That was James Remar, and there's a large number of reasons why you might recognize him.

He's been a supporting actor in TV and film for 35 years, having debuted in the forgotten 1978 film "On the Yard."

These days people know him best as Dexter's adoptive father, Harry, on the long-running Showtime hit "Dexter."

On film it's hard to say what his biggest role has been -- he's played an assortment of cops and bad guys in 67 different films so far.

He started fairly strongly -- he had a prominent role in the cultishly beloved "The Warriors" in 1979 in just his third screen role. He also played the central villain in the hit 1982 comedy "48 Hrs." opposite Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy's good guys.

His next role was also a notable one -- he played real-life gangster Dutch Schultz in Francis Ford Coppola's expensive but unsuccessful drama "The Cotton Club" in 1984.

Remar failed to deliver on this early promise, though, and his career has settled into a long run of medium-sized roles in medium-sized pictures  — "Boys on the Side" (1995), "2 Fast 2 Furious" (2003) — and, occasionally, big roles in small pictures (he played the lead in the forgotten 2009 sci-fi flick "2B").

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