James Cromwell

At 84 years old, James Cromwell has this physical status:

James Oliver Cromwell (born January 27, 1940) is an American actor.

Babe (1995), Star Trek: First Contact (1996), Los Angeles. Some of his finest films include Babe (1995), and First Contact (1996). Confidential (1997), The Green Mile (1999), The Sum of All Fears (2000), The Artist (2006), The Longest Yard (2004), The King (2006), The Secretariat 6 (2014), and Marshall (2016), Asylum (1999), The Young Pope (2010), The Young Pope (2015), The Young Pope (2016), Succession (2018–2019), The Young Pope (2015), The Green Mile (2001–2024) Cromwell has been nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards and four Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Babe (1995).

He received a Primetime Emmy Award for his role in Asylum (2012) and a Canadian Screen Award for his role in Still Mine (2013).

Early life and education

Cromwell was born in Los Angeles, California. He is the son of actor Kay Johnson (1904-1955) and actor and producer John Cromwell (1886–1979), who was blacklisted during the McCarthy period. In 1946, his parents separated. He has ancestry from England, German, Irish, and Scotland. He graduated from The Hill School in 1958 and moved to Middlebury College and Carnegie Mellon University, where he majored in theater before leaving the academy. He began his acting training at HB Studio in New York City. He was attracted to the theater, from Shakespeare to experimental plays, as his parents.

Personal life

Ann Ulvestad was married by Cromwell in 1977. In 1986, the couple divorced. Kate, John, and Colin were the couple's three children together. Julie Cobb married Cromwell on May 29, 1986; the couple divorced in 2005. Anna Stuart, a former actor of Stuart's ex Another World co-star Charles Keating, married him on January 1, 2014. Cromwell lives in Warwick, New York.

Cromwell is known for his height; at 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m), he is the highest actor nominated for an Academy Award. His son John is even taller, standing 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m). In the 2012 film Memorial Day, John played the young Bud Vogel, while James played him as a grandfather, and both Cromwells appear as the same character at different ages in American Horror Story: Asylum (2012) and the first season of Betrayal (2013).

Cromwell's experiences of the Civil Rights Movement while on a theatre tour through several Deep South states in 1964 had a huge influence on him. Cromwell, a devoted student in Mississippi who was assassinated with two of his colleagues in 1964, convinced him to become an activist due to the courage of local campaigners and visiting activists. Cromwell later became involved in the anti-Vietnam War, and by the late 1960s, he was a member of the Committee to Defend the Panthers, a group formed to protect 13 Black Panther Party members detained in New York on suspicion of conspiracy. The 13 children were eventually released. Cromwell praised the Panthers in a CNN interview in 2004. In the 2016 United States presidential race, Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign was boosted by him.

Cromwell has long been a promoter of social justice, particularly regarding animal rights. After discovering a stockyard in Texas and being overwhelmed with the "smell, terror, and fear," he became a vegetarian in 1974. In the 1995 film Babe, he became vegan while playing Farmer Hoggett. He speaks out on animal rights for PETA, mainly on pig welfare. He was arrested in 2017 after a PETA protest against SeaWorld's treatment of orca whales, in which he spoke about marine mammals' suffering and premature deaths.

In the book Money Men, author Jeffrey Birnbaum explains how John McCain went out of his way to visit Cromwell as he advocated for Native American arts education in Capitol Hill.

Cromwell appeared as the narrator of the short film Farm to Fridge, a Mercy for Animals documentary.

Cromwell sluggishly attacked the Republican Party and the George W. Bush administration in an interview in October 2008, saying that their foreign policy will "either destroy us or the entire planet."

Cromwell was arrested in February 2013 along with animal rights campaigner Jeremy Beckham for disrupting a University of Wisconsin Board of Regents meeting while holding a graphic image of a cat to protest suspected mistreatment of animals on campus. The case, which attracted extensive media coverage, was settled on March 25, 2013, when an attorney representing Cromwell entered no-contest pleas to the non-criminal charge and agreed to pay $100 forfeitures and court costs of $263.50. He was banned from an event in New York in December 2015 for heckling an energy company for which he had been nominated. Cromwell and five others were arrested on December 18, 2015, near his home in Warwick, New York, where they were arrested. He and his fellow protesters, the "Wawayanda Six," were found guilty of disorderly conduct and traffic obstruction. They were fined $375, postponed to 16 hours of community service on June 29, 2017. Since refusing to pay the fine, he was sentenced to a week in jail, with a possible date of July 14. However, they were released three days later on July 17. On June 6, 2016, 19 people were arrested in Watkins Glen, New York, including Cromwell and fellow Star Trek actor J. G. Hertzler, as part of a demonstration against underground gas storage in salt caverns near Seneca Lake. After disrupting the gathering by protesting the power station, he was led out of a Democratic Party fundraiser (which New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi attended) on June 6, 2017. After participating in a demonstration with PETA at Seaworld on July 24, Cromwell was arrested again, this time for trespassing.

