Celebrity Biographies
James Cromwell
He is one of the most requested actors in Hollywood, as he gives entity to characters that occupy few lines of the script. You can tell that he is a stature actor, and not just because he is 1.90. His face was already familiar to moviegoers because of his illustrious supporting roles, when he established himself as the farmer in Babe, the Brave Little Pig , a role for which he earned an Oscar nomination as a supporting actor.
He was destined for the cinema, since he comes from a family that had made history in the Seventh Art. His mother From him Kay Johnson was involved in mythical films such as The Jungle in Arms and The Call of the Wild . For his part, his father, the American John Cromwell ( Anna and the King of Siam ) was one of the pioneers who brought British cinema forward along with David Lean , Carol Reed and Alfred Hithcock. Although he was from Ohio and she was from New York, James was born when they were installed in Los Angeles, in 1940. As a child he was distinguished by his love of animals, despite his allergy to cats.
He was determined to become an engineer, until he spent a summer with his father on a set and became convinced that acting was his thing, so he spent ten years in small theater companies. In 1971 he was hired for the television series All in the Family . He made his film debut twice, as he played the roles of chauffeur and secretary in the hilarious A Corpse for Desserts , with a script by Neil Simon . He spent the decades of the 70s and 80s alternating television with supporting roles in films such as The Great Tangle , A Genius with Two Brains or Explorers .
A nice pig changed his life. This is Babe, the brave little pig (1995), which brought him professional recognition, but also made him a vegetarian and an activist in various associations in favor of animal rights. “If any kid found out what goes on on a factory farm, he would never touch meat again. During the filming of Babe, I was moved by the intelligence and the sense of fun and freedom of animals, ”he said at the end of the film. It is a shame that the pata negra ham was lost, but from that moment on he did not stop fighting intensely for the cause, and he has even been arrested on one occasion, for participating in an illegal demonstration against a well-known hamburger chain .
Precisely in a role of defender of an ecological planet, he won the hearts of the trekkies , in Star Trek: First contact . Curiously, fans of the saga remember his character, a certain Zefram Cochcrane, among other things because apparently he is the only one who has pronounced the magic words Star Trek in everything that has been shot to date. Serie. Even the most demanding moviegoers were impressed by his memorable character from LA Confidential.. Captain Dudley Smith was a peculiar police chief, capable of tolerating a degree of corruption as long as the criminals were punished. In all the roles that followed, he managed to shine, regardless of the quality of the film. In The Bachelor , only he managed to succeed in his role as a priest, just like in Species II or The General’s Daughter . He other times he contributed to reach a high level of quality, as in While it snows on the cedars , RKO 281 , Space Cowboys and The Green Mile. He didn’t leave the small screen, and he earned an Emmy nomination for his role as a Catholic bishop about to die in ER . His last work released in Spain is his interpretation of the American president in Nuclear Panic . What he remembers most about filming is that he had to give a speech in front of four hundred extras. “The director told me that these types of appearances have to start with a joke and he blew me several so that I could repeat them. I’m not funny, but as soon as I spoke, people were laughing. That shows that if you’re the president, everyone laughs at your jokes even if you’re not funny at all.”