James Ransone
Ransone in 2010, photo by PrPhotos
Birth Name: James Finley Ransone III
Date of Birth: June 2, 1979
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Date of Death: December 19, 2025
Place of Death: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Ethnicity: English, German, Irish, one eighth Italian, distant Swedish and Scottish
James Ransone was an American actor and musician. Among his best known performances were the Sinister franchise, It Chapter Two, and The Black Phone. His roles also included the films The American Astronaut, Ken Park, Inside Man (2006), Prom Night (2008), The Next Three Days, The Son of No One, Red Hook Summer, Red Hook Summer, Broken City, Empire State, Oldboy (2013), Cymbeline, Kristy (2014), Tangerine, The Timber, Bloomin Mud Shuffle, Mr. Right (2015), In a Valley of Violence, Gemini (2017), Write When You Get Work, Family Blood, Captive State, What We Found, Small Engine Repair, and V/H/S/85; and the series The Wire, Generation Kill, How to Make It in America, Treme, Low Winter Sun, Bosch, Mosaic, The First, 50 States of Fright, and SEAL Team.
James was the son of Joyce and James Ransone II. He was married to Jamie McPhee, with whom he had two children.
James’s patrilineal ancestry can be traced to Peter Ransone, who was born, c. 1615, in England.
James’s paternal grandfather was James Finley/Finlay Ransone (the son of John Edward Bromwell Ransone and Mary Letisha/Latisha/Letita Price). James was born in Baltimore, Maryland. John was the son of Alexander Lawson Ransone, who had deep roots in the U.S.; and of Mary Wolferman, whose parents were from Hesse, Germany. James’s great-grandmother Mary was the daughter of Finley Fleetwood Price and Margaret Ellen “Maggie” Porter, and also had deep American roots.
James’s paternal grandmother was Mary Patricia Daniels (the daughter of Edward Patrick Daniels and Lillian Louise Born). Mary was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Edward was the son of Irish parents, William Daniels and Mary Elizabeth Malady. Lillian was the daughter of German parents, August Born and Caroline Amelia Heinzerling.
James’s maternal grandfather was Walter Preston/Kenneth “Jack” Peterson (the son of Walter Eli Peterson and Estella Kinzer). James’s grandfather Walter was born in Radford, Virginia, and had deep roots in the U.S. James’s great-grandfather Walter was the son of Doctor Radford Peterson and Annie Ellen Fisher. Estella was the daughter of Jasper Nicholas Kinzer and Emma/Emeline Virginia Hicks.
James’s maternal grandmother was Evelyn Vitocolonna/Vitocolona (the daughter of Armando Vitocolonna/Vitocolona and Emma Amelia Thune). Evelyn was born in Maryland. Armando was born in Chieti, Abruzzo, Italy, the son of Camillo Vitocolonna and Anna Silvani. Emma was born in Maryland, the daughter of German parents, Henry Thune and Minnie Koeszek, who may have had Slavic ancestry.
Sources: Genealogy of James Ransone – https://www.familysearch.org
Obituary of James’s maternal grandfather, Walter Preston/Kenneth “Jack” Peterson – http://articles.baltimoresun.com
James’s maternal great-grandparents, Armando Vitocolonna/Vitocolona and Emma A. Thune, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
James’s maternal great-grandmother, Emma Amelia Thune, on the 1900 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
James’s paternal grandfather was James Finley Ransone (the son of John Edward Bromwell Ransone and Mary Letisha Price). James was born in Baltimore, Maryland. John was the son of Alexander Lawson Ransone, who had deep lines in America, and Mary Wolferman, the daughter of German immigrants from Hesse. James’s great-grandmother Mary was the daughter of Finley Fleetwood Price and Margaret Ellen “Maggie” Porter, and had deep lines in America.
James’s paternal grandmother was Mary Patricia Daniels (the daughter of Patrick Edward Daniels and Lillian Louise Born). Mary was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Patrick was the son of Irish immigrants, William Daniels and Mary Elizabeth Malady. Lillian was the daughter of German immigrants, August Born and Caroline Amelia Heinzerling.
James’s maternal grandfather was Walter Preston/Kenneth “Jack” Peterson (the son of Walter Eli Peterson and Estella Kinzer). James’s grandfather Walter was born in Radford, Virginia, and had deep lines in America. James’s great-grandfather Walter was the son of Doctor Radford Peterson and Annie Ellen Fisher. Estella was the daughter of Jasper Nicholas Kinzer and Emeline Virginia Hicks.
James’s maternal grandmother was Evelyn Vitocolonna (the daughter of Armando Vitocolonna and Emma Amelia Thune). Evelyn was born in Maryland. Armando was born in Chieti, Abruzzo, Italy, the son of Camillo Vitocolonna and Anna Silvani. Emma was born in Maryland, the daughter of German parents, Henry Thune and Minnie Koeszek, who likely had Slavic ancestry.
https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/pedigree/landscape/P4X9-KQK
James’ ethnicity: English, German, 1/8 Irish, 1/8 Italian, likely some Slavic, distant Swedish and Scottish
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RIP
Btw kinda of a misleading picture, he was actually quite pale
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It’s only your belief not the truth you always try to color the Europeans. Here in Europe the huge majority of us Euros like to be all natural we aren’t obsessed with body manipulation not even to bleach our hair like the mutts from the New World Countries do.
I’m pointing out is that, since this is a site dedicated to uncover the heritage of famous people, the profile pictures should showcase them in their natural skin colour, hair, etc… For a more accurate and detailed profiling, James was quite tanned in that photo, also probably under some makeup, and the lighting is also manipulated.
He looked Hispanic not European because of his facial features not only because the skin color/tan.
In Murica is very common to pass off as white the Hispanics who despite aren’t feel and act like white supremacists and have burning hate towards some Southern Euros but never talk and accept their Spaniard settlers are half sandni**as and try to whitewashing them telling their nonexistent Germanic and Celtic identity which is real only in their colored inferior minds.
Like the user NOTREALLY a ultra nazi Sp!k who threw up nonstop his Sp!k brown nazism against specific Euro ethinicities who this ngro doesn’t like, always telling they’re “ngros”, said by him a colored lol, but never done it for his fricking fcking Spaniards a folk of muslim dwarfs, a lot talibans.