James Davies
Acting
Biography
James Davies is an actor, dancer, and singer from New Zealand. His career spans film, television, and theatre, with lead and supporting roles in Kaitangata Twitch (2009), Legend of the Seeker (2008), Inspector Lewis (2011), and the feature film Ablaze (2019). Stage and dance highlights include performing in the British premiere of Sweet Smell of Success in London and dancing in the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic Games. He is also known internationally for his role as Chase Randall, the Black Ranger, in Power Rangers Dino Charge (2014–2016) and for reprising the character in Power Rangers Beast Morphers (2020). James is the founder of Healthy Artists, an organisation dedicated to supporting creatives in developing both their craft and wellbeing.
Known For
A team of teenagers with attitude are recruited to save Angel Grove from the evil witch, Rita Repulsa, and later, Lord Zedd, Emperor of all he sees, and their horde of monsters.
Power Rangers
Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.
Lewis
The adventures of woodsman Richard Cypher, who discovers that he was born to fulfill a prophecy of becoming a guardian hero to oppressed people. With the help of a mysterious woman named Kahlan and a wise old wizard named Zedd, he must stop a ruthless and bloodthirsty tyrant from unleashing an ancient evil and enslaving the world.
Legend of the Seeker
Kaitangata Twitch is a children's adventure/fantasy series that aired on Maori TV in New Zealand in 2010. Based on the children's book of the same name, written by renouned New Zealand children's author, Margaret Mahy, it follows the adventures of thirteen year old Meredith, who can hear voices calling to her from a nearby island, Kaitangata, in the bay of her small hometown. A legend of pre-European New Zealand, the frequent rumblings of small earthquakes and the disappearance of a young Pakeha girl, fifty years earlier, all shroud the mystery surrounding the island.
Kaitangata Twitch
In November 1947 forty-one people died in a massive blaze that gutted the huge Ballantynes Department Store complex in the heart of Christchurch’s business district. This is the tragic story of New Zealand’s worst fire disaster.
Ablaze
After the murder of her uncle, activist Maori photographer Emma returns to New Zealand to claim her inheritance. There she has visions of a monster called Broken Beak, and as more family members die, she is compelled to vengeful action.