James Cromwell
Actor
James Oliver Cromwell is an American film and television actor, probably best known for his role as Dr. Zefram Cochrane in Star Trek: First Contact. He has been nominated for an Oscar, three Emmy Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards during his career.
Cromwell was born in Los Angeles, California and was raised in Manhattan, New York. He was adopted by actress Kay Johnson and actor, director and producer John Cromwell, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. He was educated at The Hill School, Middlebury College and Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), where he studied engineering. Like both his parents, he was drawn to the theater, doing everything from Shakespeare to experimental plays.
He has long been an advocate of leftist causes. In an October 2008 interview, he strongly attacked the Republican Party and the George W. Bush administration, saying their controversial foreign policy would "either destroy us or the ... Show more...
James Oliver Cromwell is an American film and television actor, probably best known for his role as Dr. Zefram Cochrane in Star Trek: First Contact. He has been nominated for an Oscar, three Emmy Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards during his career.
Cromwell was born in Los Angeles, California and was raised in Manhattan, New York. He was adopted by actress Kay Johnson and actor, director and producer John Cromwell, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. He was educated at The Hill School, Middlebury College and Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), where he studied engineering. Like both his parents, he was drawn to the theater, doing everything from Shakespeare to experimental plays.
He has long been an advocate of leftist causes. In an October 2008 interview, he strongly attacked the Republican Party and the George W. Bush administration, saying their controversial foreign policy would "either destroy us or the entire planet." He became a vegetarian in 1974 after seeing a stockyard in Texas and experiencing the "smell, terror and anxiety." He became an ethical vegan while playing the character of Farmer Hoggett in the movie Babe in 1995. He frequently speaks out on issues regarding animal cruelty for PETA, largely the treatment of pigs.
Cromwell was married to Anne Ulvestad from 1976 to 1986. They had three children. He married his second wife, Julie Cobb, on 29 May 1986. Show less...
Filmography - Acting
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Never Too Late (2020)
As: Jack Bronson
It has been a long time since Caine, Bronson, Angus and Wendell, AKA, ‘The Chain Breakers,’ escaped the torturous Vietnamese POW camp. They now find themselves sharing a new prison, The Hogan Hills Retirement Home for Returned Veterans. Each of the boys has an unrealised dream they want to achieve. So they band together to devise a plan to escape this new hell. But the rules of engagement have changed, ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Mark Lamprell
Stars: Shane Jacobson | James Cromwell | Jacki Weaver | Jack Thompson | Dennis Waterman
Emperor (2020)
As: John Brown
An escaped slave travels north and has chance encounters with Frederick Douglass and John Brown. Based on the life story of Shields Green.
Directed by: Mark Amin
Stars: James Cromwell | Kat Graham | Bruce Dern | Dayo Okeniyi | Ben Robson
The Immortal (2019)
As: Grandfather
If you had the chance to live forever, would you take it? A man who wants to overcome death learns the secret of immortality, but comes to regret his decision when he discovers that eventually, everything dies - everything except him.
Runtime: 15 min.
Directed by: Carl Firth
Stars: James Cromwell | Maeve Dermody | Guy Edmonds
The Laundromat (2019)
As: Joseph David Martin
When her idyllic vacation takes an unthinkable turn, Ellen Martin begins investigating a fake insurance policy, only to find herself down a rabbit hole of questionable dealings that can be linked to a Panama City law firm and its vested interest in helping the world's wealthiest citizens amass larger fortunes.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: Gary Oldman | Antonio Banderas | Meryl Streep | Melissa Rauch | Jeffrey Wright
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
As: Benjamin Lockwood
Several years after the demise of Jurassic World, a volcanic eruption threatens the remaining dinosaurs on the island of Isla Nublar. Claire Dearing, the former park manager and founder of the Dinosaur Protection Group, recruits Owen Grady to help prevent the extinction of the dinosaurs once again.
Runtime: 128 min.
Directed by: Juan Antonio Bayona
Stars: Rafe Spall | Bryce Dallas Howard | Justice Smith | Chris Pratt | Daniella Pineda
Marshall (2017)
As: The Judge
Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Reginald Hudlin
Stars: Josh Gad | James Cromwell | Kate Hudson | Sterling K. Brown | Chadwick Boseman
50 Years of Star Trek (2016)
As: himself
Over the last fifty years, America has been fascinated by Star Trek since it first aired in September of 1966. This 2-hour documentary celebrates the 50th anniversary through interviews with cast and crew members from every television series and the original films.
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: Ian Roumain
Stars: Michael McKean | Kevin Pollak | Leonard Nimoy | Nichelle Nichols | Jeri Ryan
The Promise (2016)
As: Henry Morgenthau Sr.
Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, a love triangle develops between Mikael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated artist Ana, and Chris, a renowned American journalist based in Paris.
Runtime: 133 min.
