James Cromwell Filmography

Born:: January 27, 1940 in Los Angeles, CA
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Long-time character actor James Cromwell has spent much of his career on stage and television, only occasionally appearing in feature films until the early '90s, when his film work began to flourish. The tall, spare actor first became known to an international audience with his role as the...Read More

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Actors: Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks, James Cromwell, Ellen Burstyn, Thandie Newton, Richard Dreyfuss

Synopsis: Josh Brolin stars as George W. Bush in this Oliver Stone biopic that traces the head of state's rise to power from a privileged alcoholic to a born-again Christian whose belief in religious destiny helped move him to the top ranks of political power. Co-written by Stanley G. Weiser, Bush is Read More

10/17/08
Your Mommy Kills Animals

Actors: Katherine Heigl, Jessica Biel, Kaley Cuoco, Joss Stone, James Cromwell

Synopsis: At a time in history when the FBI has deemed animal-rights activists the number-one domestic terrorist threat to the U.S., filmmaker Curt Johnson sets out to explore exactly how an organization such as PETA can possibly take precedence over the threat posed by Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida in a Read More

7/20/07
Spider-Man 3

Actors: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco

Synopsis: Your friendly neighborhood web-slinger is back, only this time his sunny outlook has become partially overcast in the third chapter of director Sam Raimi's Spider-Man saga. Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, and James Franco return to reprise their roles from the previous two installments, with Thomas Haden Church Read More

5/4/07
Becoming Jane

Actors: Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters, James Cromwell, Maggie Smith

Synopsis: Events from the life of the author Jane Austen inspired this romantic historical drama, which speculates of a romance that may have had a significant impact on her life and work. Twenty-year-old Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway) is the daughter of Rev. Austen (James Cromwell), a minister who looks after Read More

3/9/07
24: Season 06

Actors: Jayne Atkinson, Powers Boothe, James Cromwell, Peter MacNicol, Rick Schroder, James Morrison, Marisol Nichols, Carlo Rota, Eric Balfour, Kiefer Sutherland, D.B. Woodside, Mary Lynn Rajskub

2007
Dante's Inferno

Actors: Dana Snyder, Dermot Mulroney, James Cromwell, John Fleck, Martha Plimpton

Synopsis: Director Sean Meredith's animated entry into the 2007 Newport Beach Film Festival details one man's curious voyage into the deepest depths of the underworld. Upon awakening in an unfamiliar part of the city after an especially rough night, Dante asks the first person he spots for a little help in Read More

2007
Masters of Science Fiction: Watchbird

Actors: Sean Astin, James Cromwell

2007
The Queen

Actors: Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Helen McCrory, Alex Jennings

Synopsis: The British prime minister and the Royal Family find themselves quietly at odds in the wake of a national tragedy in this drama from director Stephen Frears. On August 31, 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales died in an auto accident in Paris; despite the controversial breakup of her marriage to Prince Charles Read More

9/15/06
King Leopold's Ghost

Actors: Annick DeVille, Jean-Pierre Bemba, James Newman, Mbaya Mpoyi, Jacques Depelchin

Synopsis: Filmmakers Pippa Scott and Oreet Rees explore the reprehensible legacy of Belgium's King Leopold II in this documentary adaptation of Adam Hochschild's best-selling book. His envy growing as powerful neighbors France, England, and the Netherlands began claiming valuable African coastal land in Read More

8/18/06
Avenger

Actors: Sam Elliott, Timothy Hutton, James Cromwell, William Hope, David Hayman

Synopsis: Oscar nominated filmmaker Wolfgang Petersen executive produced this TNT/Warner Brothers co-production concerning a small-town lawyer and one-time Special Forces operative who embarks on a violent quest to avenge the brutal murder of his daughter, and soon finds his thirst for vengeance threatening Read More

2006
The Longest Yard

Actors: Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Burt Reynolds, Nelly, James Cromwell

Synopsis: One of the toughest and best-remembered sports movies of the 1970s gets a humorous makeover in this comedy. Paul "Wrecking" Crewe (Adam Sandler) was once a famous professional football player, but after several years out of the limelight and an alcohol problem have taken their toll, Crewe is Read More

5/27/05
National Lampoon's Blackball

Actors: Paul Kaye, James Cromwell, Alice Evans, Bernard Cribbins, Vince Vaughn

Synopsis: It's the weight of tradition versus youthful vigor when loudmouth Torquay lawn bowling superstar Cliff Starkey (Paul Kaye) catches wind of an upcoming championship match between England and heated rivals Australia. He's determined to make the national team in a bid to bring his sport-of-choice Read More

