David James (actor, born 1972) third year of working with the students, who presented a remake of a scene from "The Godfather". David James (actor, born 1972) David James (born 28 October 1972) is a South African film, theatre, and television actor known mainly for playing the villainous Koobus Venter in the 2009 Oscar-nominated science fiction film "". He is also known to South African audiences for his 2004-2006 appearance as "Mad Dog" on the long-running soap opera "Isidingo", for his portrayal as Joel Joffe in the large-scale and well-received 2010 and 2011 stage productions of "Rivonia Trial", and for his current role as radio
James Bate (actor) James Bate (actor) James Bate (10 April 1945 — 19 May 1992) was a British actor of television, film and stage, who was best known for playing David Allman in the ITV crime thriller series "Sleuth". Bate was born into a working class family, Bate was raised along with his brothers in a two-bedroomed apartment in the London Borough of Islington by his father who was a steel worker and his mother who was a midwife. James was his stage name. He was named Anthony and chose the acting name of James as there was another actor called Anthony Bate.