Loading amazing content...
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 27, 1940
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Also Known As
- Jim Crowell
- Jamie Cromwell
- Джеймс Кромуэлл
- Τζέιμς Κρόμγουελ
- 詹姆斯·克隆威爾
- 詹姆斯.克隆威爾
- جیمز کرامول
James Cromwell
2.7 Popularity
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
4.5
Alfred Thaddeus Crane Pennyworth (voice)
BAT-FAM
2025
6.7
George Wilcox
Murder in a Small Town
2024
7.0
Judge
Rebel Ridge
2024
7.3
Jonathan Siegel
Sugar
2024
6.6
Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
Merry Little Batman
2023
6.8
Bud
Prancer: A Christmas Tale
2022
6.9
Self
The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek
2021
7.9
Miles Darman
Law & Order: Organized Crime
2021
7.6
John Brown
Emperor
2020
7.6
Dr. Zefram Cochrane (voice)
Star Trek: Lower Decks
2020
Credits
BAT-FAM
as Alfred Thaddeus Crane Pennyworth (voice)
2025
4.5
Murder in a Small Town
as George Wilcox
2024
6.7
Rebel Ridge
as Judge
2024
7.0
Sugar
as Jonathan Siegel
2024
7.3
Merry Little Batman
as Alfred Pennyworth (voice)
2023
6.6
Prancer: A Christmas Tale
as Bud
2022
6.8
The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek
as Self
2021
6.9
Law & Order: Organized Crime
as Miles Darman
2021
7.9
Emperor
as John Brown
2020
7.6
Star Trek: Lower Decks
as Dr. Zefram Cochrane (voice)
2020
7.6
Operation Buffalo
as Cranky
2020
6.0
Never Too Late
as Jack Bronson
2020
5.8
The Immortal
as Grandfather
2019
4.0
The Laundromat
as Joseph David Martin
2019
6.0
The Family
as Douglas Coe
2019
6.7
🎬
That Guy... Who Was In That Thing 3: Trek Stars
as Self
2019
1.5
Countdown to Year Zero
2019
0.0
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
as Benjamin Lockwood
2018
6.5
Succession
as Ewan Roy
2018
8.3
Counterpart
as Yanek
2017
7.4
Marshall
as The Judge
2017
7.2
The Promise
as Henry Morgenthau Sr.
2016
6.9
The Young Pope
as Cardinal Michael Spencer
2016
7.7
Berlin Station
as Gilbert Dorn
2016
7.2
50 Years of Star Trek
as Self
2016
6.4
The Detour
as J.R.
2016
7.0
The Perfect Crime: Leopold & Loeb
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2016
4.7
Walking the Mile
as Self
2014
5.0
Big Hero 6
as Professor Robert Callaghan (voice)
2014
7.7
In Between Songs
as Narrator
2014
0.0
Murder in the First
as Warren Daniels
2014
5.8
Halt and Catch Fire
as Jacob Wheeler
2014
7.9
The Trials of Cate McCall
as Justice Sumpter
2013
6.4
La Classe américaine
as Self
2012
6.5
A Night at the Movies: Hollywood Goes to Washington
as Self - Interviewee
2012
7.0
Still Mine
as Craig Morrison
2012
6.9
The Artist: The Making of an American Romance
as Self
2012
6.0
Hollywood as Character: The Locations of The Artist
as Himself
2012
0.0
Soldiers of Fortune
as Haussman
2012
4.9
Cowgirls n' Angels
as Terence Parker
2012
6.0
Hide Away
as The Ancient Mariner
2011
4.7
Admissions
as The Clerk
2011
0.0
The Artist
as Clifton
2011
7.4
American Horror Story
as Dr. Arthur Arden
2011
8.1
Memorial Day
as Bud Vogel
2011
6.1
Farm to Fridge
as Narrator
2011
7.5
Sotto il cielo di Roma
as Pope Pius XII
2010
0.0
Pope Pius XII
as Pope Pius XII
2010
4.2
Boardwalk Empire
as Andrew W. Mellon
2010
8.0
Secretariat
as Ogden Phipps
2010
7.4
Beyond All Boundaries
as Major General Alexander A. Vandegrift / Fleet Admiral William Halsey
2009
6.8
Surrogates
as Dr. Lionel Canter
2009
6.1
The Last Days of Lehman Brothers
as Hank Paulson
2009
5.5
🎬
Starz Inside - Unforgettably Evil
as Self
2009
5.3
Impact
as Lloyd
2009
5.9
A Lonely Place for Dying
as Howard Simons
2009
3.5
W.