2/11/05
Pope John Paul II

Actors: Jon Voight, Cary Elwes, Ben Gazzara, Christopher Lee, Vittoria Belvedere

Synopsis: One of several dramatized tributes to the late pontiff to be telecast in 2005, the two-part CBS biopic Pope John Paul II is a remake of a popular Italian miniseries, and was filmed on location in Italy and Poland. The film begins with the attempted assassination of the pope on May 13, 1981 Read More

2005
Six Feet Under: Season 05

Actors: Michael C. Hall, Peter Krause, Rachel Griffiths, Lauren Ambrose, Frances Conroy, Mathew St. Patrick, Freddy Rodriguez

Synopsis: The Fisher clan suffers, suffers some more, and eventually begins to heal in the fifth and final season of HBO's Six Feet Under. As the season begins, Nate (Peter Krause) and Brenda (Rachel Griffiths) are finally ready to wed after four seasons of tumultuous courtship. But when Brenda miscarries Read More

2005
I, Robot

Actors: Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Alan Tudyk, Bruce Greenwood

Synopsis: Director Alex Proyas (Dark City, The Crow) helmed this sci-fi thriller inspired by the stories in Isaac Asimov's nine-story anthology of the same name. In the future presented in the film, humans have become exceedingly dependent on robots in their everyday lives. Robots have become more and more Read More

7/16/04
Salem's Lot

Actors: Rob Lowe, Andre Braugher, Donald Sutherland, Samantha Mathis, Rutger Hauer, James Cromwell

Synopsis: In this TV adaptation of the Stephen King novel, a journalist with traumatic memories of his haunted childhood returns to find his hometown being infiltrated by vampires. As a boy in Jerusalem's Lot, ME, Ben Mears (Rob Lowe) took a dare and broke into a local mansion called the Marsten House. Read More

2004
Six Feet Under: Season 04

Actors: Michael C. Hall, Peter Krause, Lauren Ambrose, Frances Conroy, Mathew St. Patrick

Synopsis: The mysterious death of Lisa Fisher (Lili Taylor) -- revealed in the third-season finale, "I'm Sorry, I'm Lost" -- casts a dark shadow across the entire fourth season of this critically acclaimed HBO drama. As funeral director Nate (Peter Krause) grapples with single parenthood and the aftermath Read More

2004
Six Feet Under: Season 03

Actors: Michael C. Hall, Mathew St. Patrick, Peter Krause, Lauren Ambrose, Frances Conroy

Synopsis: Love and death (and the problems they bring) remain the constants in the third season of the HBO drama series Six Feet Under. In season three, now that Federico (Freddy Rodriguez) has bought a 25 percent interest in the funeral home, the name changes from Fisher and Sons to Fisher and Diaz, and he Read More

2003
Angels in America

Actors: Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeffrey Wright, Justin Kirk, Patrick Wilson, Ben Shenkman

Synopsis: The epic HBO miniseries Angels in America is directed by Mike Nichols and written by the play's author, Tony Kushner. This six-part drama is adapted from the two full-length award-winning plays (Part I: The Millennium Approaches and Part II: Perestroika) originally performed on Broadway in 1993. Read More

2003
Six Feet Under: Twilight

Synopsis: Lisa (Lili Taylor) has been missing for two weeks, leaving Nate (Peter Krause) to stew and the rest of the family to slowly lose hope. Despite -- or perhaps because of -- her certainty that her daughter-in-law is dead, Ruth (Frances Conroy) plunges into a new romance with George Sibley (James Cromwell Read More

2003
The Snow Walker

Actors: Barry Pepper, Annabella Piugattuk, James Cromwell, Kiersten Warren, Jon Gries

Synopsis: Charles Martin Smith's romantic adventure film The Snow Walker concerns a brave risk-taking pilot (Barry Pepper) and an Inuit woman in frail health who is his passenger. When the pair experience a plane crash, each is forced to learn from and help the other in order to survive the variety of Read More

2003
The Sum of All Fears

Actors: Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Liev Schreiber, Alan Bates

Synopsis: The successful franchise of Paramount motion pictures based on novelist Tom Clancy's techno-thrillers featuring heroic CIA intelligence analyst Jack Ryan stages a much-publicized "do-over" with this action-adventure that recasts the character of Ryan as a rookie to the complex game of geopolitical Read More

