‘Max Payne’ and ‘Alan Wake 2’ voice actor James McCaffrey dies at 65

Actor James McCaffrey, who voiced Max Payne in the popular video game series and most recently voiced Alex Casey in “Alan Wake 2,” died Sunday after a battle with cancer, his manager confirmed to Variety. He was 65 years old.

According to TMZ, which first reported the news, McCaffrey was diagnosed with multiple myeloma.

Prior to his video game voice-over career, McCaffrey worked as a film and TV actor for more than 30 years. His early roles date back to the late ’80s and early ’90s; His breakout project was Fox’s police drama “New York Undercover.” He reprized his role as Captain Arthur O’Byrne in Season 3. She later starred in the NBC action series “Viper,” which ran for one season in 1994 and returned for Season 4 when it was revived a few years later. Later.

McCaffrey had her biggest role in FX’s “Rescue Me” in 2004. He played firefighter James Xavier “Jimmy” Keefe, who died on September 11 and was the best friend and cousin of Denis Leary’s main character, Tommy Gavin. He appeared as a main character in the first three seasons and appeared as a recurring player in the last four seasons. McCaffrey has also appeared on shows such as “Sex and the City”, “Suits”, “Blue Bloods”, “As the World Turns”, “Beautiful People”, “She’s Gotta Have It”, “Jessica Jones” and “The World”. He starred in movies. Orphan Killer, “Camp Hope”, “Pardon Me for Living” and many more.

Video game fans knew McCaffrey’s voice as Max Payne, the gruff antihero of the popular third-person shooter series. He voiced Max in all of the character’s incarnations: the original video game “Max Pane” in 2001, its sequel “Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne” (2003), and the final installment “Max Payne 3” (2012). McCaffrey also provided the motion capture. Created by Remedy Entertainment, the series was famous for its “bullet time” sequences and slow-motion, “Matrix”-like shootouts. Mark Wahlberg starred in the 2008 film adaptation, which also starred McCaffrey.

McCaffrey voiced FBI agent Alex Casey in the original “Alan Wake” game in 2010 and most recently in this year’s sequel “Alan Wake 2,” which won best narrative, art direction and game direction at this month’s Game Awards. McCaffrey also appeared in the films “Control” (2019) and “Alone in the Dark” (2008).

He is survived by his wife Rochelle Bostrom and daughter Tiernan McCaffrey.