James Cromwell filmography

James Cromwell filmography
James Cromwell filmography
	Cromwell in 2010
Occupation	Actor;
Years active	1974–present

The following is a list of acting credits for American character actor and activist James Cromwell.

With nearly 200 acting credits to his name, Cromwell has starred in Babe (1995), Star Trek: First Contact (1996), L.A. Confidential (1997), The Green Mile (1999), Space Cowboys (2000), The Sum of All Fears (2002), I, Robot (2004), and The Artist (2011), as well as the television series Six Feet Under (2003–05), 24 (2007), American Horror Story: Asylum (2012), and Halt and Catch Fire (2015).

Cromwell has been nominated for four Emmy Awards and four Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Babe. In 2013, he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor for his role in Still Mine and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for his role in American Horror Story: Asylum.^[1]

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1955	Daddy Long Legs	Extra	Appears at ~1:11:01 on RHS of screen
1976	Murder by Death	Marcel
1978	The Cheap Detective	Schnell
1981	Nobody's Perfekt	Dr. Carson
1982	Born to the Wind	Fish Belly
1983	The Man with Two Brains	Realtor
1984	The House of God	Officer Quick
	Tank	Deputy Euclid Baker
	Revenge of the Nerds	Mr. Skolnick	Credited as "Jamie Cromwell"
	Oh, God! You Devil	Priest
1985	Explorers	Mr. Müller
1986	A Fine Mess	Detective Blist
1986	The Last Precinct	Chief Bludhorn
1987	Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise	Mr. Skolnick
1988	The Rescue	Admiral Rothman
1989	The Runnin' Kind	Unknown
1989	Pink Cadillac	Motel Desk Clerk
1992	The Babe	Brother Mathias
1993	Romeo Is Bleeding	Cage
1995	Babe	Farmer Arthur Hoggett
1996	Eraser	William Donohue
	The People vs. Larry Flynt	Charles Keating
	Star Trek: First Contact	Dr. Zefram Cochrane
1997	L.A. Confidential	Captain Dudley Smith
1997	The Education of Little Tree	Granpa
1998	Owd Bob	Adam MacAdam
	Species II	Senator Judson Ross
	Deep Impact	Alan Rittenhouse
	Babe: Pig in the City	Farmer Arthur Hoggett
1999	The General's Daughter	Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell
	The Bachelor	Priest
	The Green Mile	Warden Hal Moores
	Snow Falling on Cedars	Judge Fielding
2000	Space Cowboys	Bob Gerson
2002	Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron	The Colonel	Voice^[2]
	The Sum of All Fears	President J. Robert Fowler
	The Nazi	Franz
2003	Blackball	Ray Speight
2003	The Snow Walker	Walter Shepherd
2004	I, Robot	Dr. Alfred Lanning
2005	The Longest Yard	Warden Rudolph Hazen
2006	The Queen	Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
2007	Dante's Inferno	Virgil
	Becoming Jane	Reverend Austen
	Spider-Man 3	George Stacy
2008	Hit Factor	Orson Fierce
	Tortured	Jack
	W.	George H. W. Bush
2009	A Lonely Place for Dying	Howard Simons
2009	Surrogates	Dr. Lionel Canter
2010	Secretariat	Ogden Phipps
2011	Admissions	The Clerk
2011	The Artist	Clifton
2012	Cowgirls 'n Angels	Terence Parker
	Memorial Day	Bud Vogel
	Flying into Love	Lyndon B. Johnson
	Still Mine	Craig Morrison
	Soldiers of Fortune	Sam Haussmann
2013	The Trials of Cate McCall	Justice Sumpter
2014	Big Hero 6	Robert Callaghan / Yokai	Voice^[2]
2016	The Promise	Henry Morgenthau Sr.
2017	Marshall	Judge Foster
2018	Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom	Benjamin Lockwood^[3]
2019	The Laundromat	Joseph David "Joe" Martin
2020	Never Too Late	Jack Bronson
2020	Emperor	John Brown
2022	Prancer: A Christmas Tale	Bud Mcshane
2023	Merry Little Batman	Alfred Pennyworth	Voice; direct-to-streaming film^[4]^[5]
TBA	Rebel Ridge	TBA	Filming

