LL Cool J LL Cool J James Todd Smith (born January 14, 1968), known professionally as LL Cool J (short for Ladies Love Cool James), is an American hip hop recording artist, record producer, actor, author and entrepreneur from Queens, New York. He is known for such hip hop hits as "Going Back to Cali", "I'm Bad", "The Boomin' System", "Rock the Bells" and "Mama Said Knock You Out", as well as romantic ballads such as "Doin' It", "I Need Love", "All I Have", "Around the Way Girl" and "Hey Lover". A two-time Grammy Award winner, LL Cool J has released 13 studio
Anthony James (actor) award-winning films for Best Picture. He has since concentrated on painting. In 1994, he published a book of art and poetry, "Language of the Heart". His autobiography, "Acting My Face", was published in 2014. Anthony James (actor) Anthony James (born James Anthony, July 22, 1942) is an American character actor who specialized in playing creepy, sleazy, oily villains in films and television, many of them Westerns. James was born James Anthony in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina in 1942, the only child of Greek immigrants George Anthony (1893–1951) and Marika Palla (1913–2008). He later reversed the order of his given name