as George H.W. Bush
2008
6.2
My Own Worst Enemy
as Alistair Trumbull
2008
6.5
Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential'
as Self
2008
7.0
Tortured
as Jack
2008
5.5
Masters of Science Fiction
2007
6.2
Spider-Man 3
as Captain Stacy
2007
6.4
Becoming Jane
as Mr. Austen
2007
7.3
Dante's Inferno
as Virgil (voice)
2007
6.2
🎬
The Making of 'The Queen'
as Self
2007
6.0
Looking For Else
as Self
2007
0.0
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
as Self
2006
7.8
The Queen
as Prince Philip
2006
6.9
King Leopold's Ghost
2006
7.6
Avenger
as Paul Devereaux
2006
5.9
Pope John Paul II
as Cardinal Adam Sapieha
2005
6.1
Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy
as Narrator
2005
9.5
The Longest Yard
as Warden Hazen
2005
6.7
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
as Self
2004
2.0
I, Robot
as Dr. Alfred Lanning
2004
7.0
Salem's Lot
as Donald Callahan
2004
5.9
A Carol Christmas
as Ghost of Christmas Future (uncredited)
2003
5.6
Angels in America
as Roy's Doctor
2003
7.6
The Snow Walker
as Walter "Shep" Shepherd
2003
6.9
Blackball
as Ray Speight
2003
5.2
The John Garfield Story
as Self
2003
8.0
RFK
as President Lyndon Baines Johnson
2002
5.8
The Sum of All Fears
as President Fowler
2002
6.4
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
as The Colonel (voice)
2002
7.7
Project Viper
as MP 1
2002
4.7
A Death in the Family
as Joel Lynch
2002
4.7
The Magnificent Ambersons
as Major Amberson
2002
5.6
24
as Phillip Bauer
2001
7.8
Citizen Baines
2001
0.0
Six Feet Under
as George Sibley
2001
8.1
Space Cowboys
as Bob Gerson
2000
6.4
🎬
Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile
as Self / Warden Hal Moores
2000
7.0
Fail Safe
as Gordon Knapp
2000
6.9
RKO 281
as William Randolph Hearst
2000
6.4
Snow Falling on Cedars
as Judge Fielding
1999
6.0
The Green Mile
as Warden Hal Moores
1999
8.5
The Bachelor
as Priest
1999
5.1
The West Wing
as President D. Wire Newman
1999
8.2
A Slight Case of Murder
as John Edgarson
1999
6.3
The General's Daughter
as General Joseph Campbell
1999
6.4
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
as Self - Guest
1999
4.6
Babe: Pig in the City
as Farmer Arthur Hoggett
1998
5.7
Deep Impact
as Alan Rittenhouse
1998
6.2
Species II
as Senator Ross
1998
5.2
Owd Bob
as Adam MacAdam
1998
5.6
The Education of Little Tree
as Nonno
1997
6.5
L.A. Confidential
as Dudley Smith
1997
7.8
The People vs. Larry Flynt
as Charles Keating
1996
7.0
Star Trek: First Contact
as Dr. Zefram Cochrane
1996
7.3
Eraser
as William Donohue
1996
6.1
The Client
as Officer Joe Denton
1995
6.8
Partners
1995
10.0
Babe
as Farmer Hoggett
1995
6.3
Indictment: The McMartin Trial
as Judge Pounders
1995
7.0
The Shaggy Dog
as Charlie Mulvihill
1994
4.8
ER
as Bishop Stewart
1994
7.8
Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love
as Mr. Skolnick
1994
4.5
Romeo Is Bleeding
as Cage
1993
6.3
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
