James Morrison (born James Paige Morrison on April 21, 1954 in Bountiful, Utah) and raised in Anchorage, Alaska is an American actor.
A professional theater actor, Morrison has been on the professional stage since the early 1980s and has won awards such as the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Performance. He has also directed theater productions.
His most recent role is that of Counter Terrorist Unit Director Bill Buchanan on 24. He began as a guest star mid-way through the fourth season (2005), and was a main cast member in the fifth and sixth seasons (2006 and 2007). He is also returning in the seventh season (2008)
On television, Morrison has guest starred in series such as Frasier, The X-Files, JAG, The West Wing and Six Feet Under.
Morrison frequently works with producers Glen Morgan and James Wong, and was a main cast member of their 1995 series Space: Above and Beyond. Another project in which he worked alongside James Wong was in the movie The One where Morrison played the role of hero Jet Li's best friend.
Morrison is also a published poet and a yoga teacher.
James Morrison AM (born 11 November 1962 in Boorowa, New South Wales) is an Australian jazz musician who plays numerous instruments, but is best known for his trumpet playing. He is a true multi-instrumentalist, capable of performing on the trombone, euphonium, flugelhorn, tuba, saxophone, and piano. He is also a composer, writing jazz charts for ensembles of various sizes and proficiency levels. He performed the opening fanfare at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, and is usually regarded as one of Australia's finest jazz musicians.
James Clark Morrison (born May 25, 1986 in Darlington, England) is a Scottish footballer, currently playing for West Bromwich Albion. His ability to run with the ball at pace makes him an effective option through the middle, as an attacking midfielder, or more often as a right winger.
James Morrison (born James Morrison Catchpole on 13 August 1984) is an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist born in Rugby, Warwickshire, England.
In 2006, he debuted with the single "You Give Me Something" which became a huge hit around Europe, Australia, and Japan. His debut album, Undiscovered, went straight to number one in the UK and has sold more than two million copies worldwide.
Morrison performed at the Concert for Diana on July 1, 2007. He performed the songs "Wonderful World" and "You Give Me Something" in honour of Princess Diana.
James Morrison (1760 - 1807) was a British seaman and mutineer who took part in the Mutiny on the Bounty.
James Morrison was a native of Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland where his father was a merchant and land entrepreneur. He joined the navy at 18, serving as Clerk on the Suffolk, Midshipman on the Termagant, and Acting Gunner on the Hind. In 1783, he passed his Master Gunner's examination.
James Morrison was the Boatswain's Mate on board the Bounty. The Master Gunner's position having been filled two days prior to his application, he may have taken the lesser post because of his eagerness to go along on the 'scientific expedition.'
After the mutiny, Morrison was one of 16 mutineers who returned to Tahiti after the failed attempt to build a colony on Tubuai, while Fletcher Christian and 8 others sailed the Bounty on to Pitcairn Island.
Along with the others who then lived in Tahiti, he was captured here by Captain Edward Edwards of Pandora on 29 March 1791, and brought back to England for court-martial.
While on Tahiti, he led an eight-month effort to build a schooner with which he secretly hoped to get to Batavia in the Dutch East Indies and from there return to England. He kept this to himself until the project was nearing completion, when he took a few others into his confidence. The schooner completed and christened Resolution, they spent many days boiling sea-water to get salt sufficient to cure hundreds of pounds of pork for which they in turn had to build casks. In the end the voyage was given up as impracticable owing to their lack of navigation instruments and any way to carry sufficient water. However when the Pandora departed with the mutineers, Captain Edward Edwards manned the schooner with some of his own men and took her along. The Pandora and the Resolution became separated, and Edwards, giving her and her crew up for lost, sailed on. The Pandora later came to grief on the Great Barrier Reef, and the surviving crew and prisoners had to use the ships boats to continue on. When they reached Samarang, Java, the Resolution and her crew were there waiting for them, having arrived six weeks earlier. Edwards eventually presented her as a gift to the governor at Batavia.
At the court-martial judgement, delivered on 18 September 1792, Morrison was sentenced to be hanged. However the court recommended his mercy to the King, and, perhaps aided by a letter testifying to his good character from Captain Stirling of the Termagant, he was pardoned on 26 October 1792, along with Peter Heywood. While incarcerated, Morrison wrote an account describing the Bounty's journey and the island and customs of Tahiti.
Following his pardon, Morrison returned to naval service. He reached the rank of Master Gunner, and saw action in the Mediterranean. After serving as a gunnery instructor in Plymouth, he joined Sir Thomas Troubridge in the Blenheim, which sank in 1807 off Madagascar with the loss of all on board.
Archbishop James Morrison (July 9 1861 - April 13 1950) was the longest-serving bishop of the Diocese of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. Although one of the last powerful and austere Roman Catholic bishops in Canada, Morrison presided over a diocese that created one of the most successful Catholic social movements in Canada.
Morrison strictly adhered to the statutes of the Roman Catholic faith. Extremely afraid of debt, he was cautious in all matters relating to the church. As Bishop of Antigonish he gained the ire of Rev. James Tompkins and other priests for refusing to allow St. Francis Xavier University to join a non-denominational university in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Although highly respected by the Catholic community, his cautious and frugal nature did not always foster tranquility.
James or Jim Morrison (3 May 1893 - 1947) was a traditional Irish musician known at the Professor who was a notable fiddle player in the "South Sligo style".
Morrison was born in 1893 near Riverstown, County Sligo at the townland of Drumfin. Morrison grew up in a community steeped in traditional Irish culture especially music and at the age of 17 he was employed by the Gaelic League to tutor the Connacht style of step dancing at the Gaelic League school in County Mayo.
In 1915, at the age of 21, emigrated to America and settled in New York. In 1918, Morrison won the fiddle competition at the New York Feis. Morrison become associated with other leading Irish musicians such as Michael Coleman, Paddy Killoran who were also from County Sligo.
Killoran, who was a former pupil of Morrison in Ballymote arrived in New York in 1920, then joined with Morrison and they formed an orchestra and played throughout the New York area, recording over 80 sides both as solo acts and with their orchestra. The highest profile orchestra which they organised was called The Pride of Erin Orchestra and they played on ships which sailed between Ireland and the United States in the 1930's.
James Morrison (1789 - 1857) was a British millionaire businessman and Member of Parliament.
The son of a Hampshire innkeeper, Morrison married into a London drapery business and quickly made it one of the most profitable in the World. He later established the US trading company, Morrison, Cryder & Co. He invested heavily in foreign railways and also in art. His art collection included works by Constable, Cuyp, Jan Steen, Murillo, Poussin, Rembrant and Rubens. In 1854, he bought the Isle of Islay for nearly half a million pounds. He lived at the Pavilion at Fonthill in Wiltshire before purchasing Basildon Park in Berkshire. He also entered politics and was MP for St Ives (1830), Ipswich (1832) and the Inverness Burghs (1840 - 1847).
Dr. James Morrison is a former head coach of the Notre Dame (1894), TCU (1898) and Virginia Tech (1899) college football program.
Born in Glasgow in 1932. Studied at Glasgow School of Art 1950-4. Morrison joined the staff at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee in 1965 when he also settled in Montrose.
He left Dundee College in 1987 to paint full-time. Whole-heartedly a landscape painter, his main working areas are the lush, highly-managed farmland around his home in Angus and the rugged wildness of west coast Assynt. The Royal family own several Morrison paintings.