Jeremy Beckham, 34-year-old animal rights campaigner, was arrested on October 31, 2019. They were charged with disorderly conduct after police said they disrupted a meeting of the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents. The two people were both protesting A&M's use of dogs for medical research as part of a demonstration organized by People for Ethical Treatment of Animals. Both were released after releasing $5,000 bonds.

Cromwell glued his hand on the counter of a Manhattan Starbucks counter to protest the surcharge of plant-based milks.

The documentary Imminent Threat, a Cromwell executive, produced an article in 2015 focusing on the War on Terror's effects on civil rights.

Mondo Hollywoodland, a psychedelic thriller produced by Janek Ambros, who also produced Imminent Threat in 2021, was produced by Cromwell executive Mondo Hollywoodland in 2021.

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Career

In 1974's episode of The Rockford Files, Cromwell's first television appearance was as Terry, a tennis coach. Stretch Cunningham on All in the Family began a few weeks later. In 1975, he appeared in Bill Lewis' short-lived Hot l Baltimore as Captain Leo Bardonaro, and he appeared on M*A*S*H as Captain Leo Bardonaro in the episode "Last Laugh" on M*A*S*H. He made his film debut in Murder by Death, Neil Simon's classic detective spoof Murder by Death a year later. In four episodes of Barney Miller (1977-1981), Cromwell portrayed four main characters. He appeared in "Chrissy's Night Out" as Detective Lannigan in 1977.

Cromwell appeared in the two-part episode "Laura Ingalls Wilder" of the long-running television show Little House on the Prairie in 1980. Harve Miller, one of Almanzo Wilder's old friends, appeared on the program.

Although Cromwell continued with regular television work in the 1980s, he made appearances in films with supporting roles in Tank and Revenge of the Nerds (both 1984). He guest appeared on the sitcom Night Court as a mental patient alongside Kevin Peter Hall. In 1990, his Star Trek appearance was on "The Hunted," which was followed by the 1993 episode "Birthright, Part 1" as Jaglom Shrek. He appeared in Babe (1995), The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), The Education of Little Tree (1998), Los Angeles. The Green Mile (1999), The General's Daughter (1999), and Snowfall on Cedars (1999). In Star Trek: First Contact (1996), the Star Trek: Enterprise pilot episode "Broken Bow"), and the 2022 Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 3 premiere episode, "Grounded," he appeared. Some of the First Contact video clips were reused in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "In a Mirror, Darkly." In the episode "Starship Down" as Hanok, he appeared on another Star Trek role. In DreamWorks' Spirit: The Colonel, Stallion of the Cimarron, he also spoke about him.

Cromwell's role as newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst in RKO 281 received him an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Television Film. He received his second Emmy Award nomination for his role as Bishop Lionel Stewart on the NBC medical drama series ER. In the West Wing episode "The Stormy Present" from 2004, he guest-starred as former President D. Wire Newman. Cromwell appeared George Sibley in HBO's Six Feet Under, earning him his third Emmy Award nomination in 2003. In 2005 and 2006, he was also nominated for two Screen Actor Guild Awards for Best Ensemble in a Drama Series alongside the rest of his castmates. In The Queen (2006), Cromwell played Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who received Helen Mirren an Academy Award for Best Actress. In the sixth season of Fox thriller drama series 24 in which Phillip Bauer, father of lead character Jack, appeared also.

In October 2007, Cromwell appeared in the Druid Theatre Company's production of Eugene O'Neill's Journey Into Night at the Gaiety in Dublin as part of the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival's 50th Anniversary. He received the King Vidor Memorial Award from the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival for his film debuts in 2011. In Oliver Stone's W. (2008), Cromwell chronicled Bush's rise to power well before the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In the Disney film Big Hero 6, Cromwell also played the main villain, Professor Robert Callaghan/Yokai.

Cromwell appeared in HBO's series The Young Pope with Jude Law and Diane Keaton in 2016. He appeared in HBO's Succession and Starz' Counterpart in 2018.

Cromwell appeared in the Australian comedy-drama film Never Too Late in 2020. Cromwell appeared in Operation Buffalo, an Australian television comedy-drama series about the atomic bomb trials in outback Australia, which aired on ABC from 31 May 2020.

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