Directed by: Terry George
Stars: Christian Bale | Oscar Isaac | Daniel Giménez Cacho | Tom Hollander | Charlotte Le Bon
Night Vet (2015)
As: Dr. Abel Evergood
A woman brings her dog to an all-night animal hospital never realizing that it is she who will be healed.
Runtime: 25 min.
Directed by: Julie Cobb
Stars: James Cromwell | Joanna Cassidy | Rob Beddall
Big Hero 6 (2014)
As: Professor Robert Callaghan (voice)
The special bond that develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax, and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Don Hall | Chris Williams
Stars: Scott Adsit | T.J. Miller | Jamie Chung | Daniel Henney | Ryan Potter
The Trials of Cate McCall (2013)
As: Justice Sumpter
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Karen Moncrieff
Stars: Nick Nolte | James Cromwell | Mark Pellegrino | Kate Beckinsale | Anna Anissimova
Still Mine (2012)
As: Craig Morrison
An elderly couple fight against local authorities in rural New Brunswick to build their final home.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Michael McGowan
Stars: James Cromwell | Geneviève Bujold | Campbell Scott | Rick Roberts | Julie Stewart
Soldiers of Fortune (2012)
As: Haussman
Wealthy thrill-seekers pay huge premiums to have themselves inserted into military adventures, only this time things don't go exactly to plan.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Maksim Korostyshevsky
Stars: Ving Rhames | Colm Meaney | Charlie Bewley | Christian Slater | Freddy Rodríguez
Cowgirls n' Angels (2012)
As: Terence Parker
A group of rodeo trick-riders recruits a young girl to join them.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Timothy Armstrong
Stars: Andrew Sensenig | Alicia Witt | James Cromwell | Jackson Rathbone | Bailee Madison
Hide Away (2012)
As: The Ancient Mariner
A successful businessman attempting to resurrect his life buys and boards a dilapidated sailboat.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Chris Eyre
Stars: Josh Lucas | Jon Tenney | James Cromwell | Casey LaBow | Ayelet Zurer
A Night at the Movies: Hollywood Goes to Washington (2012)
As: Himself
A survey of movies about politics, with clips from several films and interviews with filmmakers and actors.
Runtime: 58 min.
Directed by: Laurent Bouzereau
Stars: Illeana Douglas | Rob Reiner | James Carville | Rod Lurie | Bob Gale
The Artist (2011)
As: Clifton
Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Michel Hazanavicius
Stars: Bérénice Bejo | James Cromwell | Jean Dujardin | John Goodman | Penelope Ann Miller
Memorial Day (2011)
As: Bud Vogel
Memorial Day, 1993. When 13-year-old Kyle Vogel discovers the World War II footlocker belonging to his grandfather, Bud, everyone tells Kyle to put it back. Luckily, he ignores them. Although Bud has never talked about the war, he finds himself striking a deal with his grandson: Kyle can pick any three souvenirs, and Bud will tell him the stories behind each one. Memorial Day not only takes us on a journey ...
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Sam Fischer
Stars: James Cromwell | Emily Fradenburgh | Jackson Bond | Jonathan Bennett | Punnavith Koy
Farm to Fridge (2011)
As: Narrator
Narrated by Academy Award nominee James Cromwell, this powerful film takes viewers on an eye-opening exploration behind the closed doors of the nations largest industrial poultry, pig, dairy, and fish farms, hatcheries, and slaughter plants - revealing the often-unseen journey that animals make from Farm to Fridge. Using arresting images covertly recorded on hidden camera, this provocative film puts into ...
Runtime: 12 min.
Directed by: Lee Iovino
Stars: James Cromwell
Pope Pius XII (2010)
As: Pope Pius XII
Rome, 1943. The city is occupied by the Nazis. The lives of thousands of Jews are in danger, and in Vatican City, a neutral state within the borders of Rome, Pope Pius XII is struggling to save the city from hunger and destruction.
Runtime: 200 min.
Directed by: Christian Duguay
Stars: James Cromwell | Ken Duken | Mathias Herrmann | Elena Arvigo | Alessandra Mastronardi
Secretariat (2010)
As: Ogden Phipps
Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. Against all odds, Chenery - with the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin - manages to navigate the male-dominated business, ultimately fostering the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years.
Runtime: 123 min.
Directed by: Randall Wallace
Stars: John Malkovich | Diane Lane | Dylan Walsh | Scott Glenn | Fred Dalton Thompson
Beyond All Boundaries (2009)
As: Major General Alexander A. Vandegrift / Fleet Admiral William Halsey
A visual, 4-D experience of the battles of World War II featuring stories, archival footage and advanced special effects.
Directed by: David Briggs
Stars: Patricia Clarkson | James Cromwell | Kevin Connolly | Kevin Bacon | Corbin Bleu
Surrogates (2009)
As: Dr. Lionel Canter
Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Jonathan Mostow
Stars: Rosamund Pike | Ving Rhames | Bruce Willis | James Cromwell | Radha Mitchell
The Last Days of Lehman Brothers (2009)
As: Hank Paulson
The heads of Wall Street's biggest investment banks were summoned to an evening meeting by the US Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson, to discuss the plight of another - Lehman Brothers. After six months' turmoil in the world's financial markets, Lehman Brothers was on life support and the government was about to pull the plug. Lehman CEO, Dick Fuld, recently sidelined in a boardroom coup, ...