Television

Television series

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1974	The Rockford Files	Terry	Episode: "The Countess"
1974	All in the Family	Stretch Cunningham	3 episodes
1974	Maude	Alfie	Episode: "Last Tango in Tuckahoe"
1975	Hot l Baltimore	Bill Lewis	13 episodes
1975	Barbary Coast	Roy	Episode: "The Ballad of Redwing Jail"
1976–1977	The Nancy Walker Show	Glen	13 episodes
1977	Police Story	Lutz	Episode: "Ice Time"
1977	MASH*	Captain Leo Bardonaro	Episode: "Last Laugh"
1977	Three's Company	Detective Lannigan	Episode: "Chrissy's Night Out"
1977	Barney Miller	Sgt. Wilkinson	Episode: "Group Home"
1978	Maude	Dr. Farrington	Episode: "The Obscene Phone Call"
1978	Alice	Detective Ralph Hilton	Episode: "Who Ordered the Hot Turkey?"
1979	Barney Miller	Neil Spencer	Episode: "Strip Joint"
1979	Flatbush	Sonny	Episode: "Kar Kannibals"
1979	Eight Is Enough	Coach Pollard	Episode: "The Better Part of Valor"
1979	Diff'rent Strokes	Father O'Brien	Episode: "Arnold's Hero"
1979	The White Shadow	Mr. Hamilton	Episode: "Mainstream"
1980	Flo	Leon	2 episodes
1980	The White Shadow	Art Cummings	Episode: "The Death of Me Yet"
1980	Little House on the Prairie	Harve Miller	2 episodes
1981	Barney Miller	Jason Parrish	Episode: "Liquidation"
1982	Nurse	Paul Moore	Episode: "A Place to Die"
1982	Father Murphy	Farley Webster	2 episodes
1984	Buffalo Bill	Staunton McMoller	Episode: "Jerry Lewis Week"
1984	Gimme a Break!	Russell Cosgrove	Episode: "Class of '84"
1984–1985	Dallas	Gerald Kane	3 episodes
1985	Night Court	Alan	Episode: "Nuts About Hurry"
1985	Family Ties	John Hancock	Episode: "Philadelphia Story"
1985	Riptide	Joey Dietz	Episode: "Girls Night Out"
1985	Hardcastle and McCormick	Jake Fellows	Episode: "Undercover McCormick"
1985	Knight Rider	Curtis	Episode: "Ten Wheel Trouble"
1985	Wildside	Fake Buffalo Bill	Episode: "Buffalo Who?"
1985	Hill Street Blues	Lowenhandler	Episode: "Grin and Bear It"
1985	Hunter	Seymour Robbins	Episode: "Sniper"
1985	The Twilight Zone	Obediah Payne	Episode: "A Message From Charity"
1985–1986	Scarecrow and Mrs. King	Gregory	2 episodes
1986	Amazing Stories	Francis	Episode: "One for the Road"
1986	Magnum, P.I.	French Policeman	Episode: "Photo Play"
1986–1987	Easy Street	Quentin Standard	22 episodes
1988	China Beach	Ambassador	Episode: "Pilot"
1988	Mr. Belvedere	Roy Gallagher	Episode: "Fat Cats"
1988	Mama's Boy	Lucky	3 episodes
1989	Christine Cromwell	Arthur	Episode: "Things That Go Bump in the Night"
1990	Life Goes On	Bill Henderson	Episode: "Thacher and Henderson"
1990	Matlock	Judge Raymond Price	Episode: "Nowhere to Turn"
1990	Star Trek: The Next Generation	Prime Minister Nayrok	Episode: "The Hunted"
1991	The Young Riders	Jacob	Episode: "Peacemakers"
1991	Jake and the Fatman	Havilland	Episode: "It Never Entered My Mind"
1993	Star Trek: The Next Generation	Jaglom Shrek	2 episodes: "Birthright Part 1 & 2"
1994	L.A. Law	Attorney Hutton	Episode: "McKenzie, Brackman, Barnum and Bailey"
1994	Home Improvement	Fred	Episode: "My Dinner with Wilson"
1995	Picket Fences	The Bishop	Episode: "Saint Zach"
1995	Hawkeye	Longsworth	Episode: "The Visit"
1995	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	Hanok	Episode: "Starship Down"
1995–1996	Partners	Mr. Saxonhouse	2 episodes
1996	Strange Luck	Minister	Episode: "Healing Hands"
1996	The Client	Officer Joe Denton	Episode: "The High Ground"
2001	ER	Bishop Stewart	4 episodes
2001	Star Trek: Enterprise	Dr. Zefram Cochrane	2 episodes
2001	Citizen Baines	Senator Elliot Baines	7 episodes
2003	Angels in America	Henry	2 episodes
2003–2005	Six Feet Under	George Sibley	26 episodes
2004	The West Wing	President D. Wire Newman	Episode: "The Stormy Present"
2004	Salem's Lot	Father Donald Callahan	2 episodes
2005	Pope John Paul II	Cardinal Adam Stefan Sapieha	2 episodes
2007	24	Phillip Bauer	8 episodes
2007	Masters of Science Fiction	Randolph Ludwin	Episode: "Watchbird"
2008	My Own Worst Enemy	Alistar Trumble	6 episodes
2009	Impact	Lloyd	2 episodes
2010	Pius XII: Under the Roman Sky [it]	Pope Pius XII	2 episodes
2012–2013	Boardwalk Empire	Andrew W. Mellon	4 episodes
2012–2013	American Horror Story: Asylum	Dr. Arthur Arden/Hans Gruper	10 episodes
2013	Do No Harm	Dr. Phillip Carmelo	3 episodes
2013–2014	Betrayal	Thatcher Karsten	13 episodes
2014–2015	Murder in the First	Warren Daniels	10 episodes
2015	Halt and Catch Fire	Jacob Wheeler	8 episodes
2016	The Young Pope	Cardinal Michael Spencer	8 episodes
2017–2019	The Detour	J.R.	10 episodes
2017	Last Week Tonight with John Oliver	Albert B. Fall	Episode: "Sinclair Broadcast Group"
2018–2023	Succession	Ewan Roy	7 episodes
2018–2020	Big Hero 6: The Series	Robert Callaghan / Yokai	Voice, 2 episodes^[2]
2018–2019	Berlin Station	Gilbert Dorn	4 episodes
2018–2019	Counterpart	Yanek	6 episodes
2019	The Family	Douglas Coe	5 episodes
2020	Operation Buffalo	General "Cranky" Crankford	6 episodes
2022	Law & Order: Organized Crime	Miles Darman	2 episodes
2022	Julia	John McWilliams	Episode: "Boeuf Bourguignon"
2022	Star Trek: Lower Decks	Dr. Zefram Cochrane (voice)	Episode: "Grounded"
2024	Sugar	Jonathan Siegel	7 episodes

