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JAMES CROMWELL (The Priest) has a career that spans three decades and includes dozens of movies, television, and stage appearances. Contemporary audiences know him as the lovable "Farmer Hoggett" from Babe, a role that garnered him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Cromwell was seen in such films as The People vs. Larry Flynt, Star Trek: First Contact, L.A. Confidential, and recently in Babe: Pig in the City, Scott Hicks’ Snow Falling On Cedars, and the John Travolta starrer The General’s Daughter. Other film credits include Eraser, The Education of Little Tree, Romeo is Bleeding, Species 2, Deep Impact, A Fine Mess, Pink Cadillac, The Babe, Explorers, The Man with Two Brains, The Cheap Detective, Oh God, You Devil; Revenge of the Nerds, and Murder by Death, his big screen debut. Cromwell, the son of acclaimed film director John Cromwell (Since You Went Away, Of Human Bondage, Abe Lincoln in Illinois) and actress Kay Johnson, grew up on the East coast. He attended Vermont’s Middlebury College and studied acting and directing at Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh before beginning his career as an actor and stage manager at the Cleveland Playhouse. He later toured the Deep South in the early 1960’s (during the civil rights struggle) with the Free Southern Theatre, an integrated acting troupe that staged plays in primarily Black communities. A few years later, he worked with the Committee to Defend the Black Panthers in New York, and participated in the anti-war protests in Washington, D.C. in the 1970’s. Cromwell, a staunch animal rights activist, is presently raising money to build a Fine Arts College on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. |
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