Acting credits
154
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.

Acting
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Acting credits
154
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
TMDB popularity
2.2
Moderate attention
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TMDB ID: 9274
IMDb ID: nm0000981
Known for: Acting
Born: July 18, 1940
Age: 85
Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1944 - 2025
Years active: 82
Average TMDB rating: 6.38
Wikidata: Q315051
Also known as
Craig Kenneth Bruderlin • James M. Brolin • Craig J. Brolin • 詹姆斯‧布洛林 • James Kenneth Bruderlin • جیمز برولین • Джеймс Кеннет Брудерлин
Other jobs
James Brolin (born Craig Kenneth Bruderlin; July 18, 1940) is an American actor, producer and director. He has won two Golden Globes and an Emmy. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on August 27, 1998. He is best known for his TV roles such as Steven Kiley on Marcus Welby, M.D.(1969–1976), Peter McDermott on Hotel (1983–1988), John Short on Life in Pieces (2015–2019), and the Narrator on Sweet Tooth and his film roles such as Sgt. Jerome K. Weber in Skyjacked (1972), John Blane in Westworld (1973), General Ralph Landry in Traffic (2000), Jack Barnes in Catch Me If You Can (2002), and Emperor Zurg in the 2022 Toy Story spin-off film Lightyear. In 1966, he married Jane Cameron Agee, a wildlife activist and aspiring actress at Twentieth Century Fox, 12 days after they first met. The couple had two children, actor Josh Brolin (b. 1968), and Jess (b. 1973). They were divorced in 1984. In 1985, he met actress Jan Smithers on the set of Hotel, and they married in 1986. The couple had a daughter, Molly Elizabeth (b. 1987). Smithers filed for divorce from Brolin in 1995. In 1996, he met singer and actress Barbra Streisand through a friend, and they married on July 1, 1998. He is stepfather of Streisand's only child, Jason Gould.




Movie credits linked with James Brolin.
as Zurg (voice)
as Hank Pavlik
as Self
as Max
as Self
as Jack
as Gene Thompson
as Ed
as Bucky Ellis
as Jeff Hart
as Speaker Buck McCoy
as Self
as Max
as Bo
as Terrance Danfield
as Bradley
as Det. Sloan
as Frank James (uncredited)
as Mr. Anderson
as Salt
Executive Producer
as Calvert Jenkins
as Ben Selleck
as Brian
Series credits linked with James Brolin.
as Cap Fuller • 10 eps
as Self - Actor • 3 eps
as Self- Archive • 4 eps
as Narrator (voice) • 24 eps
as Self • 1 eps
as Self • 1 eps
as John Short • 79 eps
as Judge Jedidiah Black • 1 eps
as Teddy Kaczmarek • 1 eps
as William Winger • 1 eps
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
as Jackson Hunt • 2 eps
as Hank Mendel • 1 eps
as Donny Hall • 2 eps
as Ronald Reagan • 2 eps
as Self • 1 eps
as Daniel Thorn • 1 eps
as Gov. Robert Ritchie • 2 eps
as Richard Finley • 1 eps
as Lt. Col. Bill Kelly • 66 eps
as Self • 2 eps
as Self - Host • 6 eps
as Mitchell Farrell • 1 eps
2 eps