5/31/02
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron

Actors: Matt Damon, James Cromwell, Daniel Studi

Synopsis: Screenwriter John Fusco returns to the Western themes of his previous films Young Guns and Thunderheart with this animated children's adventure from Dreamworks. Matt Damon supplies the voice of Spirit, a wild Mustang stallion living free in the Old West of the late 19th century, where he's Read More

5/24/02
RFK

Actors: Linus Roache, James Cromwell, David Paymer, Martin Donovan, Ving Rhames

Synopsis: The first biographical film produced by the FX cable channel, RFK covers the last five years in the life of Robert F. Kennedy, here played by British actor Linus Roache. The narrative begins in 1963, with the assassination of Bobby's brother, president John F. Kennedy (Martin Donovan). His Read More

2002
A Death in the Family

Synopsis: Adapted from James Agee's posthumously published, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Death in the Family is set in Knoxville, TN, in 1915. The death of husband and father Jay Follett (John Slattery) in a car accident has profound and long-reaching effects upon his wife, Mary (Annabeth Gish), and his Read More

2002
Citizen Baines [TV Series]

Actors: James Cromwell, Embeth Davidtz, Jane Adams, Jacinda Barrett, Paul McCrane

Synopsis: James Cromwell starred on this weekly, hour-long drama series as veteran politician Elliott Baines. After three successful terms as senator, Baines is cast adrift when a fourth-term bid comes a cropper. Knowing no other life but politics, the widowed Baines returns home to Seattle, there to Read More

2001
ER: The Crossing

Synopsis: Lourdes Benedicto makes her first series appearance as new pediatrics intern Rena Trujillo. The episode's pre-eminent crisis occurs at the site of a commuter-train accident, where Carter (Noah Wyle) and Kovac (Goran Visnjic) are forced to extreme measures to save the life of trapped firefighter Read More

2001
The Magnificent Ambersons

Actors: Madeleine Stowe, Bruce Greenwood, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Gretchen Mol, Jennifer Tilly

Synopsis: This lavish, cable-TV remake of Orson Welles' The Magnficent Ambersons endeavored to prove Welles right by adhering to his original screenplay, restoring several scenes which provided additional substance and significance to the story and deepened the characterizations. Set in Indianapolis at the Read More

2001
ER: Thy Will Be Done

Synopsis: Kovac (Goran Visnjic) again treats the stubborn Bishop Stewart (John Cromwell). Sixteen-year-old cardiac patient Nick Stevens (Josh Peck) balks at having another heart transplant. Another patient, a gay man named Jeff (Robert Beitzel), refuses to use contraceptives, and indeed seems eager and Read More

2001
ER: Rock, Paper, Scissors

Synopsis: While wrestling with her feelings regarding Kim Legaspi (Elizabeth Mitchell), Weaver (Laura Innes) delivers her evaluation of Carter (Noah Wyle). Elsewhere, Abby (Maura Tierney) angrily drops her AA sponsorship of Carter; Kynesha (Toy Connor) continues to be a source of trouble for Benton (Eriq La Salle Read More

2001
ER: A Walk in the Woods

Synopsis: Back from maternity leave, Chen (Ming-Na) returns to the ER just as the staff is confronting a somewhat startling case of the measles. In other developments, Benton (Eriq La Salle) offers to act as mentor for African-American medical student William White (Keith Robinson) -- until he finds out the Read More

2001
Space Cowboys

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, James Garner, James Cromwell, Marcia Gay Harden

Synopsis: In this adventure drama, four men passed over by the space program get one last chance to be heroes and live out their dreams. Frank Corvin (Clint Eastwood), Hawk Hawkins (Tommy Lee Jones), Jerry O'Neill (Donald Sutherland), and Tank Sullivan (James Garner) were top pilots within an elite Air Read More

8/4/00
Fail Safe

Actors: George Clooney, Noah Wyle, Richard Dreyfuss, Hank Azaria, Brian Dennehy

Synopsis: A seemingly-minor electronic error sets the world on the verge of nuclear annihilation in this made-for-TV adaptation of the novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler (which was previously filmed in 1964). Due to the burn-out of a piece of circuitry, a computer orders a U.S. Air Force jet on a Read More

2000
Snow Falling on Cedars

Actors: Ethan Hawke, James Cromwell, Richard Jenkins, James Rebhorn, Sam Shepard, Eric Thal, Max von Sydow, Youki Kudoh, Rick Yune

