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James Oliver Cromwell 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 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 29 May 1986.
Movie | Rebel Ridge | Judge | 2025 |
Movie | Night Vet | Dr. Abel Evergood | 2025 |
Movie | Merry Little Batman | Alfred Pennyworth (voice) | 2023-12-08 |
Movie | Emperor | John Brown | 2020-08-18 |
Series | The Family | Douglas Coe | 2019-08-09 |
Movie | The Immortal | Grandfather | 2019-11-30 |
Movie | The Laundromat | Joseph David Martin | 2019-09-27 |
Movie | Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom | Benjamin Lockwood | 2018-06-06 |
Movie | Marshall | The Judge | 2017-10-13 |
Series | Counterpart | Yanek | 2017-12-10 |
Movie | The Perfect Crime: Leopold & Loeb | Narrator | 2016-02-09 |
Movie | The Promise | Henry Morgenthau Sr. | 2016-12-02 |
Series | The Detour | J.R. | 2016-04-11 |
Series | The Young Pope | Cardinal Michael Spencer | 2016-10-21 |
Movie | 50 Years of Star Trek | Self | 2016-08-14 |
Movie | Big Hero 6 | Professor Robert Callaghan (voice) | 2014-10-24 |
Movie | The Trials of Cate McCall | Justice Sumpter | 2013-11-28 |
Movie | Cowgirls n' Angels | Terence Parker | 2012-05-25 |
Movie | Soldiers of Fortune | Haussman | 2012-06-07 |
Movie | Still Mine | Craig Morrison | 2012-09-10 |
Movie | Memorial Day | Bud Vogel | 2011-06-06 |
Series | American Horror Story | Dr. Arthur Arden | 2011-10-05 |
Movie | Farm to Fridge | Narrator | 2011-02-01 |
Movie | Hide Away | The Ancient Mariner | 2011-10-30 |
Movie | The Artist | Clifton | 2011-10-12 |
Movie | Secretariat | Ogden Phipps | 2010-08-20 |
Movie | Pope Pius XII | Pope Pius XII | 2010-10-31 |
Series | Impact | Lloyd | 2009-02-14 |
Movie | Starz Inside - Unforgettably Evil | Self | 2009-07-26 |
Movie | A Lonely Place for Dying | Howard Simons | 2009-01-01 |
Movie | Surrogates | Dr. Lionel Canter | 2009-09-24 |
Series | The Last Days of Lehman Brothers | 2009-09-09 | |
Movie | Beyond All Boundaries | Major General Alexander A. Vandegrift / Fleet Admiral William Halsey | 2009-11-09 |
Movie | The Last Days of Lehman Brothers | Hank Paulson | 2009-09-09 |
Movie | Tortured | Jack | 2008-09-10 |
Movie | W. | George H.W. Bush | 2008-10-17 |
Movie | Dante's Inferno | Virgil (voice) | 2007-01-18 |
Movie | Becoming Jane | Mr. Austen | 2007-03-02 |
Series | Masters of Science Fiction | Unknown | 2007-08-04 |
Movie | Spider-Man 3 | Captain Stacey | 2007-05-01 |
Movie | The Queen | Philip of Edinburgh | 2006-09-15 |
Movie | Avenger | Paul Devereaux | 2006-04-09 |
Movie | The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird | Self | 2006-10-03 |
Movie | The Longest Yard | Warden Hazen | 2005-05-27 |
Movie | Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy | Narrator | 2005-10-04 |
Series | Pope John Paul II | Cardinal Adam Sapieha | 2005-12-04 |
Series | Salem's Lot | Donald Callahan | 2004-06-20 |
Movie | I, Robot | Dr. Alfred Lanning | 2004-07-15 |
Movie | The John Garfield Story | Self | 2003-02-03 |
Series | Angels in America | Henry | 2003-12-07 |
Movie | Blackball | Ray Speight | 2003-05-18 |
Movie | The Snow Walker | Walter "Shep" Shepherd | 2003-09-11 |
Movie | A Carol Christmas | Ghost of Christmas Future (uncredited) | 2003-12-07 |
Movie | A Death in the Family | Joel Lynch | 2002-03-25 |
Movie | The Magnificent Ambersons | Major Amberson | 2002-01-12 |
Movie | Project Viper | MP 1 | 2002-05-15 |
Movie | Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron | The Colonel (voice) | 2002-05-24 |
Movie | RFK | President Lyndon Baines Johnson | 2002-08-25 |
Movie | The Sum of All Fears | President Fowler | 2002-05-31 |
Series | Six Feet Under | George Sibley | 2001-06-03 |
Series | Citizen Baines | 2001-09-29 | |
Series | 24 | Phillip Bauer | 2001-11-06 |
Movie | Raptor | Benny | 2001-11-06 |
Movie | RKO 281 | William Randolph Hearst | 2000-04-07 |
Movie | Fail Safe | Gordon Knapp | 2000-04-09 |
Movie | Space Cowboys | Bob Gerson | 2000-08-04 |
Movie | The General's Daughter | General Joseph Campbell | 1999-06-18 |
Series | The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn | Unknown | 1999-03-30 |
