Actor
James Cromwell
Biography

James Oliver Cromwell (born 27 January 1940) is an American film and television actor, probably best known for his role as Dr. Zefram Cochrane in Star Trek: First Contact. 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 ...

Known For
Acting
2024 -- Rebel Ridge | Judge
2023 -- Merry Little Batman | Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
2022 -- Prancer: A Christmas Tale | Bud
2020 -- Emperor | John Brown
2020 -- Never Too Late | Jack Bronson
2019 -- The Immortal | Grandfather
2019 -- The Laundromat | Joseph David Martin
2019 -- That Guy... Who Was In That Thing 3: Trek Stars | Self
2019 -- Countdown to Year Zero |
2018 -- Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom | Benjamin Lockwood
2017 -- Marshall | The Judge
2016 -- The Promise | Henry Morgenthau Sr.
2016 -- 50 Years of Star Trek | Self
2016 -- The Perfect Crime: Leopold & Loeb | Narrator
2014 -- Walking the Mile | Self
2014 -- Big Hero 6 | Professor Robert Callaghan (voice)
2014 -- In Between Songs | Narrator
2013 -- The Trials of Cate McCall | Justice Sumpter
2012 -- La Classe américaine | Self
2012 -- A Night at the Movies: Hollywood Goes to Washington | Self - Interviewee
2012 -- Still Mine | Craig Morrison
2012 -- Hollywood as Character: The Locations of The Artist | Himself
2012 -- The Artist: The Making of an American Romance | Self
2012 -- Soldiers of Fortune | Haussman
2012 -- Cowgirls n' Angels | Terence Parker
2011 -- Hide Away | The Ancient Mariner
2011 -- Admissions | The Clerk
2011 -- The Artist | Clifton
2011 -- Memorial Day | Bud Vogel
2011 -- Farm to Fridge | Narrator
2010 -- Pope Pius XII | Pope Pius XII
2010 -- Secretariat | Ogden Phipps
2009 -- Beyond All Boundaries | Major General Alexander A. Vandegrift / Fleet Admiral William Halsey
2009 -- Surrogates | Dr. Lionel Canter
2009 -- The Last Days of Lehman Brothers | Hank Paulson
2009 -- Starz Inside - Unforgettably Evil | Self
2009 -- A Lonely Place for Dying | Howard Simons
2008 -- W. | George H.W. Bush
2008 -- Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential' | Self
2008 -- Tortured | Jack
2007 -- Spider-Man 3 | Captain Stacey
2007 -- Becoming Jane | Mr. Austen
2007 -- Dante's Inferno | Virgil (voice)
2007 -- Looking For Else | Self
2006 -- The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird | Self
2006 -- The Queen | Philip of Edinburgh
2006 -- King Leopold's Ghost |
2006 -- Avenger | Paul Devereaux
2005 -- Pope John Paul II | Card. Adam Sapieha
2005 -- Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy | Narrator
2005 -- The Longest Yard | Warden Hazen
2004 -- Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde | Self
2004 -- I, Robot | Dr. Alfred Lanning
2003 -- A Carol Christmas | Ghost of Christmas Future (uncredited)
2003 -- The Snow Walker | Walter "Shep" Shepherd
2003 -- Blackball | Ray Speight
2003 -- The John Garfield Story | Self
2002 -- RFK | President Lyndon Baines Johnson
2002 -- The Sum of All Fears | President Fowler
2002 -- Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron | The Colonel (voice)
2002 -- Project Viper | MP 1
2002 -- A Death in the Family | Joel Lynch
2002 -- The Magnificent Ambersons | Major Amberson
2000 -- Space Cowboys | Bob Gerson
2000 -- Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile | Self / Warden Hal Moores
2000 -- Fail Safe | Gordon Knapp
2000 -- RKO 281 | William Randolph Hearst
1999 -- Snow Falling on Cedars | Judge Fielding
1999 -- The Green Mile | Warden Hal Moores
1999 -- The Bachelor | Priest
1999 -- A Slight Case of Murder | John Edgarson
1999 -- The General's Daughter | General Joseph Campbell
1998 -- Babe: Pig in the City | Farmer Arthur Hoggett
1998 -- Deep Impact | Alan Rittenhouse
1998 -- Species II | Senator Ross
1998 -- Owd Bob | Adam MacAdam
1997 -- The Education of Little Tree | Nonno
1997 -- L.A. Confidential | Dudley Smith
1996 -- The People vs. Larry Flynt | Charles Keating
1996 -- Star Trek: First Contact | Dr. Zefram Cochrane
1996 -- Eraser | William Donohue
1995 -- Babe | Farmer Hoggett
1995 -- Indictment: The McMartin Trial | Judge Pounders
1994 -- The Shaggy Dog | Charlie Mulvihill
1994 -- Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds In Love | Mr. Skolnick
1993 -- Romeo Is Bleeding | Cage
1992 -- Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation | Mr. Skolnick
1992 -- The Babe | Brother Mathias
1990 -- Miracle Landing | B.J Cocker
1989 -- The Runnin' Kind | Uncle Phil
1989 -- Pink Cadillac | Motel Desk Clerk
1988 -- The Rescue | Adm. Rothman
1988 -- China Beach: Pilot | Ambassador at Large Roland Weymouth
1987 -- Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise | Mr. Skolnick
1986 -- A Fine Mess | Detective Blist
1986 -- The Last Precinct | Chief Bludhorn
1985 -- Explorers | Mr. Müller
1984 -- Oh, God! You Devil | Priest
1984 -- Revenge of the Nerds | Mr. Skolnick
1984 -- Spraggue | Lt. George Hurley
1984 -- Tank | Deputy Euclid
1984 -- The House of God | Officer Quick
1983 -- The Man with Two Brains | Realtor
1982 -- The Rainmaker | Noah Curry
1982 -- Barefoot In the Park | Harry Pepper
1982 -- The Wall | Francisek
1981 -- Nobody's Perfekt | Dr. Carson
1980 -- A Christmas Without Snow | Reverend Lohman
1978 -- The Cheap Detective | Schnell
1978 -- Peeping Times | Bernard Mantee
1977 -- Deadly Game | Deputy Malcom Rossiter Jr.
1977 -- The Girl in the Empty Grave | Deputy Malcolm Rossiter Jr.
1976 -- Murder by Death | Marcel Cassette
1955 -- Daddy Long Legs | Extra (uncredited)
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