James Cromwell

Highest Rated:
100% Fail Safe (2000)
Lowest Rated:
6% Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987)
Birthday:
Jan 27, 1940
Birthplace:
Los Angeles, California, USA
Bio:
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 taciturn…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 6% - 100%
Number of Movies: 79
Box Office Since 2001: $1163.9M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2013 Still Mine
  • Actor
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2012 42% Hide Away (A Year in Mooring)
  • The Ancient Mariner
$29.6k
2012 Memorial Day
  • Actor
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2012 14% Soldiers of Fortune
  • Haussman
$38.8k
2012 Cowgirls n' Angels
  • Terence Parker
$0.1M
2012 Still
  • Actor
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2012 A Lonely Place for Dying
  • Howard Simon
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2011 98% The Artist
  • Clifton
$44.7M
2010 MindFlux
  • Actor
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2010 64% Secretariat
  • Ogden Phillips
$59.7M
2009 39% Surrogates
  • Older Canter
$38.5M
2009 Starz Inside: Unforgettably Evil
  • Actor
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2008 59% W.
  • George Herbert Walker Bush
$25.5M
2008 Tortured
  • Actor
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2008 Impact (MINI-SERIES)
  • Actor
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2007 Dante's Inferno
  • Virgil
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2007 63% Spider-Man 3
  • Captain Stacy
$336.5M
2007 91% Your Mommy Kills Animals
  • Actor
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2007 57% Becoming Jane
  • Reverend Austin
$18.6M
2006 97% The Queen
  • Prince Philip
$56.2M
2006 Avenger
  • Paul Devereaux
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2006 Avenger
  • Actor
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2006 91% King Leopold's Ghost
  • Narrator
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2006 Avenger
  • Actor
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2005 31% The Longest Yard
  • Warden Hazen
$158.0M
2005 Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
  • Actor
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2005 Pope John Paul II
  • Cardinal Adam Sapieha
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2005 93% Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
  • Actor
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2004 Salem's Lot
  • Father Donald Callahan
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2004 58% I, Robot
  • Dr. Alfred Lansing
$144.7M
2003 85% The Snow Walker
  • Shepherd
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2003 38% National Lampoon's Blackball
  • Ray Speight
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2002 59% The Sum of All Fears
  • President Fowler
$118.5M
2002 A Death in the Family
  • Joel Lynch
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2002 RFK
  • Lyndon Johnson
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2002 69% Spirit - Stallion of the Cimarron
  • The Colonel
$73.2M
2002 The Magnificent Ambersons
  • Actor
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2002 The Nazi
  • Actor
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2000 79% Space Cowboys
  • Bob Gerson
$89.4M
2000 100% Fail Safe
  • Gordon Knapp
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1999 9% The Bachelor
  • Priest
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1999 80% The Green Mile
  • Warden Hal Moores
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1999 92% RKO 281: The Battle Over Citizen Kane
  • William Randolph Hearst
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1999 A Slight Case of Murder
  • Actor
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1999 40% Snow Falling on Cedars
  • Judge Fielding
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1999 22% The General's Daughter
  • Gen. Joe Campbell
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1998 61% Babe: Pig in the City
  • Arthur Hoggett
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1998 9% Species II
  • Sen. Ross
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1998 47% Deep Impact
  • Allen Rittenhouse
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1997 Owd Bob
  • Adam MacAdam
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1997 59% The Education of Little Tree
  • Granpa
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1997 99% L.A. Confidential
  • Dudley Smith
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1996 36% Eraser
  • Donahue
  • Director
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1996 92% Star Trek - First Contact
  • Zefram Cochrane
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1996 87% The People Vs. Larry Flynt
  • Actor
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1995 98% Babe
  • Arthur Hoggett
  • Director
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1994 Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love
  • Actor
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1994 23% Romeo Is Bleeding
  • Cage
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1992 Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation
  • Mr. Skolnick
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1992 47% The Babe
  • Brother Mathias
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1989 17% Pink Cadillac
  • Motel Desk Clerk
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1989 Running Kind
  • Actor
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1988 The Rescue
  • Adm. Rothman
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1987 6% Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise
  • Mr. Skolnick
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1986 A Fine Mess
  • Detective Blist
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1985 78% Explorers
  • Mr. Muller
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1984 Spraggue "Murder for Two"
  • Actor
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1984 29% Oh, God! You Devil
  • Priest
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1984 Tank
  • Deputy Euclid
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1984 74% Revenge of the Nerds
  • Mr. Skolnick
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1983 74% The Man with Two Brains
  • Realtor
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1982 The Wall
  • Francisek
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1981 Nobody's Perfekt
  • Dr. Carson
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1980 A Christmas Without Snow
  • Reverend Lohman
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1978 50% The Cheap Detective
  • Schnell
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1977 The Girl in the Empty Grave (Abel)
  • Actor
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1976 Once an Eagle
  • Actor
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1976 69% Murder by Death
  • Marcel the chauffeur
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1943 92% The Seventh Victim
  • Actor
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Quotes from James Cromwell's Characters

    1. Dr. Alfred Lansing: That, Detective, is the right question.
    From I, Robot. Submitted by Andrew O (4 months ago)
    1. Dr. Alfred Lansing: One day they'll have secrets. One day they'll have dreams.
    From I, Robot. Submitted by Carlo Roy R (5 months ago)
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