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), Jurassic World: The Fallen Kingdom (2018), 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.
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 Schnell 1981 Nobody's Perfekt Dr. Carson 1982 Born to the Wind Fish Belly 1983 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 Detective Blist Chief Bludhorn 1987 Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise Mr. Skolnick 1988 The Rescue Admiral Rothman 1989 The Runnin' Kind Unknown Pink Cadillac Motel Desk Clerk 1992 Brother Mathias 1993 Romeo Is Bleeding Cage 1995 Babe Farmer Arthur Hoggett 1996 Eraser William Donohue Charles Keating Star Trek: First Contact Dr. Zefram Cochrane 1997 L.A. Confidential Captain Dudley Smith 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 Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell Priest Warden Hal Moores Snow Falling on Cedars Judge Fielding 2000 Space Cowboys Bob Gerson 2002 Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron The Colonel Voice 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 credits or other reliable sources of information. President J. Robert Fowler Franz 2003 Blackball Ray Speight Walter Shepherd 2004 I, Robot Dr. Alfred Lanning 2005 Warden Rudolph Hazen 2006 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 Howard Simons Surrogates Dr. Lionel Canter 2010 Secretariat Ogden Phipps 2011 Admissions The Clerk 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 2016 The Promise Henry Morgenthau Sr. 2017 Marshall Judge Foster 2018 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Benjamin Lockwood 2019 The Laundromat Joseph David "Joe" Martin 2020 Never Too Late Jack Bronson Emperor John Brown2022Prancer: A Christmas TaleBud Mcshane2023Merry Little BatmanAlfred PennyworthVoice; direct-to-streaming film 2024 Rebel Ridge Judge
Television
Year Title Role Notes 1974 Terry Episode: "The Countess" All in the Family Stretch Cunningham 3 episodes Maude Alfie Episode: "Last Tango in Tuckahoe" 1975 Hot l Baltimore Bill Lewis 13 episodes 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" M*A*S*H Captain Leo Bardonaro Episode: "Last Laugh" Three's Company Detective Lannigan Episode: "Chrissy's Night Out" 1977–1981 Barney Miller Various 4 episodes 1978 Maude Dr. Farrington Episode: "The Obscene Phone Call" Alice Detective Ralph Hilton Episode: "Who Ordered the Hot Turkey?" 1979 Barney Miller Neil Spencer Episode: "Strip Joint" Flatbush Sonny Episode: "Kar Kannibals" Eight Is Enough Coach Pollard Episode: "The Better Part of Valor" Diff'rent Strokes Father O'Brien Episode: "Arnold's Hero" Mr. Hamilton Episode: "Mainstream" 1980 Flo Leon Episode: "Homecoming" Art Cummings Episode: "The Death of Me Yet" Little House on the Prairie Harve Miller Episode: "Laura Ingalls Wilder: Part 1 & 2" 1981 Barney Miller Jason Parrish Episode: "Liquidation" 1982 Nurse Paul Moore Episode: "A Place to Die" Father Murphy Farley Webster 2 episodes 1984 Buffalo Bill Staunton McMoller Episode: "Jerry Lewis Week" Gimme a Break! Russell Cosgrove Episode: "Class of '84" 1984–1985 Dallas Gerald Kane 3 episodes 1985 Night Court Alan Episode: "Nuts About Hurry" Family Ties John Hancock Episode: "Philadelphia Story" Riptide Joey Dietz Episode: "Girls Night Out" Hardcastle and McCormick Jake Fellows Episode: "Undercover McCormick" Knight Rider Curtis Episode: "Ten Wheel Trouble" Wildside Fake Buffalo Bill Episode: "Buffalo Who?" Hill Street Blues Lowenhandler Episode: "Grin and Bear It" Hunter Seymour Robbins Episode: "Sniper" 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" Mr. Belvedere Roy Gallagher Episode: "Fat Cats" 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" Matlock Judge Raymond Price Episode: "Nowhere to Turn" 1990–1993 Star Trek: The Next Generation Prime Minister Nayrok / Jaglom Shrek 3 episodes 1991 Jacob Episode: "Peacemakers" Jake and the Fatman Havilland Episode: "It Never Entered My Mind" 1994 L.A. Law Attorney Hutton Episode: "McKenzie, Brackman, Barnum and Bailey" Home Improvement Fred Episode: "My Dinner with Wilson" 1995Renegade Jeremy Silimen Episode: Stalker's MoonPicket Fences The Bishop Episode: "Saint Zach" Hawkeye Longsworth Episode: "The Visit" Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Hanok Episode: "Starship Down" 1995–1996 Partners Mr. Saxonhouse 2 episodes 1996 Strange Luck Minister Episode: "Healing Hands" The Client Officer Joe Denton Episode: "The High Ground" 2001 ER Bishop Stewart 4 episodes Star Trek: Enterprise Dr. Zefram Cochrane 2 episodes Citizen Baines Senator Elliot Baines 7 episodes; Also Producer 2003 Angels in America Henry 2 episodes 2003–2005 Six Feet Under George Sibley 26 episodes 2004 President D. Wire Newman Episode: "The Stormy Present" Salem's Lot Father Donald Callahan 2 episodes 2005 Pope John Paul II Cardinal Adam Stefan Sapieha 2007 24 Phillip Bauer 8 episodes 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 Pope Pius XII 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 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 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 Julia John McWilliams Episode: "Boeuf Bourguignon" Star Trek: Lower Decks Holographic Zefram Cochrane (voice) Episode: "Grounded" 2024 Sugar Jonathan Siegel 7 episodes Murder in a Small Town George Wilcox Episode: "The Suspect" 2025Bat-FamAlfred Pennyworth (voice)Main role
Television films Year Title Role Notes 1976 Stranded Jerry Holmes Once an Eagle J. L. Cleghorne 1977 Deputy Malcolm Rossiter Jr. Deadly Game Deputy Malcolm Rossiter Jr. 1980 A Christmas Without Snow Reverend Lohman 1981 Barefoot in the Park Harry Pepper 1982 Noah Curry Francisek 1984 Spraggue Lieutenant Hurley 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 1994 Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love Mr. Skolnick The Shaggy Dog Charlie "The Robber" Mulvihill 1995 Indictment: The McMartin Trial Judge Pounders 1999 John Edgerson RKO 281 William Randolph Hearst 2002 Joel Lynch The Magnificent Ambersons Major Amberson RFK President Lyndon B. Johnson 2003 A Carol Christmas The Ghost of Christmas Future Uncredited 2006 Avenger Paul Devereaux 2009 Strikeout Director 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
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See also List of awards and nominations received by James Cromwell