James Cromwell

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1940-01-27 (85 years old)

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

James Cromwell

Biography

James Oliver Cromwell (born January 27, 1940) is an American film and television actor. He is best known for his role as Dr. Zefram Cochrane in “Star Trek: First Contact,” as well as his roles in “Babe,” “L.A. Confidential,” and “Spider-Man 3.” He has been nominated for an Oscar, three Emmy Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards during his career. Cromwell was born in Los Angeles, California and was raised in Manhattan, New York. He was adopted by actress Kay Johnson and actor, director and producer John Cromwell, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. He was educated at The Hill School, Middlebury College and Carnegie Institute o...

Acting

1996

Star Trek: First Contact

as Dr. Zefram Cochrane

1999

The Green Mile

as Warden Hal Moores

2006

The Queen

as Philip of Edinburgh

2007

Spider-Man 3

as Captain Stacy

2004

I, Robot

as Dr. Alfred Lanning

1997

L.A. Confidential

as Dudley Smith

1996

The People vs. Larry Flynt

as Charles Keating

2008

W.

as George H.W. Bush

1998

Species II

as Senator Ross

1999

Snow Falling on Cedars

as Judge Fielding

1999

The General's Daughter

as General Joseph Campbell

1999

The Bachelor

as Priest

2007

Becoming Jane

as Mr. Austen

2002

The Sum of All Fears

as President Fowler

2000

Space Cowboys

as Bob Gerson

1984

Tank

as Deputy Euclid

2000

Fail Safe

as Gordon Knapp

1976

Murder by Death

as Marcel Cassette

1998

Deep Impact

as Alan Rittenhouse

2002

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron

as The Colonel (voice)

1998

Babe: Pig in the City

as Farmer Arthur Hoggett

1996

Eraser

as William Donohue

2005

The Longest Yard

as Warden Hazen

1978

1995

Babe

as Farmer Hoggett

1985

Explorers

as Mr. Müller

2008

Tortured

as Jack

1988

The Rescue

as Adm. Rothman

1984

Revenge of the Nerds

as Mr. Skolnick

2003

The Snow Walker

as Walter "Shep" Shepherd

1999

A Slight Case of Murder

as John Edgarson

1992

The Babe

as Brother Mathias

2003

Blackball

as Ray Speight

1980

A Christmas Without Snow

as Reverend Lohman

2006

Avenger

as Paul Devereaux

2010

Secretariat

as Ogden Phipps

2002

RFK

as President Lyndon Baines Johnson

2009

A Lonely Place for Dying

as Howard Simons

2000

RKO 281

as William Randolph Hearst

2009

Surrogates

as Dr. Lionel Canter

2010

Pope Pius XII

as Pope Pius XII

2014

In Between Songs

as Narrator

2002

2011

The Artist

as Clifton

1984

The House of God

as Officer Quick

2012

Cowgirls n' Angels

as Terence Parker

2011

Memorial Day

as Bud Vogel

2011

Hide Away

as The Ancient Mariner

2012

2012

Still Mine

as Craig Morrison

1981

Nobody's Perfekt

as Dr. Carson

1977

The Girl in the Empty Grave

as Deputy Malcolm Rossiter Jr.

1994

The Shaggy Dog

as Charlie Mulvihill

1998

Owd Bob

as Adam MacAdam

2013

The Trials of Cate McCall

as Justice Sumpter

2023

Merry Little Batman

as Alfred Pennyworth (voice)

1990

Miracle Landing

as B.J. Cocker

2014

Big Hero 6

as Professor Robert Callaghan (voice)

1986

The Last Precinct

as Chief Bludhorn

1977

Deadly Game

as Deputy Malcom Rossiter Jr.

2014

2016

The Promise

as Henry Morgenthau Sr.

-

Get Lost

as Frederick (Red King)

1995

1982

Barefoot In the Park

as Harry Pepper

2019

The Immortal

as Grandfather

1988

China Beach: Pilot

as Ambassador at Large Roland Weymouth

2017

Marshall

as The Judge

1955

Daddy Long Legs

as Extra (uncredited)

-

Night Vet

as Dr. Abel Evergood

2016

The Perfect Crime: Leopold & Loeb

as Self - Narrator (voice)

1982

The Rainmaker

as Noah Curry

2011

Farm to Fridge

as Narrator

2018

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

as Benjamin Lockwood

1978

Peeping Times

as Bernard Mantee

2002

2019

The Laundromat

as Joseph David Martin

2007

Dante's Inferno

as Virgil (voice)

1989

The Runnin' Kind

as Uncle Phil

2009

Beyond All Boundaries

as Major General Alexander A. Vandegrift / Fleet Admiral William Halsey

1989

Pink Cadillac

as Motel Desk Clerk

2020

Emperor

as John Brown

2020

Never Too Late

as Jack Bronson

2000

1986

A Fine Mess

as Detective Blist

2007

1982

The Wall

as Francisek

2003

A Carol Christmas

as Ghost of Christmas Future (uncredited)

1984

1984

Spraggue

as Lt. George Hurley

2024

Rebel Ridge

as Judge

2002

The Magnificent Ambersons

as Major Amberson

2011

Admissions

as The Clerk

Production

2021

Mondo Hollywoodland

as Executive Producer

2015

Imminent Threat

as Executive Producer

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