Runtime: 60 min.
Directed by: Michael Samuels
Stars: Corey Johnson | James Cromwell | James Bolam | Michael Brandon | David Annen
Unforgettably Evil (2009)
As: Himself
Documentary about evil heroes
Directed by: Sebastian Bauer
Stars: William Fichtner | Bruce Greenwood | Tobin Bell | James Cromwell | David Carradine
A Lonely Place for Dying (2009)
As: Howard Simons
In 1972, the conflict in Vietnam continues. The creeping threat of communism grips the nation in fear. In an abandoned prison on the US/Mexican border, KGB mole Nikolai Dzerzhinsky waits for his contact from the Washington Post. He holds explosive evidence against the CIA, information he will trade for asylum in the United States. Special Agent Robert Harper's orders are clear: take the documents ...
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Justin Eugene Evans
Stars: James Cromwell | Ross Marquand | Michael Wincott | Luis Robledo | Michael Scovotti
W. (2008)
As: George Herbert Walker Bush
Whether you love him or hate him, there is no question that George W. Bush is one of the most controversial public figures in recent memory. W takes viewers through Bush’s eventful life -- his struggles and triumphs, how he found both his wife and his faith, and of course the critical days leading up to Bush’s decision to invade Iraq.
Runtime: 129 min.
Directed by: Oliver Stone
Stars: Ellen Burstyn | Toby Jones | Ioan Gruffudd | Elizabeth Banks | Josh Brolin
Tortured (2008)
As: Jack
A mobster orders an undercover FBI agent to torture an accountant.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Nolan Lebovitz
Stars: Laurence Fishburne | James Cromwell | Kevin Pollak | Cole Hauser | Emmanuelle Chriqui
Becoming Jane (2007)
As: Mr. Austen
A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Julian Jarrold
Stars: Anne Hathaway | Maggie Smith | James Cromwell | James McAvoy | Julie Walters
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
As: Captain Stacey
The seemingly invincible Spider-Man goes up against an all-new crop of villains – including the shape-shifting Sandman. While Spider-Man’s superpowers are altered by an alien organism, his alter ego, Peter Parker, deals with nemesis Eddie Brock and also gets caught up in a love triangle.
Runtime: 139 min.
Directed by: Sam Raimi
Stars: Topher Grace | James Franco | Thomas Haden Church | Tobey Maguire | Kirsten Dunst
Dante's Inferno (2007)
As: Virgil (voice)
A darkly comedic travelogue of the underworld - set against an all-too-familiar urban backdrop of used car lots, gated communities, strip malls, and the U.S. Capitol. And populated with a contemporary cast of reprobates, including famous - and infamous - politicians, presidents, popes, pimps. And the Prince of Darkness himself.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Sean Meredith
Stars: Martha Plimpton | James Cromwell | Olivia d'Abo | Dermot Mulroney | Tony Abatemarco
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird (2006)
As: Himself
An appreciation and the story of the making of 'The Maltese Falcon'.
Runtime: 32 min.
Directed by: Gary Leva
Stars: Peter Bogdanovich | Larry Cohen | Eric Lax | Rudy Behlmer | Michael B. Druxman
The Queen (2006)
As: Prince Philip
The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an overt display of mourning.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Stephen Frears
Stars: Helen Mirren | James Cromwell | Michael Sheen | Helen McCrory | Alex Jennings
King Leopold's Ghost (2006)
Based on Adam Hochschild's critically acclaimed international bestseller King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, the documentary centers on the atrocities that are still happening everyday in the Congo as a result of King Leopold II of Belgium's rule and the development of one of the world’s first human rights movements.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Pippa Scott | Oreet Rees
Stars: James Cromwell | Don Cheadle | Alfre Woodard | Philippe Bergeron | Frank McCourt
Avenger (2006)
As: Paul Devereaux
After his own daughter was killed in Panama in 1994, former CIA agent Calvin Dexter became a private 'specialist' in cases which wouldn't reach justice trough the regular legal channels. Two years later he accepts to find Richard 'Ricky' Edmunds for his pa, influential rich businessman Stephen Edmonds. Ricky for a private Canadian war victims charity in Bosnia and went missing. Dexter discovers Ricky was ...
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Robert Markowitz
Stars: Sam Elliott | Timothy Hutton | James Cromwell | William Hope | David Hayman
Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy (2005)
As: Narrator
Documentary about the great 1940s horror movie producer Val Lewton, featured on the 2005 DVD release "The Val Lewton Horror Collection."
Runtime: 53 min.
