James Patrick Pitt

Pitt debuted in Avatar as an astronaut who attempted to destroy the Tree of Souls with the space shuttle he commanded, Valkyrie 16, by delivering a payload of high explosives. Pitt also starred with Jim Hanks, brother of actor Tom Hanks, in There/Not There, a short film which was screened and well-received at Creative Artists Agency, in which he played a Marine who suffered a catastrophic brain injury by being shot in the head in the Battle of Fallujah. Vaudeville actor Jewel Pitts was his great uncle, and he is a descendant of Colonel Robert Pitt and Gervase De La Puette.