January 27: Happy Birthday James Cromwell

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Towering (he’s about 6-7) character actor James Cromwell is turning 78 today. His father was stage and film director John Cromwell. Cromwell began acting in the mid-seventies with guest appearances on The Rockford Files and All in the Family, and made his film debut in Murder by Death in 1976. For roughly twenty years, his profile was that of a reliable supporting player—he got steady work on television and a variety of supporting roles in film, but not much that was really distinctive.

In the mid-nineties, Cromwell emerged as a major character actor. His breakout performance came as Farmer Arthur Hoggett in Babe, for which he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor. In the next few years he had roles in films such as Star Trek: First Contact (as Zefram Cochrane), Deep Impact, The Green Mile, and Snow Falling on Cedars. And also one other film that deserves a bit of special mention due to its presence in the current bracket game, in which he plays a highly bent police captain:



Since the turn of the century, Cromwell has done some more notable film work, with well-received performances in The Queen, The Artist, and Still Mine, but has found the greatest success on television. He has been nominated for four Emmys, two of them for guest appearances on ER and Six Feet Under, and the other two for miniseries; he won Outstanding Supporting Actor for his role on American Horror Story: Asylum, the second season of the anthology series.