Movie | A Slight Case of Murder | John Edgarson | 1999-09-19 |
Movie | The Bachelor | Priest | 1999-11-05 |
Movie | Snow Falling on Cedars | Judge Fielding | 1999-12-22 |
Movie | The Green Mile | Warden Hal Moores | 1999-12-10 |
Movie | Owd Bob | Adam MacAdam | 1998-01-01 |
Movie | Species II | Senator Ross | 1998-04-10 |
Movie | Babe: Pig in the City | Farmer Arthur Hoggett | 1998-11-25 |
Movie | Deep Impact | Alan Rittenhouse | 1998-05-08 |
Movie | L.A. Confidential | Dudley Smith | 1997-09-19 |
Movie | The Education of Little Tree | Nonno | 1997-12-25 |
Movie | Eraser | William Donohue | 1996-06-21 |
Movie | The People vs. Larry Flynt | Charles Keating | 1996-12-25 |
Movie | Star Trek: First Contact | Dr. Zefram Cochrane | 1996-11-22 |
Movie | Babe | Farmer Hoggett | 1995-07-18 |
Movie | Indictment: The McMartin Trial | Judge Pounders | 1995-05-20 |
Series | Partners | Unknown | 1995-09-11 |
Movie | Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds In Love | Mr. Skolnick | 1994-05-09 |
Movie | The Shaggy Dog | Charlie Mulvihill | 1994-11-12 |
Series | ER | Unknown | 1994-09-19 |
Movie | Romeo Is Bleeding | Cage | 1993-09-13 |
Movie | Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation | Mr. Skolnick | 1992-07-13 |
Movie | The Babe | Brother Mathias | 1992-04-17 |
Series | Home Improvement | Unknown | 1991-09-17 |
Movie | Miracle Landing | B.J Cocker | 1990-02-11 |
Series | American Dreamer | Unknown | 1990-09-20 |
Movie | The Runnin' Kind | Uncle Phil | 1989-09-08 |
Movie | Pink Cadillac | Motel Desk Clerk | 1989-05-26 |
Series | China Beach | Unknown | 1988-04-26 |
Movie | The Rescue | Adm. Rothman | 1988-08-05 |
Movie | Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise | Mr. Skolnick | 1987-07-10 |
Series | Star Trek: The Next Generation | Unknown | 1987-09-28 |
Series | Jake and the Fatman | Unknown | 1987-09-26 |
Movie | The Last Precinct | Chief Bludhorn | 1986-01-26 |
Series | Matlock | Unknown | 1986-03-03 |
Series | Easy Street | 1986-09-13 | |
Movie | A Fine Mess | Detective Blist | 1986-08-08 |
Series | Wildside | Unknown | 1985-03-21 |
Movie | Explorers | Mr. Müller | 1985-07-12 |
Series | The Twilight Zone | Unknown | 1985-09-27 |
Series | Night Court | Unknown | 1984-01-04 |
Movie | The House of God | Officer Quick | 1984-01-01 |
Movie | Tank | Deputy Euclid | 1984-03-16 |
Movie | Revenge of the Nerds | Mr. Skolnick | 1984-07-20 |
Movie | Oh, God! You Devil | Priest | 1984-11-07 |
Series | Hunter | Unknown | 1984-09-18 |
Movie | The Man with Two Brains | Realtor | 1983-06-10 |
Series | Scarecrow and Mrs. King | Unknown | 1983-10-03 |
Movie | Barefoot In the Park | Harry Pepper | 1982-03-20 |
Series | Family Ties | Unknown | 1982-09-22 |
Movie | The Rainmaker | Noah Curry | 1982-10-23 |
Series | Knight Rider | Unknown | 1982-09-26 |
Series | Hill Street Blues | Unknown | 1981-01-15 |
Series | Foul Play | Unknown | 1981-01-26 |
Movie | Nobody's Perfekt | Dr. Carson | 1981-08-07 |
Series | Flo | Unknown | 1980-03-21 |
Movie | A Christmas Without Snow | Reverend Lohman | 1980-12-09 |
Movie | The Cheap Detective | Schnell | 1978-06-23 |
Movie | Peeping Times | Bernard Mantee | 1978-01-25 |
Series | Diff'rent Strokes | Unknown | 1978-11-03 |
Series | The White Shadow | Unknown | 1978-11-27 |
Series | Three's Company | Unknown | 1977-03-15 |
Series | Eight Is Enough | Unknown | 1977-03-15 |
Movie | The Girl in the Empty Grave | Deputy Malcolm Rossiter Jr. | 1977-09-20 |
Movie | Deadly Game | Deputy Malcom Rossiter Jr. | 1977-12-01 |
Movie | Murder by Death | Marcel Cassette | 1976-06-23 |
Series | All's Fair | Unknown | 1976-09-20 |
Series | Alice | Unknown | 1976-08-31 |
Series | The Nancy Walker Show | Glen | 1976-09-30 |
Series | Once an Eagle | J.L. Cleghorne | 1976-12-02 |
Series | Barney Miller | Unknown | 1975-01-23 |
Series | Barbary Coast | Unknown | 1975-09-08 |
Series | Hot l Baltimore | 1975-01-24 | |
Series | Little House on the Prairie | Unknown | 1974-09-11 |
Series | Police Story | Unknown | 1973-03-20 |
Series | M*A*S*H | Unknown | 1972-09-17 |
Series | All in the Family | Unknown | 1971-01-12 |
Series | The Fugitive | Unknown | 1963-09-17 |
Movie | Daddy Long Legs | Extra (uncredited) | 1955-05-05 |