James McLaughlin, (aka James W. MacLaughlin and J.W. McLaughlin) was an American film actor and director.

• The Girl from the East as Jim Brandon (1915)
• The Scrub as Dick Blackwood (1915)
• The Vagabond Prince as "Red" Kelly (1916)
• The Tar Heel Warrior as James Adams (1917)
• God's Gold as Corwin Carson (1921)
• Black Sheep as José (1921)
• Reputation as a Heavy man (stage sequence) (1921)
• South of Northern Lights as Caporal McAllister (1922)
• The Fighting Strain as Herbert Canfield (1923)
• Three Pals Wingate's Secretary (1926)

• Beyond the Shadows (1918)
• Hell's End (1918)
• Closin' In (1918)
• The Man Who Woke Up (1918)

• American Film Institute. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States Part 1, Volume 1. University of California Press, 1971.

• James McLaughlin at IMDb