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Name
James Cromwell

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1940-01-27 (86 years old)

Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA

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 of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), where he studied engineering. Like both his parents, he was drawn to the theater, doing everything from Shakespeare to experimental plays.

He has long been an advocate of leftist causes. In an October 2008 interview, he strongly attacked the Republican Party and the George W. Bush administration, saying their controversial foreign policy would "either destroy us or the entire planet." He became a vegetarian in 1974 after seeing a stockyard in Texas and experiencing the "smell, terror and anxiety." He became an ethical vegan while playing the character of Farmer Hoggett in the movie Babe in 1995. He frequently speaks out on issues regarding animal cruelty for PETA, largely the treatment of pigs.

Cromwell was married to Anne Ulvestad from 1976 to 1986. They had three children. He married his second wife, Julie Cobb, on May 29, 1986.

Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

1996 Star Trek: First Contact as Dr. Zefram Cochrane
1999 The Green Mile as Warden Hal Moores
2006 The Queen as Prince Philip
2007 Spider-Man 3 as Captain Stacy
2004 I, Robot as Dr. Alfred Lanning
1993 Romeo Is Bleeding as Cage
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
1994 Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love as Mr. Skolnick
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
2004 Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde as Self
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 The Cheap Detective as Schnell
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
2005 Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy as Narrator
1997 The Education of Little Tree as Nonno
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
1999 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 Project Viper as MP 1
2011 The Artist as Clifton
1984 The House of God as Officer Quick
2009 The Last Days of Lehman Brothers as Hank Paulson
2012 Cowgirls n' Angels as Terence Parker
2011 Memorial Day as Bud Vogel
2011 Hide Away as The Ancient Mariner
2012 Soldiers of Fortune as Haussman
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
2009 Starz Inside - Unforgettably Evil as Self
1998 Owd Bob as Adam MacAdam
2013 The Trials of Cate McCall as Justice Sumpter
2023 Merry Little Batman as Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
2019 Countdown to Year Zero
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 Malcolm Rossiter Jr.
1992 Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation as Mr. Skolnick
2022 Prancer: A Christmas Tale as Bud
2014 Walking the Mile as Self
2016 The Promise as Henry Morgenthau Sr.
Soon Get Lost as Frederick (Red King)
1995 Indictment: The McMartin Trial as Judge Pounders
1987 Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise as Mr. Skolnick
1982 Barefoot In the Park as Harry Pepper
2016 50 Years of Star Trek as Self
2019 The Immortal as Grandfather
1988 China Beach: Pilot as Ambassador at Large Roland Weymouth
2017 Marshall as The Judge
1983 The Man with Two Brains as Realtor
Soon 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
2006 King Leopold's Ghost
1978 Peeping Times as Bernard Mantee
2002 A Death in the Family as Joel Lynch
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
2012 A Night at the Movies: Hollywood Goes to Washington as Self - Interviewee
2006 The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird as Self
1989 Pink Cadillac as Motel Desk Clerk
2020 Emperor as John Brown
2020 Never Too Late as Jack Bronson
2000 Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile as Self / Warden Hal Moores
2012 The Artist: The Making of an American Romance as Self
2012 Hollywood as Character: The Locations of The Artist as Himself
1986 A Fine Mess as Detective Blist
2007 Looking For Else as Self
1982 The Wall as Francisek
2012 La Classe américaine as Self
2003 A Carol Christmas as Ghost of Christmas Future (uncredited)
1984 Oh, God! You Devil as Priest
2003 The John Garfield Story as Self
1984 Spraggue as Lt. George Hurley
2019 That Guy... Who Was In That Thing 3: Trek Stars as Self
2024 Rebel Ridge as Judge
2008 Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential' as Self
2002 The Magnificent Ambersons as Major Amberson
2011 Admissions as The Clerk
2007 The Making of 'The Queen' as Self
2026 Living With A Visionary as Narrator (voice)
2014 Star Trek: Enterprise - In a Mirror, Darkly as Zefram Cochrane (archive footage)
2013 Star Trek: Enterprise - Broken Bow as Dr. Zefram Cochrane (uncredited)