Directed by: Constantine Nasr
Stars: James Cromwell | Joe Dante | William Friedkin | Steve Haberman | Steve Jones
The Longest Yard (2005)
As: Warden Hazen
Pro quarter-back, Paul Crewe and former college champion and coach, Nate Scarboro are doing time in the same prison. Asked to put together a team of inmates to take on the guards, Crewe enlists the help of Scarboro to coach the inmates to victory in a football game 'fixed' to turn out quite another way.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Peter Segal
Stars: William Fichtner | Terry Crews | Adam Sandler | Chris Rock | Burt Reynolds
I, Robot (2004)
As: Dr. Alfred Lanning
In 2035, where robots are common-place and abide by the three laws of robotics, a techno-phobic cop investigates an apparent suicide. Suspecting that a robot may be responsible for the death, his investigation leads him to believe that humanity may be in danger.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Alex Proyas
Stars: Bruce Greenwood | Bridget Moynahan | James Cromwell | Alan Tudyk | Will Smith
A Carol Christmas (2003)
As: Ghost of Christmas Future (uncredited)
A Carol Christmas follows the basic plot of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, but the story has been modernized. The traditional "Scrooge" character is a talk show host named Carol.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Matthew Irmas
Stars: Michael Landes | William Shatner | Gary Coleman | Dinah Manoff | Tori Spelling
Blackball (2003)
As: Ray Speight
Blackball follows the fortunes of Cliff Starkey, a working-class fine of lawn bowls with an exceptional talent. Wanting to take on the Aussies he manages to become regional champion, only to get banned. Sports agent Rich Schwartz picks him up and makes him so popular the Bowls Committee deem to lift the ban. Now the question is whether he can regain his form and his friends to beat the Aussies.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Mel Smith
Stars: James Cromwell | Paul Kaye | Alice Evans | Bernard Cribbins | Johnny Vegas
The John Garfield Story (2003)
As: Self
This documentary, aired on the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) cable network, looks at the life and career of John Garfield, whose career was cut short when he died at age 39. His difficult childhood in the rough neighborhoods of New York City provided the perfect background for the tough-guy roles he would play on both stage and screen.
Runtime: 58 min.
Directed by: David Heeley
Stars: Julie Garfield | Phoebe Brand | Ellen Adler | Joseph Bernard | Michael Coppola
The Snow Walker (2003)
As: Walter "Shep" Shepherd
A bush pilot in nothern Canada who with the aid of modernity thinks he can handle it all & knows it all. After reluctantly agreeing to transport a local indian girl to a medical facility his light plane crashes & they have to survive whilst finding their way back to civilization. Along the journey the man finds a new respect for the native ways as they battle to survive the elements.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Charles Martin Smith
Stars: Barry Pepper | Jon Gries | James Cromwell | Kiersten Warren | Annabella Piugattuk
The Sum of All Fears (2002)
As: President Robert Bob Fowler
When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to supply insight and advice on the situation. Then the unthinkable happens: a nuclear bomb explodes in a U.S. city, and America is quick to blame the Russians.
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Phil Alden Robinson
Stars: Morgan Freeman | Bridget Moynahan | Liev Schreiber | James Cromwell | Ben Affleck
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)
As: The Colonel (voice)
As a wild stallion travels across the frontiers of the Old West, he befriends a young human and finds true love with a mare.
Runtime: 83 min.
Directed by: Lorna Cook | Kelly Asbury
Stars: Matt Damon | James Cromwell | Richard McGonagle | Charles Napier | Robert Cait
Project Viper (2002)
As: MP 1
Project Viper is a 2002 movie starring Patrick Muldoon, Theresa Russell, Curtis Armstrong, Tamara Davies. The movie was directed by Jim Wynorski under the pseudonym "Jay Andrews." When a terrifying, bioengineered lifeform is stolen from its creator, the military calls on a covert troubleshooter to destroy it before it decimates a small town in its path, and then the rest of the world. The space shuttle ...
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Jim Wynorski
Stars: Patrick Muldoon | James Cromwell | Theresa Russell | John Beck | Curtis Armstrong
RFK (2002)
As: President Lyndon Baines Johnson
Following the death of his brother John, Robert Kennedy is forced to rise to the challenge of leading his country and carrying on his brother's vision of what America could be.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Robert Dornhelm
Stars: Ving Rhames | James Cromwell | Martin Donovan | David Paymer | Linus Roache
A Death in the Family (2002)
As: Joel Lynch
A young wife's religious faith is shaken when her husband dies in a car accident.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Gilbert Cates
Stars: James Cromwell | Annabeth Gish | John Slattery | Austin Wolff
Raptor (2001)
As: Benny
When a series of unexplained vicious animal attacks strikes his community, Sheriff Jim Tanner and his assistant Barbara trace them back to a Dr. Hyde, a former military researcher whose government funding for a dinosaur cloning project was cut. When the Pentagon discovers Hyde obtained foreign backing to continue his experiments, they send in a strike team to save Tanner and Barbara and stop Hyde.
Runtime: 81 min.
