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Long-time character actor James Cromwell has spent much of his career on stage and television, only occasionally appearing in feature films until the early '90s, when his film work began to flourish. The tall, spare actor first became known to an international audience with his role as the taciturn but kindly Farmer Hoggett, the owner of a piglet that wants to be a sheepdog, in the smash hit Babe (1995). His work in the film earned Cromwell an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor, as well as numerous opportunities for steady work in Hollywood. The son of noted director John Cromwell and actress Kay Johnson, he originally aspired to become a mechanical engineer, attending both Vermont's Middlebury College and the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University). But after a summer spent on a movie set with his father, the acting bug bit, and Cromwell decided to become an actor. He started out in regional theater, acting and directing in a variety productions for ten years, and he was a regular performer at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Cromwell made his television debut in the recurring role of "Stretch" Cunningham on All in the Family in 1974, and he subsequently spent the rest of the decade and much of the 1980s on television, as a regular on such shows as Hot L Baltimore and The Last Precinct. Cromwell also appeared in such miniseries as NBC's Once an Eagle and in such made-for-television movies as A Christmas Without Snow (1980). Cromwell made his feature film debut in the comedy Murder By Death (1976). His film work was largely undistinguished until Babe; following the film's success, he began appearing in more substantial roles in a number of popular films, including The People Vs. Larry Flynt (1996), in which he played Charles Keating; Star Trek: First Contact (1996), which cast him as the reluctant scientist responsible for Earth's first contact with alien life forms; and L.A. Confidential (1997), in which he gave a marvelously loathsome performance as a crooked police captain. Adept at playing nice guys and bottom-dwelling scum alike, Cromwell next earned strong notices for his portrayal of a penitentiary warden in The Green Mile (1999). ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide less

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W. (2008)
Cast: Oliver Stone Richard Dreyfuss Ellen Burstyn Thandie Newton
Tags: Drama Biopic Political Drama
Length: 129min
Josh Brolin stars as George W. Bush in this Oliver Stone iopic that traces the head of state's rise to power from a privileged alcoholic to a born-again Christian whose belief in religious destiny helped move him to the top ranks of political power....
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Tortured (2008)
Cast: Laurence Fishburne Jon Cryer
Tags: Psychological Thriller Thriller
Length: 107min
An FBI agent in the midst of a crucial undercover investigation resorts to extreme measures in order to prove himself in this /crime thriller starring Cole Hauser, James Cromwell, and Laurence Fishburne. FBI agent Kevin Cole (Hauser) is under direct...
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Impact (2008)
Tags: Disaster Film Thriller
Length: 190min
After a meteor shower streaks through the Milky Way, a brown dwarf with heavy gravitational pull crashes on the moon, causing the lunar body to change its orbit and head straight toward Earth on a deadly collision course. With less than 40 days to...
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Your Mommy Kills Animals (2007)
Tags: Animals Culture & Society Social Issues
Length: 106min
At a time in history when the FBI has deemed animal-rights activists the number-one domestic terrorist threat to the U.S., filmmaker Curt Johnson sets out to explore exactly how an organization such as PETA can possibly take precedence over the threat...
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Dante's Inferno (2007)
Tags: Satire Comedy
Length: 78min
Director Sean Meredith's animated entry into the ~2007 Newport Beach Film Festival details one man's curious voyage into the deepest depths of the underworld. Upon awakening in an unfamiliar part of the city after an especially rough night, Dante asks...
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Becoming Jane (2007)
Cast: Maggie Smith Anne Hathaway
Tags: Drama Romantic Drama Period Film
Length: 120min
Events from the life of the author Jane Austen inspired this omantic historical drama, which speculates of a romance that may have had a significant impact on her life and work. Twenty-year-old Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway) is the daughter of Rev....
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The Queen (2006)
Cast: Stephen Frears Helen Mirren
Tags: Family Drama Drama Political Drama Docudrama
Length: 101min
The British prime minister and the Royal Family find themselves quietly at odds in the wake of a national tragedy in this drama from director Stephen Frears. On August 31, 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales died in an auto accident in Paris; despite the...
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The Longest Yard (2005)
Cast: Burt Reynolds Chris Rock
Tags: Prison Film Comedy Sports Comedy
Length: 113min
One of the toughest and best-remembered sports movies of the 1970s gets a humorous makeover in this comedy. Paul "Wrecking" Crewe (Adam Sandler) was once a famous professional football player, but after several years out of the limelight and an...
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Avenger (2006)
Tags: Thriller Action Thriller
Length: 100min
Oscar nominated filmmaker Wolfgang Petersen executive produced this TNT/Warner Brothers co-production concerning a small-town lawyer and one-time Special Forces operative who embarks on a violent quest to avenge the brutal murder of his daughter, and...
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Salem's Lot (2004)
Cast: Rob Lowe Donald Sutherland James Cromwell Stephen King Andre Braugher
Tags: Supernatural Horror Horror
Length: 181min
In this TV adaptation of the Stephen King novel, a journalist with traumatic memories of his haunted childhood returns to find his hometown being infiltrated by vampires. As a boy in Jerusalem's Lot, ME, Ben Mears (Rob Lowe) took a dare and broke into...
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