James Cromwell is an Academy Award-nominated American television and film actor.

He began work in television in the mid-1970s in the movie All in the Family. Cromwell starred as a series regular in the last two seasons of the HBO original series Six Feet Under. Other notable roles include his Academy Award nominated performance as farmer Arthur Hoggett in Babe (1995) and Dr. Zefram Cochrane in Star Trek: First Contact (1996) (the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "In a Mirror, Darkly”. He has appeared on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He portrayed Bishop Lionel Stewart in several episodes of ER (2001), U.S. President Robert "Bob" Fowler in The Sum of All Fears (2002) and the role of former President D. Wire Newman in an episode of The West Wing (2004). He played Dr. Alfred Lanning, creator of modern robots and inventor of the Three Laws of Robotics in the 2004 movie I, Robot. He also recently appeared as the warden in the remake of The Longest Yard . He is set to appear in the upcoming sixth season of the television show 24 in the role of Phillip Bauer, father to main character Jack Bauer played by Kiefer Sutherland.

Public Name: James Cromwell
Birth Name: James Cromwell
Date of Birth: January 27, 1940
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California

Filmography

• Spider-Man 3 (2007)
• "Masters of Science Fiction" (1 episode) (2007)
• Becoming Jane (2007)
• The Queen (2006)
• Avenger (2006)
• Dante's Inferno (2006)
• Pope John Paul II (2005)
• "Six Feet Under" (27 episodes, 2003-2005)
• The Longest Yard (2005)
• I, Robot (2004)
• 'Salem's Lot (2004)
• "The West Wing" (1 episode, 2004)
• "Angels in America" (2003)
• The Snow Walker (2003)
• Blackball (2003)
• RFK (2002)
• The Nazi (2002)
• The Sum of All Fears (2002)
• Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)
• The Magnificent Ambersons (2002)
• A Death in the Family (2002)
• Twist of Fate (2002)
• "Citizen Baines" (2001)
• "Enterprise" (1 episode, 2001)
• "ER" (4 episodes, 2001)
• Great Bear Rainforest (2001)
• Space Cowboys (2000)
• Fail Safe (2000)
• The Green Mile (1999)
• RKO 281 (1999)
• The Bachelor (1999)
• A Slight Case of Murder (1999)
• Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)
• The General's Daughter (1999)
• Babe: Pig in the City (1998)
• Deep Impact (1998)
• Species II (1998)
• The Education of Little Tree (1997)
• L.A. Confidential (1997)
• Owd Bob (1997)
• Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
• The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
• Eraser (1996)
• "The Client" (1 episode, 1996)
• "Partners" (2 episodes, 1995-1996)
• "Strange Luck" (1 episode, 1996)
• "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1 episode, 1995)
• Babe (1995)
• "Hawkeye" (2 episodes, 1995)
• Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995)
• "Picket Fences" (1 episode, 1995)
• "Renegade" (1 episode, 1995)
• "Home Improvement" (1 episode, 1994)
• The Shaggy Dog (1994)
• Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love (1994)
• Romeo Is Bleeding (1993)
• "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (3 episodes, 1990-1993)
• Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation (1992)
• The Babe (1992)
• In a Child's Name (1991)
• "Jake and the Fatman" (1 episode, 1991)
• "The Young Riders" (1 episode, 1991)
• "Matlock" (1 episode, 1990)
• Miracle Landing (1990)
• "Life Goes On" (1 episode, 1990)
• "Christine Cromwell" (1 episode, 1989)
• Pink Cadillac (1989)
• The Runnin' Kind (1989)
• Christine Cromwell: Things That Go Bump in the Night (1989)
• "Mama's Boy" (1988)
• "Mr. Belvedere" (1 episode, 1988)
• The Rescue (1988)
• "China Beach" (1 episode, 1988)
• China Beach (1988)
• Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987)
• Alison's Demise (1987)
• "Easy Street" (1 episode, 1986-1987)
• A Fine Mess (1986)
• "Dream West" (1986)
• "The Last Precinct" (1986)
• "Scarecrow and Mrs. King" (2 episodes, 1985-1986)
• "Amazing Stories" (1 episode, 1986)
• "The Twilight Zone" (segment "A Message from Charity") (1 episode, 1985)
• Explorers (1985)
• "Hunter" (1 episode, 1985)
• "Hill Street Blues" (1 episode, 1985)
• "Wildside" (1 episode, 1985)
• "Knight Rider" (1 episode, 1985)
• "Hardcastle and McCormick" (1 episode, 1985)
• "Riptide"  (1 episode, 1985)
• "Dallas" (3 episodes, 1984-1985)
• "Night Court" (1 episode, 1985)
• "Family Ties" (1 episode, 1985)
• Oh, God! You Devil (1984)
• Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
• Earthlings (1984)
• Spraggue (1984)
• "Gimme a Break!" (1 episode, 1984)
• Tank (1984)
• "Buffalo Bill" (1 episode, 1984)
• The House of God (1984)
• The Man with Two Brains (1983)
• "Father Murphy" (2 episodes, 1982)
• "Born to the Wind" (1982)
• "Diff'rent Strokes" (2 episodes, 1979-1982)
• The Wall (1982)
• The Rainmaker (1982)
• "Barney Miller" (4 episodes, 1977-1981)
• Nobody's Perfekt (1981)
• Barefoot in the Park (1981)
• A Christmas Without Snow (1980)
• "Little House on the Prairie" (2 episodes, 1980)
• "Flo" (1 episode, 1980)
• "The White Shadow" (2 episodes, 1979-1980)
• "Eight Is Enough" (1 episode, 1979)
• "Alice" (1 episode, 1978)
• The Cheap Detective (1978)
• "Maude" (2 episodes, 1974-1978)
• Deadly Game (1977)
• "Three's Company" (1 episode, 1977)
• "M*A*S*H" (1 episode, 1977)
• The Girl in the Empty Grave (1977)
• "Police Story" (1 episode, 1977)
• "Once an Eagle" (1976)
• "The Nancy Walker Show" (1976)
• "Insight" (1 episode, 1976)
• Murder by Death (1976)
• Stranded (1976)
• "Barbary Coast" (1 episode, 1975)
• "Hot L Baltimore" (1975)
• "All in the Family" (3 episodes, 1974)
• "The Rockford Files" (1 episode, 1974)