as Hanok
1993
7.9
Picket Fences
as The Bishop
1992
7.4
Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation
as Mr. Skolnick
1992
4.5
The Babe
as Brother Mathias
1992
5.6
Home Improvement
as Fred
1991
7.4
American Dreamer
1990
4.5
Miracle Landing
as B.J. Cocker
1990
5.7
Christine Cromwell
1989
7.3
The Runnin' Kind
as Uncle Phil
1989
1.0
Pink Cadillac
as Motel Desk Clerk
1989
5.5
The Rescue
as Adm. Rothman
1988
5.3
China Beach
1988
7.4
China Beach: Pilot
as Ambassador at Large Roland Weymouth
1988
0.0
Star Trek: The Next Generation
as Prime Minister Nayrok
1987
8.4
Star Trek: The Next Generation
as Jaglom Shrek
1987
8.4
Jake and the Fatman
1987
6.2
Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise
as Mr. Skolnick
1987
5.6
Easy Street
1986
5.7
A Fine Mess
as Detective Blist
1986
4.5
Matlock
as Judge Raymond Price
1986
7.1
The Last Precinct
as Chief Bludhorn
1986
0.0
Amazing Stories
as Francis
1985
7.4
The Twilight Zone
as (segment "A Message From Charity")
1985
7.8
Explorers
as Mr. Müller
1985
6.3
Wildside
1985
5.7
Oh, God! You Devil
as Priest
1984
5.6
Hunter
as Seymour Robbins
1984
7.1
Revenge of the Nerds
as Mr. Skolnick
1984
6.5
Spraggue
as Lt. George Hurley
1984
0.0
Tank
as Deputy Euclid
1984
5.7
Night Court
as Alan
1984
7.3
The House of God
as Officer Quick
1984
2.3
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
1983
6.4
The Man with Two Brains
as Realtor
1983
6.2
The Rainmaker
as Noah Curry
1982
6.7
Knight Rider
as Curtis
1982
7.5
Family Ties
as John Hancock
1982
7.2
Barefoot In the Park
as Harry Pepper
1982
5.8
The Wall
as Francisek
1982
5.8
Nobody's Perfekt
as Dr. Carson
1981
3.3
Foul Play
as Bebet
1981
5.0
Hill Street Blues
1981
7.6
A Christmas Without Snow
as Reverend Lohman
1980
5.6
Flo
1980
5.0
The White Shadow
as Mr. Hamilton
1978
7.1
The White Shadow
as Art Commings
1978
7.1
Diff'rent Strokes
1978
7.1
The Cheap Detective
as Schnell
1978
6.3
Dallas
as Gerald Kane
1978
6.8
Peeping Times
as Bernard Mantee
1978
4.0
Deadly Game
as Deputy Malcolm Rossiter Jr.
1977
6.5
The Girl in the Empty Grave
as Deputy Malcolm Rossiter Jr.
1977
7.1
Three's Company
as Detective Lannigan
1977
7.6
Eight Is Enough
1977
6.1
Once an Eagle
as J.L. Cleghorne
1976
6.8
The Nancy Walker Show
as Glen
1976
5.0
All's Fair
1976
7.0
Alice
1976
7.1
Murder by Death
as Marcel Cassette
1976
7.2
Barbary Coast
as Roy
1975
7.5
Hot l Baltimore
1975
3.5
Barney Miller
as Sgt. Wilkinson
1975
7.3
Barney Miller
as Neil Spencer
1975
7.3
Barney Miller
as Dr. Edmund Danworth
1975
7.3
Barney Miller
as Jason Parrish
1975
7.3
The Rockford Files
as Terry
1974
7.6
Little House on the Prairie
as Harve Miller
1974
7.9
Police Story
1973
6.9
M*A*S*H
1972
7.9
All in the Family
as Stretch Cunningham
1971
7.8
Daddy Long Legs
as Extra (uncredited)
1955
6.4
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Audience Member
1944
7.2
Night Vet
as Dr. Abel Evergood
N/A
0.0
Get Lost
as Frederick (Red King)
N/A
0.0