Synopsis: Nine years after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a small town in the Pacific Northwest still struggles with the troubling legacy of U.S. policies against Asian-Americans. In December 1950, just off the shores of San Piedro Island in Washington, a Japanese-American man named Kazuo Miyamoto (Rick Yune) Read More

12/22/99
The Green Mile

Actors: Tom Hanks, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, Michael Clarke Duncan, James Cromwell, Michael Jeter, Graham Greene, Gary Sinise

Synopsis: Director Frank Darabont, who made an acclaimed feature film debut with The Shawshank Redemption (1994), based on a Stephen King novel set in a prison, returns for a second feature, based on King's 1996 serialized novel set in a prison. In 1935, inmates at the Cold Mountain Correctional Facility Read More

12/10/99
The Bachelor

Actors: Chris O'Donnell, Renée Zellweger, Hal Holbrook, James Cromwell, Artie Lange

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, Chris O'Donnell plays Jimmie, the grandson of an eccentric millionaire. At the reading of his grandfather's will, Jimmie learns that he stands to inherit $100 million on his 30th birthday. There's only one stipulation: Jimmie has to be married to get the money. And he is Read More

11/5/99
The General's Daughter

Actors: John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell, Timothy Hutton, Leslie Stefanson, Daniel Von Bargen, Clarence Williams III, James Woods

Synopsis: A murder on a military base unearths a netherworld of corruption in this thriller based on the novel by Nelson DeMille. General Joe Campbell (James Cromwell) is a respected military leader with a flawless reputation; he's due to retire from the Army soon and is headed for a Vice-Presidential Read More

6/18/99
RKO 281

Actors: Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith, John Malkovich, Brenda Blethyn, Roy Scheider

Synopsis: When RKO Pictures began work on production number 281, no one could have imagined that they were making perhaps the greatest American film of all time. But the moment Orson Welles (played by Liev Schreiber) announced that he intended to make a film based on the life of tyranical multi-millionaire Read More

1999
A Slight Case of Murder

Actors: William H. Macy, Adam Arkin

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Donald E. Westlake, this seriocomic tale of murder and manipulation stars William H. Macy as nerdish but powerful movie critic Terry Thorpe. During an argument with his lover, Terry accidentally kills the woman, forcing him to go great lengths to cover up his crime. Read More

1999
Babe: Pig in the City

Actors: Magda Szubanski, James Cromwell, Mary Stein, Mickey Rooney, Julie Godfrey

Synopsis: The 1995 Academy award-winning film Babe was Australian-made and featured the latest in talking animal anima-tronics. It told the heart-warming story of a sheepherding pig named Babe and his rise to community fame. The film was a tremendous hit, both financially and critically. Babe: Pig in the Read More

11/25/98
Species II

Actors: Michael Madsen, Natasha Henstridge, Marg Helgenberger, Mykelti Williamson, George Dzundza

Synopsis: In the science-fiction thriller Species (1995), Natasha Hentsridge appeared as the beautiful but deadly Sil, a human-alien DNA combo. In this sequel, Hentsridge portrays Eve, a government experiment concocted to gain an understanding of how to combat future aliens, while Michael Madsen and Marg Helgenberger Read More

4/10/98
Deep Impact

Actors: Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Morgan Freeman, Leelee Sobieski

Synopsis: Mimi Leder (The Peacemaker) directed this science-fiction disaster drama about the possible extinction of human life after a comet is discovered headed toward Earth with the collision only one year away. Ambitious MSNBC reporter Jenny Lerner (Tea Leoni) stumbles onto the story, prompting a White Read More

1998
Owd Bob

Actors: James Cromwell, Colm Meaney

Synopsis: In this drama for the family, a young boy from the United States is sent to Ireland to live with his grandfather (James Cromwell) after the lad's parents are killed in an accident. Between learning to help out on the farm and adjusting to the slower pace of life in rural Ireland, the boy's new Read More

1997
L.A. Confidential

Actors: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, Kim Basinger, David Strathairn, Danny DeVito

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by James Ellroy, this award-winning crime drama explores both the dark side of the Los Angeles police force and Southern California's criminal underbelly in the early '50s, when Hollywood was still seen as America's capital of sophistication, glitter, and glamour. Read More

