James Ward Byrkit
James Ward Byrkit (also known as James Byrkit or Jim Byrkit) is an American film director, writer, and actor. He is best known for directing the science fiction thriller Coherence and co-writing the script for Rango, one of his many collaborations with Gore Verbinski. For Rango, Byrkit starred as several characters, most notably Waffles, a horned lizard. Byrkit also was the conceptual artist on the first three films of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise and designed some of the most iconic sequences of the series. Byrkit also directed the short film Tales of the Code: Wedlocked (2011), which serves as a prequel to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003).
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Rango
2011
Coherence
2014
Special Unit 2
2001
The Forest
2016
Pirates of the Caribbean: Tales of the Code: Wedlocked
2011
Shatter Belt
2023
De Novo
Fractalus
2005
Whiskers - A Christmas Short Film
2025
Real Creatures of Dirt
2011
The Fantastic Corpse
2013
Ideation
Breakneck