Directed by: Jim Wynorski
Stars: Eric Roberts | Corbin Bernsen | Melissa Brasselle | Harrison Page | Tim Abell
Space Cowboys (2000)
As: Bob Gerson
Frank Corvin, ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and ‘Tank’ Sullivan were hotdog members of Project Daedalus, the Air Force's test program for space travel, but their hopes were dashed in 1958 with the formation of NASA and the use of trained chimps. They blackmail their way into orbit when Russia's mysterious ‘Ikon’ communications satellite's orbit begins to degrade and threatens to crash to Earth.
Runtime: 130 min.
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Stars: James Cromwell | Tommy Lee Jones | Donald Sutherland | James Garner | Clint Eastwood
Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile (2000)
As: Himself / Warden Hal Moores
Frank Darabont explains how this new project was introduced thru a phone call from Stephen King as "another prison tale" if he was interested to make it, the answer was not, King expose his concept idea in few words, however Frank asking to Stephen send the script to him firstly, when the first tale was finished and sent to Darabont, after reading such odd story, asking for more, so King replied "You ...
Runtime: 11 min.
Directed by: Constantine Nasr
Stars: Tom Hanks | James Cromwell | Michael Jeter | David Valdes | Spunk
Fail Safe (2000)
As: Gordon Knapp
Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Stephen Frears
Stars: Sam Elliott | Brian Dennehy | Richard Dreyfuss | Noah Wyle | Walter Cronkite
Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)
As: Judge Fielding
A Japanese-American fisherman may have killed his neighbor Carl at sea. In the 1950s, race figures in the trial. So does reporter Ishmael.
Runtime: 127 min.
Directed by: Scott Hicks
Stars: Reeve Carney | Rick Yune | Ethan Hawke | Anne Suzuki | Youki Kudoh
The Green Mile (1999)
As: Warden Hal Moores
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cellblock's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.
Runtime: 189 min.
Directed by: Frank Darabont
Stars: David Morse | Tom Hanks | Michael Clarke Duncan | James Cromwell | Bonnie Hunt
RKO 281 (1999)
As: William Randolph Hearst
A film about the making of Citizen Kane. Orson Welles produces his greatest film, Citizen Kane, despite the opposition of the film's de facto subject, William Randolph Hearst.
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Benjamin Ross
Stars: John Malkovich | Liev Schreiber | James Cromwell | Liam Cunningham | Melanie Griffith
The Bachelor (1999)
As: The Priest
Jimmie is seeing his single friends get married one by one. He isn't too worried until his girlfriend Anne catches the bouquet at his friend Marco's wedding. Suddenly, his wild mustang days are numbered. He finally decides to propose to her, but he sticks his foot in his mouth and botches the proposal. Being insulted by the defeatist proposal, Anne leaves town on an assignment. After she's gone, he finds ...
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Gary Sinyor
Stars: Renée Zellweger | Brooke Shields | Chris O'Donnell | Hal Holbrook | Ed Asner
A Slight Case of Murder (1999)
As: John Edgarson
In the midst of a spat, film critic Terry Thorpe (William H. Macy) accidentally kills his lover. Though Thorpe covers his tracks, he raises the suspicions of a private investigator (James Cromwell), who then tries to blackmail him. Thorpe also falls under the watchful eye of Detective Fred Stapelli (Adam Arkin), a cop who is intent on becoming a screenwriter. Before long, Thorpe's girlfriend, Kit (Felicity ...
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Steven Schachter
Stars: William H. Macy | James Cromwell | Adam Arkin | Felicity Huffman | Julia Campbell
The General's Daughter (1999)
As: Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell
When the body of Army Capt. Elizabeth Campbell is found on a Georgia military base, two investigators, Warrant Officers Paul Brenner and Sara Sunhill, are ordered to solve her murder. What they uncover is anything but clear-cut. Unseemly details emerge about Campbell's life, leading to allegations of a possible military coverup of her death and the involvement of her father, Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell.
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Simon West
Stars: Timothy Hutton | James Cromwell | Madeleine Stowe | John Travolta | Leslie Stefanson
Babe: Pig in the City (1998)
As: Farmer Arthur Hoggett
Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: George Miller
Stars: Magda Szubanski | James Cromwell | Mickey Rooney | Mary Stein | E.G. Daily
Deep Impact (1998)
As: Alan Rittenhouse
A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian crew into space to destroy the comet before impact. Meanwhile, an enterprising reporter uses her smarts to uncover the scoop of the century.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Mimi Leder
Stars: Morgan Freeman | Elijah Wood | Vanessa Redgrave | Robert Duvall | Téa Leoni
Species II (1998)
As: Senator Judson Ross
Having just returned from a mission to Mars, Commander Ross isn't exactly himself. He's slowly becoming a terrifying alien entity with one goal -- to procreate with human women! When countless women suffer gruesome deaths after bearing half-alien offspring, scientist Laura Baker and hired assassin Press Lennox use Eve, a more tempered alien clone, to find Ross and his brood. Before long Eve escapes to mate ...
