James Cromwell
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Played Police captain George Stacy, Gwen Stacy's father, in Spider-Man 3.
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Career
Early career
His first television performance was in a 1974 episode of The Rockford Files playing Terry.[3] A few weeks later,[4] he had a brief recurring role as Stretch Cunningham on All in the Family. In 1975 he took his first lead role on television as Bill Lewis in the short-lived Hot L Baltimore, and a year later made his film debut in Neil Simon's classic detective spoof Murder by Death.
While he continued with regular television work for the rest of the 1980s, he made real inroads in movie business for his roles in the James Garner-Shirley Jones film Tank, as a corrupt deputy sheriff and his first appearance as Mr. Skolnick, father of main character Lewis in the comedy film Revenge of the Nerds. He would reprise this role three more times in each of the "Nerds" sequels.
1990s
His notable film roles in the 1990s include his Oscar nominated performance as Farmer Arthur Hoggett in Babe (1995) and Captain Dudley Liam Smith in Curtis Hanson's film adaptation of James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential (1997), which was a breakout role for him, and made him more bankable in Hollywood. He also played Dr. Zefram Cochrane in Star Trek: First Contact (1996) and the Star Trek: Enterprise pilot Broken Bow (the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "In a Mirror, Darkly" later reused some of the First Contact footage).[5] He has appeared on other Star Trek television series The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, though not as Cochrane (his appearances on these shows predated his role in First Contact), he guest starred in episodes including "The Hunted", "Birthright, Part I and II" and "Starship Down".
2000s
He co-starred in the last two seasons of the HBO drama series Six Feet Under, where he played George Sibley, Ruth Fisher's geologist husband and along with the rest of the his castmates, he was nominated for two consecutive Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2005 and 2006. He next co-starred alongside Dame Helen Mirren who plays the title role of Queen Elizabeth II and won the Oscar for Best Actress in Stephen Frears' film The Queen (2006) where he played Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He guest starred in the sixth season of 24 where he played Phillip Bauer, father of lead character Jack played by Kiefer Sutherland.
In early October 2007, he played the lead role of James Tyrone Sr. in the Druid Theatre Company's production of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, at the Gaiety in Dublin as part of the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival's 50th Anniversary.