# James Cromwell filmography

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 | 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 | |
| 1984 | Tank | Deputy Euclid Baker | |
| 1984 | Revenge of the Nerds | Mr. Skolnick | Credited as "Jamie Cromwell" |
| 1984 | 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 | |
| 1996 | The People vs. Larry Flynt | Charles Keating | |
| 1996 | 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 | |
| 1998 | Species II | Senator Judson Ross | |
| 1998 | Deep Impact | Alan Rittenhouse | |
| 1998 | Babe: Pig in the City | Farmer Arthur Hoggett | |
| 1999 | The General's Daughter | Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell | |
| 1999 | The Bachelor | Priest | |
| 1999 | The Green Mile | Warden Hal Moores | |
| 1999 | Snow Falling on Cedars | Judge Fielding | |
| 2000 | Space Cowboys | Bob Gerson | |
| 2002 | Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron | The Colonel | Voice |
| 2002 | The Sum of All Fears | President J. Robert Fowler | |
| 2002 | 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 | |
| 2007 | Becoming Jane | Reverend Austen | |
| 2007 | Spider-Man 3 | George Stacy | |
| 2008 | Hit Factor | Orson Fierce | |
| 2008 | Tortured | Jack | |
| 2008 | 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 | |
| 2012 | Memorial Day | Bud Vogel | |
| 2012 | Flying into Love | Lyndon B. Johnson | |
| 2012 | Still Mine | Craig Morrison | |
| 2012 | 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 | |
| 2020 | Emperor | John Brown | |
| 2022 | Prancer: A Christmas Tale | Bud Mcshane | |
| 2023 | Merry Little Batman | Alfred Pennyworth | Voice; direct-to-streaming film |
| 2024 | Rebel Ridge | Judge | |

## Television

| 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 | M*A*S*H | 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; Also Producer |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 | Holographic Zefram Cochrane (voice) | Episode: "Grounded" |
| 2024 | Sugar | Jonathan Siegel | 7 episodes |
| 2024 | Murder in a Small Town | George Wilcox | Episode: "The Suspect" |

### 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 1999 | A Slight Case of Murder | John Edgerson | |
| 1999 | RKO 281 | William Randolph Hearst | |
| 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 |