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Peter Medak
Stars: Mykelti Williamson | Michael Madsen | George Dzundza | Natasha Henstridge | Marg Helgenberger
Owd Bob (1998)
As: Adam MacAdam
Recently orphaned David must move to the Isle of Man to live with his grandfather, Adam, who's a sheep farmer. Both long for the end of the summer, having nothing in common but their love for dogs, notably Adam's precious champion sheepdog Bob. David strikes a friendship with Maggie, the sassy daughter of friendly neighbor Keith Moore, but Adam hates that family on account of an old canine ...
Runtime: 105 min.
Stars: Colm Meaney | James Cromwell | Jemima Rooper | Dylan Provencher
The Education of Little Tree (1997)
As: Nonno
Little Tree is an 8-year-old Cherokee boy, who, during the time of the depression, loses his parents and starts to live with his Indian grandma and grandpa and learn the wisdom of the Cherokee way of life.
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Richard Friedenberg
Stars: James Cromwell | Graham Greene | Tantoo Cardinal | Joseph Ashton
L.A. Confidential (1997)
As: Dudley Smith
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
Runtime: 138 min.
Directed by: Curtis Hanson
Stars: Kevin Spacey | Russell Crowe | James Cromwell | Guy Pearce | Kim Basinger
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
As: Dr. Zefram Cochrane
The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth. Violating orders to stay away from the battle, Captain Picard and the crew of the newly-commissioned USS Enterprise E pursue the Borg back in time to prevent the invaders from changing Federation history and assimilating the galaxy.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Jonathan Frakes
Stars: Brent Spiner | Jonathan Frakes | Patrick Stewart | LeVar Burton | Michael Dorn
The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
As: Charles Keating
Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his girlie magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for all people.
Runtime: 129 min.
Directed by: Miloš Forman
Stars: Edward Norton | Courtney Love | Woody Harrelson | Donna Hanover | Brett Harrelson
Eraser (1996)
As: William Donohue
U.S. Marshall John Kruger erases the identities of people enrolled in the Witness Protection Program. His current assignment is to protect Lee Cullen, who's uncovered evidence that the weapons manufacturer she works for has been selling to terrorist groups. When Kruger discovers that there's a corrupt agent within the program, he must guard his own life while trying to protect Lee's.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Chuck Russell
Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger | James Caan | James Coburn | Robert Pastorelli | Vanessa Williams
Babe (1995)
As: Farmer Arthur Hoggett
Babe is a little pig who doesn't quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdinand the duck who thinks he is a rooster and Fly the dog he calls mom, Babe realizes that he has the makings to become the greatest sheep pig of all time, and Farmer Hogget knows it. With the help of the sheep dogs Babe learns that a pig can be anything that he wants to be.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Chris Noonan
Stars: Hugo Weaving | Danny Mann | Miriam Margolyes | Christine Cavanaugh | Miriam Flynn
Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995)
As: Judge Pounders
The McMartin family's lives are turned upside down when they are accused of serious child molestation. The family run a school for infants. An unqualified child cruelty "expert" videotapes the children describing outrageous stories of abuse. One of the most expensive and long running trails in US legal history, exposes the lack of evidence and unprofessional attitudes of the finger pointers which ...
Runtime: 131 min.
Directed by: Mick Jackson
Stars: James Woods | Henry Thomas | Lolita Davidovich | Mercedes Ruehl | Sada Thompson
The Shaggy Dog (1994)
As: Charlie
Preteen Moochie Daniels just wants a dog, but his dad, Daniel, is allergic to canines, like Bundles, the shabby sheep dog of neighbor Charlie Mulvihill who secretly trained his pet to help him steal jewels. Mooch's big brother Wilbert 'Wilby' is smart, shy and a promising inventor, but hopelessly clumsy when it comes to girls, and is jealous of his slick mate Trey who has no problems. Desperate Wilby ...
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Dennis Dugan
Stars: James Cromwell | Jon Polito | Ed Begley Jr. | Scott Weinger | Sharon Lawrence
Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds In Love (1994)
As: Mr. Skolnick
Lewis and his nerdy friends attend Booger's wedding to the daughter of a rich politician, but nerd-haters in the family do everything possible to prevent the wedding going ahead. Meanwhile, Lewis awaits with eagerness the birth of his unborn foetal child...
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Steve Zacharias
Stars: Robert Carradine | Julia Montgomery | Curtis Armstrong | Ted McGinley | Corinne Bohrer
Romeo is Bleeding (1994)
As: Cage
A corrupt cop gets in over his head when he tries to assassinate a beautiful Russian hit-woman.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Peter Medak
Stars: Gary Oldman | Lena Olin | Juliette Lewis | Annabella Sciorra | Roy Scheider
The Babe (1992)
As: Brother Mathias
A chronicle of Babe Ruth's phenomenal story--from his hard knock beginnings at a Baltimore orphanage, to his meteoric rise to baseball superstardom and his poignant retirement from the game. His amazing career included seven American League pennants, four World Series championships, two tempestuous marriages and a wild lifestyle that earned him numerous suspensions.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Arthur Hiller
Stars: James Cromwell | Kelly McGillis | John Goodman | Trini Alvarado | Randy Steinmeyer
Miracle Landing (1990)
As: B.J Cocker
Cracks are noticed in the ceiling of an aircraft. They widen & a large portion of the fuselage tears off & an emergency landing attempted. Based on actual events.