1997
The Education of Little Tree

Actors: James Cromwell, Tantoo Cardinal, Joseph Ashton, Graham Greene

Synopsis: Richard Friedenberg scripted and made his directorial debut with this adaptation of Forrest Carter's 1992 award-winning coming-of-age novel detailing the Depression-era boyhood of an orphaned Cherokee, eight-year-old Little Tree (Joseph Ashton). Raised and tutored by his grandparents (Tantoo Cardinal Read More

1997
Star Trek: First Contact

Actors: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn

Synopsis: The first "Trek" film to feature the cast of the Star Trek: The Next Generation TV series without any of the members of the original series, this action-packed hit was well received at the box office. The Federation comes under attack by its ongoing enemy, the Borg, a cybernetics-enhanced race Read More

1996
Eraser

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Caan, Vanessa Williams, James Coburn, Robert Pastorelli

Synopsis: Top-notch action sequences and exciting stunt work highlight this fast-moving thriller. John Kruger (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a top agent in the U.S. Marshalls' Witness Protection Program; it's his job to "erase" the pasts of Federal witnesses under his watch and deal with anyone who tries to Read More

1996
The People Vs. Larry Flynt

Actors: James Carville, Brett Harrelson, Burt Neuborne, Richard Paul, Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton, James Cromwell, Crispin Glover

Synopsis: "If the First Amendment will protect a scumbag like me, then it'll protect all of you -- 'cause I'm the worst," declares Hustler Magazine publisher Larry Flynt (as played by Woody Harrelson) in the midst of one of his many court cases. Milos Forman's film follows Flynt from his childhood in Read More

1996
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 79: Starship Down

Synopsis: Originally scheduled for November 6, 1995, this episode didn't make its syndicated debut until November 13. Written by David Mack and John J. Ordover, the episode gets off to a hectic start when the Defiant is engaged in battle with the Jem'Hadar. When the smokes clears, the crippled Read More

1995
Babe

Actors: James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski, Christine Cavanaugh, Miriam Margolyes, Danny Mann, Hugo Weaving

Synopsis: A young pig fights convention to become a sheep dog -- or, rather, sheep pig -- in this charming Australian family film, which became an unexpected international success due to superior special effects and an intelligent script. The title refers to the name bestowed on a piglet soon after his Read More

1995
Romeo Is Bleeding

Actors: Gary Oldman, Lena Olin, Annabella Sciorra, Juliette Lewis, Roy Scheider

Synopsis: New York cop Jack Grimaldi (Gary Oldman) has a nice home, a stunning wife Natalie (Annabella Sciorra), and a sweet, if stupid mistress, Sheri (Juliette Lewis). Jack also earns extra money by betraying mob witnesses to Mafia-boss Don Falcone (Roy Scheider). Assigned to guard the viciously sexy Read More

1994
Revenge of the Nerds 4: Nerds in Love

Actors: Curtis Armstrong

Synopsis: The silly spirit of Revenge of the Nerds lives on in this made-for-television sequel. Curtis Armstrong returns as Booger, and this time around the nerds are gathering for his wedding to a wealthy upper-class girl. As the nerds plan a wild bachelor party, the girl's father is busy hiring an Read More

1994
The Shaggy Dog

Actors: Ed Begley, Jr., Scott Weinger, Sharon Lawrence, Jon Polito, James Cromwell

Synopsis: In this television remake of Disney's zany feature, a teenager under a magic spell keeps turning into a sheepdog, much to his father's chagrin. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1994
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Birthright, Part I

Synopsis: Just in time for the February ratings "sweeps," Next Generation offered this two part episode. The story gets under way as Worf is told that his presumed-dead father is alive in a Romulan prison camp. Almost simultaneously, Data experiences his first-ever dream, which provides him with a Read More

1993
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Birthright, Part II

Synopsis: In the first part of this episode, Worf and Data both embarked on strange journeys in search of their respective fathers. In part two, Data has already returned to the Enterprise, having discovered the source of the bizarre dreams which spurred his quest. Meanwhile, Worf is captured and Read More

1993
The Babe

Actors: John Goodman, Kelly McGillis, Trini Alvarado, Bruce Boxleitner, Peter Donat

Synopsis: John Goodman is cast as the Sultan of Swat, whose excesses -- especially drinking -- and private demons can (in this context) be excused in view of his genuine love of baseball. The facts never get in the way of a good story for screenwriter John Fusco; we're even offered the umpteenth rehash of Read More

4/17/92