James Oliver Cromwell is an American actor, who is best known for portraying Arthur Hoggett in the 1995 comedy-drama film Babe and its 1998 sequel (in which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor). He is also well-known for voicing the Colonel, the main antagonist of the 2002 DreamWorks animated feature film Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, as well as playing Captain Stacy in Sam Raimi's 2007 superhero film Spider-Man 3. Additionally, he portrayed prison wardens in The Green Mile and The Longest Yard.
For Disney, he voiced Robert Callaghan in the 2014 Disney animated feature film Big Hero 6 and its subsequent TV series. He also played Admiral Rothman in the 1988 Touchstone Pictures film The Rescue, Charlie "the Robber" Mulvihill in the 1994 film remake of The Shaggy Dog, Ogden Phipps in the 2010 film Secretariat, and Dr. Lionel Canter in Surrogates.
Cromwell was born in Los Angeles, California. He is the son of actress Kay Johnson and actor and director John Cromwell, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era; his parents divorced in 1946. He has English, German, Irish, and Scottish ancestry. He graduated from The Hill School in 1958, and went on to Middlebury College, and Carnegie Mellon University, where he graduated with a B.F.A. in 1964. He received his acting training at HB Studio in New York City. Like his parents, he was drawn to the theater, performing in everything from Shakespeare to experimental plays.
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