James Cromwell

James Cromwell, for me, lives in two registers at once. He is the gentle farmer who sang to a pig in Babe, yet he can turn unsettling and menacing in projects like Six Feet Under, and that range is the whole point of a great character actor. His Carnegie Mellon stage training shows in how effortlessly he moves between voice work, blockbuster supporting turns, and intimate drama. An Emmy winner born in 1940 and still working, still willing to put himself on the line for his convictions, he is exactly the kind of weathered, principled performer I find impossible not to admire.

Name (English)

James Cromwell

Name (Japanese)

ジェームズ・クロムウェル

Reading

じぇーむず・くろむうぇる

Born

January 27, 1940 (age 86)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Dragon

Origin

Los Angeles, California, United States

Height

79 cm

Occupation

television actor / film actor / character actor / stage actor / voice actor

University

Carnegie Mellon University

Awards & achievements

• 2013 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AD%E3%83%A0%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB

Tags

• California
• television actor
• film actor
• character actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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