Jim Moody

Jim Moody is an American character actor who has worked in film and television. He was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, and taught drama at New York's LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts, where Adrien Brody was among his students. His first feature role came in Fame (1980), as the drama teacher Mr. Farrell, and he went on to play the counselor Gene Daniels in Bad Boys (1983) and, the same year, Arnie in the comedy D.C. Cab. He was Leroy Greene Sr. in The Last Dragon (1985) and appeared in the drama The Best Man (1999). On television he guest starred in several episodes of Law & Order, playing a different character each time, and also in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Third Watch and New York Undercover. He has since worked as a private drama coach in New York.