in southern New Jersey and studied filmmaking in Philadelphia at the University of the Arts. That year, the first episodes of his retro gaming comedy series Angry Video Game Nerd appeared on his Cinemassacre website; two years later the show went viral after it was posted to YouTube. The program, which he created and starred in, led to a feature-length film based on it in 2014 that received mixed reviews. His other web series include Monster Madness, a horror review program he has hosted since 2007, and Board James. He was announced to appear in the low-budget remake Plan 9 (2015). He has published the autobiography A Movie Making Nerd (2022) and the horror book Gnome Cave (2025), and he plays rhythm guitar in the cover band Rex Viper.