Runtime: 85 min.
Directed by: Dick Lowry
Stars: James Cromwell | Nancy Kwan | Connie Sellecca | Wayne Rogers | Ana Alicia
The Runnin' Kind (1989)
As: Uncle Phil
An Ohio teen moves to L.A. to find fame as a rock musician and to find a drummer.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Max Tash
Stars: David Packer | Brie Howard | Kenneth Tigar | Larry Cox | Steven Eckholdt
Pink Cadillac (1989)
Clint Eastwood plays a bounty hunter who helps out the wife of a bail-jumper after her child is kidnapped by neo-Nazi types.
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Buddy Van Horn
Stars: Jim Carrey | Timothy Carhart | Clint Eastwood | Bernadette Peters | Tiffany Gail Robinson
The Rescue (1988)
As: Adm. Rothman
A team of Navy Seals are sent to destroy a disabled submarine so it will not fall into the "wrong" hands. They complete their mission, but are captured before they can return to their base. The U.S. Government will not mount a rescue mission to free the soldiers, so their teenage children take over. The kids find a way to venture into the foreign country and then must overcome many obstacles.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Ferdinand Fairfax
Stars: James Cromwell | Edward Albert | Kevin Dillon | Christine Harnos | Marc Price
Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987)
As: Mr. Skolnick
The members of the Lambda Lambda Lambda fraternity travel to Fort Lauderdale for a fraternity conference. They'll have to beat off the attacks of their rival frat, the Alphas, if they want to maintain their self-respect -- and, of course, if they want to get anywhere with the pretty girls!
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Joe Roth
Stars: Robert Carradine | Timothy Busfield | Anthony Edwards | Larry B. Scott | Courtney Thorne-Smith
A Fine Mess (1986)
As: Detective Blist
Two friends an actor and a chef discover a plot to fix a horse race and try to capitalize on it. But also have to deal with the two men who fixed it who are trying to silence them. And there's also the mob boss whom the two guys work for who planned the fixing thing whose wife is having an affair with the actor.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Blake Edwards
Stars: Ted Danson | Howie Mandel | Stuart Margolin | Richard Mulligan | María Conchita Alonso
Explorers (1985)
As: Mr. Müller
The visionary dreams of three curious and adventuresome young boys become an exciting reality in Explorers, the action-fantasy from director Joe Dante, who combines keen humor, warmth and fantasy with unexpected twists. In their makeshift laboratory, the boys use an amazing discovery and their ingenuity to build their own spaceship and launch themselves on a fantastic interplanetary journey.
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Joe Dante
Stars: Ethan Hawke | River Phoenix | Jason Presson | Amanda Peterson | Bobby Fite
Oh, God! You Devil (1984)
As: Priest
George Burns is back as God, but oops, here he is as Satan, too. A young rock star is ready to sell his soul to Satan, and Satan is all too happy to oblige. Oops! Seems the fellow was watched over by God as a baby, so now the almighty and his nemesis have to duke it out over the soul. Written by Steve Derby
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Paul Bogart
Stars: James Cromwell | Ron Silver | George Burns | Roxanne Hart | Ted Wass
Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
As: Mr. Skolnick
At Adams College, the jocks rule the school from their house on high, the Alpha Beta fraternity. So when a group of socially-challenged misfits try to go Greek, they're instantly rejected by every house on campus. Deciding to start their own fraternity to protect their outcast brothers, the campus nerds soon find themselves in a battle royale as the Alpha Betas try to crush their new rivals.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Jeff Kanew
Stars: Robert Carradine | Timothy Busfield | Anthony Edwards | Curtis Armstrong | Andrew Cassese
Tank (1984)
As: Deputy Euclid Baker
After relocating his family - and his prized restored Sherman tank - to a small Georgia town, Sargeant Major Zack Carey (James Garner) butts heads with the local sheriff. Zack doesn't agree with the ways of the local police, and when the sheriff goes after Zack's son (C. Thomas Howell), it's time for Zack to roll out the Sherman tank and wage a little war of his own.
Runtime: 113 min.
Directed by: Marvin J. Chomsky
Stars: C. Thomas Howell | Sandy Ward | James Garner | Shirley Jones | Mark Herrier
The House of God (1984)
As: Officer Quick
Comedy about a couple of interns in a hospital named 'The House of God'.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Donald Wrye
Stars: Charles Haid | Bess Armstrong | Michael Sacks | Tim Matheson | Lisa Pelikan
The Man with Two Brains (1983)
As: Realtor
A story about a brain surgeon who tries to end his unhappy marriage to spend more time with a disembodied brain.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Carl Reiner
Stars: Steve Martin | David Warner | Kathleen Turner | Paul Benedict | Richard Brestoff
The Rainmaker (1982)
As: Noah Curry
The Rainmaker is a made for TV movie starring Tommy Lee Jones
Runtime: 135 min.