Television films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1976	Stranded	Jerry Holmes
1976	Once an Eagle	J. L. Cleghorne
1977	The Girl in the Empty Grave	Deputy Malcolm Rossiter Jr.
1977	Deadly Game	Deputy Malcolm Rossiter Jr.
1980	A Christmas Without Snow	Reverend Lohman
1981	Barefoot in the Park	Harry Pepper
1982	The Rainmaker	Noah Curry
1982	The Wall	Francisek
1984	Spraggue	Lieutenant Hurley
1984	Earthlings	Simon Games
1986	Dream West	Major General David Hunter
1987	Alison's Demise	Humboldt Hobson
1990	Miracle Landing	B.J. Cocker
1991	In a Child's Name	Official	Uncredited
1992	Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation	Mr. Skolnick
1999	A Slight Case of Murder	John Edgerson
1999	RKO 281	William Randolph Hearst
1994	Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love	Mr. Skolnick
1994	The Shaggy Dog	Charlie "The Robber" Mulvihill
1995	Indictment: The McMartin Trial	Judge Pounders
2002	A Death in the Family	Joel Lynch
2002	The Magnificent Ambersons	Major Amberson
2002	RFK	President Lyndon B. Johnson
2003	A Carol Christmas	The Ghost of Christmas Future	Uncredited
2006	Avenger	Paul Devereaux
2009	Strikeout	Director
2009	The Last Days of Lehman Brothers	Hank Paulson

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1970	Othello	Montano	Broadway revival
1992	Hamlet	Polonius	Broadway revival
2007	Long Day's Journey into Night	James Tyrone, Sr.	Druid Theatre
2012	Waiting for Godot	Pozzo	Center Theatre Group
2014	Rupert	Rupert Murdoch	Sydney Theatre Company
2019	Grand Horizons	Bill	Hayes Theater

References

^ "Nominees & Winners - 2013 Primetime Emmy Awards". Emmys.com. Retrieved November 1, 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c "James Cromwell (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved November 14, 2023. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its opening and/or closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information.
^ "James Cromwell shares details about 'Jurassic World' sequel". Ora TV. April 24, 2017. Retrieved April 26, 2017.
^ Melissa, Billie (2023-11-14). "Luke Wilson Is Bruce Wayne in Merry Little Batman". Men's Journal | Streaming. Retrieved 2023-11-14.
^ Flook, Ray (November 13, 2023). "Merry Little Batman: The Joker Teases a Trailer Drop for This Tuesday". bleedingcool.com. Retrieved November 14, 2023.