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Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 2, 1930
Place of Birth
Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
John Cullum
1.0 Popularity
Biography
John Cullum (born March 2, 1930) is an American actor and singer. He is a five-time Tony Award nominee and two-time winner, both for Best Leading Actor in a Musical (Shenandoah in 1975 and On the Twentieth Century in 1978). On screen, Cullum is best known for his starring role as tavern owner Holling Vincoeur in Northern Exposure (1990 - 1995), which earned him an Emmy nomination. He also had recurring roles on ER, Law & Order: SVU, The Middle, and Madam Secretary. His film appearances include Hawaii (1966), 1776 (1972), All Good Things (2010), Kill Your Darlings (2013), Before We Go (2014), and Christine (2016).
Known For
3.0
Nate
Simchas and Sorrows
2022
0.0
Arch Pontifex
The Acolyte
2021
0.0
Self
John Cullum: An Accidental Star
2021
6.5
Yates
Jungleland
2020
8.1
Logan Zeiger
Prodigal Son
2019
6.9
Bob Andersen
Christine
2016
7.1
Daddy's Daddy
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
2015
3.3
Brigston Hadley
The Historian
2014
7.0
Senator Beau Carpenter
Madam Secretary
2014
7.0
Seantor Beau Carpenter
Madam Secretary
2014
Credits
Simchas and Sorrows
as Nate
2022
3.0
The Acolyte
as Arch Pontifex
2021
0.0
John Cullum: An Accidental Star
as Self
2021
0.0
Jungleland
as Yates
2020
6.5
Prodigal Son
as Logan Zeiger
2019
8.1
Christine
as Bob Andersen
2016
6.9
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
as Daddy's Daddy
2015
7.1
The Historian
as Brigston Hadley
2014
3.3
Madam Secretary
as Senator Beau Carpenter
2014
7.0
Madam Secretary
as Seantor Beau Carpenter
2014
7.0
Before We Go
as Harry
2014
6.7
Love Is Strange
as Father Raymond
2014
6.3
Adult World
as Stan
2014
6.0
Kill Your Darlings
as Professor Steeves
2013
7.0
The Blacklist
as Ted King
2013
7.6
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel: Live from Lincoln Center
as The Starkeeper
2013
7.3
Kilimanjaro
as Milton
2013
4.8
The Conspirator
as Justice Wylie
2011
6.6
All Good Things
as Richard Panatierre
2010
6.0
Lafayette: The Lost Hero
as Self - Narrator
2010
10.0
The Middle
as Big Mike
2009
7.6
The Good Wife
as Cardinal James
2009
7.6
Damages
as Ed O'Malley
2007
7.4
Mad Men
as Lee Garner, Sr.
2007
8.1
30 Rock
as Mysterious Man
2006
7.5
The Night Listener
as Pap Noone
2006
5.5
Secrets of Angels, Demons and Masons
as Narrator
2005
6.0
The Notorious Bettie Page
as Preacher in Nashville
2005
6.3
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice)
2004
7.1
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
as Other Voices (voice)
2003
7.4
Ricochet River
as Link Curren
2001
5.0
Urinetown
as Caldwell B. Cladwell
2001
7.7
Held Up
as Jack
1999
5.6
Roswell
as James Valenti Sr.
1999
7.7
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Barry Moredock
1999
7.9
Inherit the Wind
as Judge Merle Coffey
1999
6.1
The Magnificent Seven
as Reverend Owen Mosley
1998
6.0
The Secret Life of Algernon
as Algernon Pendleton
1997
4.0
Touched by an Angel
as Mark Twain
1994
7.2
ER
as David Greene
1994
7.8
Law & Order
as Harold Dorning
1990
7.4
Law & Order
as Bernard Powell, Sr.
1990
7.4
Northern Exposure
as Holling Vincoeur
1990
7.9
Money, Power, Murder.
as Rev. Endicott
1989
3.8
Quantum Leap
as John O'Malley / Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote
1989
8.0
Shootdown
as Robert Allardyce
1988
5.4
Sweet Country
as Ben
1987
4.4
Marie: A True Story
as Deputy Attorney General
1985
5.6
Spenser: For Hire
1985
6.7
The Equalizer
as Stuart Cane
1985
7.1
The Equalizer
as Judge Howard Tainey
1985
7.1
The Act
as The President
1984
2.4
The Day After
as Jim Dahlberg
1983
6.8
The Prodigal
as Elton Stuart
1983
8.0
Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences
as Carl Sandburg
1982
0.0
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
as Mr. Jamison
1978
8.0
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
as Mr. Jamison
1978
3.0
The Man Without a Country
as Aaron Burr
1973
6.5
1776
as Edward Rutledge (SC)
1972
6.8
Great Performances
as Lawyer Royall
1971
5.8
Great Performances
as Walter
1971
5.8
Great Performances
as Self
1971
5.8
The Outcasts
1968
5.3
Androcles and the Lion
as Roman Captain
1967
0.0
Hawaii
as Immanuel Quigley
1966
6.3
The Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner
as Self
1966
0.0
Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
as Laertes
1964
6.5
All the Way Home
as Andrew
1963
6.5
The Edge of Night
1956
6.1
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee/Performer
1956
5.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Winner
1956
5.9