James Cromwell
Acting · Born 1940-01-27 in 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…
Filmography
- Star Trek: First Contact as Dr. Zefram Cochrane
- The Green Mile as Warden Hal Moores
- The Queen as Prince Philip
- I, Robot as Dr. Alfred Lanning
- L.A. Confidential as Dudley Smith
- The People vs. Larry Flynt as Charles Keating
- Becoming Jane as Mr. Austen
- Murder by Death as Marcel Cassette
- Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron as The Colonel (voice)
- Secretariat as Ogden Phipps
TV
- Six Feet Under as George Sibley
- M*A*S*H
- American Horror Story as Dr. Arthur Arden
- Star Trek: The Next Generation as Prime Minister Nayrok
- Little House on the Prairie as Harve Miller
- The Twilight Zone as (segment "A Message From Charity")
- All in the Family as Stretch Cunningham
- Hill Street Blues
- Three's Company as Detective Lannigan
- 24 as Phillip Bauer