1982 Family Ties ( 1 episode ) as John Hancock
1976 Alice ( 1 episode )
1984 Night Court ( 1 episode ) as Alan
2001 Six Feet Under ( 27 episodes ) as George Sibley
1990 American Dreamer ( 1 episode )
1972 M*A*S*H ( 1 episode )
2011 American Horror Story ( 13 episodes ) as Dr. Arthur Arden
1980 Flo ( 1 episode )
1987 Star Trek: The Next Generation ( 1 episode ) as Prime Minister Nayrok
1991 Home Improvement ( 1 episode ) as Fred
1974 Little House on the Prairie ( 2 episodes ) as Harve Miller
1986 Matlock ( 2 episodes ) as Judge Raymond Price
1988 China Beach ( 2 episodes )
1985 The Twilight Zone ( 1 episode ) as (segment "A Message From Charity")
1971 All in the Family ( 3 episodes ) as Stretch Cunningham
1982 Knight Rider ( 1 episode ) as Curtis
1978 Diff'rent Strokes ( 1 episode )
1975 Barney Miller ( 1 episode ) as Sgt. Wilkinson
1981 Hill Street Blues ( 1 episode )
1983 Scarecrow and Mrs. King ( 2 episodes )
1977 Three's Company ( 1 episode ) as Detective Lannigan
1976 All's Fair ( 1 episode )
1987 Jake and the Fatman ( 1 episode )
1977 Eight Is Enough ( 1 episode )
1984 Hunter ( 1 episode ) as Seymour Robbins
1978 Dallas ( 3 episodes ) as Gerald Kane
1975 Hot l Baltimore ( 13 episodes )
1976 The Nancy Walker Show ( 12 episodes ) as Glen
1978 The White Shadow ( 1 episode ) as Mr. Hamilton
1973 Police Story ( 1 episode )
1995 Partners ( 2 episodes )
2001 Citizen Baines ( 9 episodes ) as Elliott Baines
1975 Barbary Coast ( 1 episode ) as Roy
1981 Foul Play ( 1 episode ) as Bebet
1985 Wildside ( 1 episode )
1999 The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
1986 Easy Street ( 22 episodes )
2009 Impact ( 2 episodes ) as Lloyd
2001 24 ( 8 episodes ) as Phillip Bauer
1985 Amazing Stories ( 1 episode ) as Francis
1995 The Client ( 1 episode ) as Officer Joe Denton
1994 ER ( 4 episodes ) as Bishop Stewart
2021 Law & Order: Organized Crime ( 2 episodes ) as Miles Darman
2016 The Young Pope ( 10 episodes ) as Cardinal Michael Spencer
2016 The Detour ( 3 episodes ) as J.R.
1976 Once an Eagle ( 7 episodes ) as J.L. Cleghorne
1999 The West Wing ( 1 episode ) as President D. Wire Newman
2005 Pope John Paul II ( 2 episodes ) as Cardinal Adam Sapieha
2004 Salem's Lot ( 2 episodes ) as Donald Callahan
1974 The Rockford Files ( 1 episode ) as Terry
1987 Star Trek: The Next Generation ( 2 episodes ) as Jaglom Shrek
2020 Star Trek: Lower Decks ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Zefram Cochrane (voice)
2017 Counterpart ( 10 episodes ) as Yanek
2008 My Own Worst Enemy ( 6 episodes ) as Alistair Trumbull
2024 Sugar ( 9 episodes ) as Jonathan Siegel
1993 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ( 1 episode ) as Hanok
2014 Halt and Catch Fire ( 8 episodes ) as Jacob Wheeler
2019 The Family ( 5 episodes ) as Douglas Coe
1978 The White Shadow ( 1 episode ) as Art Commings
2018 Succession ( 7 episodes ) as Ewan Roy
1975 Barney Miller ( 1 episode ) as Neil Spencer
1975 Barney Miller ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Edmund Danworth
2016 Berlin Station ( 1 episode ) as Gilbert Dorn
2020 Operation Buffalo ( 6 episodes ) as Cranky
1975 Barney Miller ( 1 episode ) as Jason Parrish
2014 Murder in the First ( 1 episode ) as Warren Daniels
2010 Boardwalk Empire ( 1 episode ) as Andrew W. Mellon
2024 Murder in a Small Town ( 1 episode ) as George Wilcox
1944 Golden Globe Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Audience Member
1989 Christine Cromwell ( 1 episode )
2010 Sotto il cielo di Roma ( 2 episodes ) as Pope Pius XII
2025 BAT-FAM ( 10 episodes ) as Alfred Thaddeus Crane Pennyworth (voice)
1992 Picket Fences ( 1 episode ) as The Bishop
1976 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman ( 5 episodes ) as Reverend Buryfield
2001 Star Trek: Enterprise ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Zefram Cochran (uncredited)
2003 Angels in America ( 4 episodes ) as Roy's Doctor

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