James Orr (filmmaker)

James Joseph Orr
Born	1953 Noranda, Quebec
Nationality	Canadian
Occupation	director writer editor producer

James Joseph Orr (born 1953) is a Canadian writer, director and producer of motion pictures. Orr's screenplay credits include Three Men and a Baby, Tough Guys and Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, whilst his director credits include Mr. Destiny and Man of the House.

Born in Noranda, Quebec in 1953, he grew up in Toronto, Ontario. He attended the Carleton School of Journalism at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, where he became the editor of The Charlatan student newspaper during the 1973-1974 term. Orr then went to the undergraduate film school at York University in Toronto, and in 1977 he became the first Canadian to be accepted as a Director Fellow in the AFI Conservatory of the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.

In the mid-1980s, Orr had a relationship with actress Jamie Rose. They married in 1986, but later divorced in 1988.

From 1997 to 1998, Orr had a relationship with actress Farrah Fawcett, who had co-starred with Chevy Chase and Jonathan Taylor Thomas in Man of the House, a film that he directed and wrote the screenplay for. The relationship ended when Orr was charged with and later convicted of misdemeanor battery arising from a 1998 fight between the two. At the sentencing hearing, the judge noted that "Ms. Fawcett precipitated the violence," and gave Orr the minimum sentence allowed by law.

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