Directed by: John Frankenheimer
Stars: William Katt | James Cromwell | Tommy Lee Jones | Tuesday Weld | Lonny Chapman
Barefoot In the Park (1982)
As: Harry Pepper
HBO Standing Room Only presentation of the 1981 stage revival. From the Neil Simon Book. New Yorkers Paul Bratter and Corie Bratter née Banks have just gotten married. He is a stuffed shirt just starting his career as a lawyer. She is an independently minded free spirit who prides herself on doing the illogical purely out of a sense of adventure
Runtime: 127 min.
Directed by: Harvey Medlinsky
Stars: James Cromwell | Barbara Barrie | Bess Armstrong | Hans Conried | Richard Thomas
The Wall (1982)
As: Francisek
A dramatic re-enactment of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish uprising in April 1943 were 650 armed members of the Jewish Fighting Organization of Poland held off a 3,000 strong Nazi force in which only a handful of Jews survived. Tom Conti plays Dolek Berson, a Jewish smuggler who joins the resistance movement and is aided on the Aryan side of the wall by a former teacher named Regina Kowalski played by ...
Runtime: 135 min.
Directed by: Robert Markowitz
Stars: Tom Conti | Lisa Eichhorn | Rachel Roberts | Philip Sterling | Gerald Hiken
Nobody's Perfekt (1981)
As: Dr. Carson
While everyone knows you can't fight City Hall, there are those who, for whatever reason, can't resist the challenge. Three slightly disturbed psychiatric patients decide to take on the government. What ensues includes car chases, a ferry boat hijacking, strip-teases and lots of fun!
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Peter Bonerz
Stars: James Cromwell | Robert Klein | Alex Rocco | Susan Clark | Gabe Kaplan
A Christmas Without Snow (1980)
As: Reverend Lohman
A divorced woman (Michael Learned) moves to San Francisco from Omaha with her young son. She's trying to re-build her life after her divorce, she leaves her son with his grandmother. She joins the choir of a local church. She has some issues with the choirmaster (John Houseman) who tries to get the choir into shape before the Christmas concert. The choir overcome some personal stebacks as they all deal ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: John Korty
Stars: James Cromwell | Michael Learned | John Houseman | Valerie Curtin | Ramon Bieri
Peeping Times (1978)
As: Bernard Mantee
Peeping Times is a comedy special that aired on NBC on January 25, 1978. Co-produced, written and directed by Rudy De Luca and Barry Levinson, the special featured an early broadcast network appearance of David Letterman. David Frost was co-executive producer. The show was a spoof of TV news magazine programs.
Runtime: 60 min.
Directed by: Rudy De Luca | Barry Levinson
Stars: Alan Oppenheimer | David Letterman | Ron Carey | Lee Delano | Murphy Dunne
Deadly Game (1977)
As: Deputy Malcom Rossiter Jr.
A military convoy is transporting something apparently for disposal. They pass by Sheriff Abel Marsh's town and they are passing by property that's owned by Amy Franklin who is the girlfriend of Abel's deputy, Malcolm. Before they know it, everything around the property is uninhabitable. The army returns to clean things up and make restitution. But there is one nagging question, was this an accident or was ...
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Lane Slate
Stars: James Cromwell | Claude Earl Jones | Andy Griffith | Mitzi Hoag | Sharon Spelman
The Girl in the Empty Grave (1977)
As: Deputy Malcolm Rossiter Jr.
The police chief of a small town begins an investigation after a young woman, who was supposed to have died several months previously, shows up at the funeral of her parents, who had been murdered. (IMDB)
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Lou Antonio
Stars: James Cromwell | Jonathan Banks | Claude Earl Jones | Andy Griffith | Mitzi Hoag
Murder by Death (1976)
As: Marcel Cassette
Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Robert Moore
Stars: Maggie Smith | Peter Falk | Alec Guinness | Peter Sellers | David Niven
Daddy Long Legs (1955)
As: Extra (uncredited)
Wealthy American Jervis Pendleton III (Fred Astaire) has a chance encounter at a French orphanage with a cheerful 18-year-old resident, Julie Andre (Leslie Caron). He anonymously pays for her education at a New England college. She writes letters to her mysterious benefactor regularly, but he never writes back. Her nickname for him, "Daddy Long Legs", is taken from the description of him given to Andre ...
Runtime: 126 min.
Directed by: Jean Negulesco
Stars: Fred Astaire | Fred Clark | Thelma Ritter | Terry Moore | Leslie Caron
Rebel Ridge ()
An ex-marine takes on a group of dirty cops.
Directed by: Jeremy Saulnier
Stars: Don Johnson | James Cromwell | James Badge Dale | John Boyega | Zsané Jhé