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James Brolin
Known for: ActingJames 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.
Filmography 70
Sweet Tooth
as Narrator (voice) 
Marcus Welby, M.D.
as Dr. Steven Kiley 
Life in Pieces
as John Short 
Catch Me If You Can
+5
as Jack Barnes 
Traffic
as General Ralph Landry 
Pensacola: Wings of Gold
as Lt. Col. Bill Kelly 
The Alibi
as Bob Hatch 
Lightyear
+2
as Zurg / Old Buzz (voice) 
The 33
+1
as Jeff Hart 
Sisters
+3
as Bucky Ellis 
A Guy Thing
+3
as Ken Cooper 
Last Chance Harvey
+3
as Brian 
The Amityville Horror
+8
as George Lutz 
Westworld
+2
as John Blane 
Our Man Flint
as Technician (uncredited) 
Capricorn One
+4
as Col. Charles Brubaker 
The Car
+2
as Wade Parent 
The Hunting Party
as Franklin Harris 
Category 7: The End of the World
+1
as Donny Hall 
Antwone Fisher
+1
as The Captain (uncredited) 
Fantastic Voyage
as Technician 
Von Ryan's Express
+4
as Pvt. Ames 
The Master of Disguise
+4
as Fabbrizio Disguisey 
Gas Food Lodging
+2
as John Evans 
Accidental Love
+2
as Buck McCoy 
Cannes Man
+1
as Self 
The Expert
as Warden Munsey 
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
+2
as Ben Selleck 
Hold the Dream
as Ross Nelson 
I'll Be Home for Christmas
as Jack 
Night of the Juggler
as Sean Boyd 
Blood Money
+2
as Lt. Kincaid 
Love, Wedding, Marriage
+5
as Bradley 
High Risk
as Stone 
Wedding Wars
as Governor Conrad Welling 
Bad Jim
as B.D. Sweetman 
Perry Mason: The Case of the Grimacing Governor
as Ryan Allison 
Elsa & Fred
as Max 
Lost City Raiders
as John "Pa" Kubiak 
A Marriage of Convenience
as Mason Whitney 
Widow on the Hill
as Hank Cavanaugh 
Gunsmoke: The Long Ride
as John Parsley 
Royal Hearts
as Hank Pavlik 
Dear Brigitte
as Student at Leaf Rally 
Gable and Lombard
+1
as Clark Gable 
The Steps
as Ed 
Bad Girl Island
+1
as Terry Bamba 
The Visual Bible: Acts
as Peter 
Hijacked: Flight 285
+2
as Ron Showman 
Way... Way Out
as Ted Robertson 
Savate
as Colonel Jones 
My Brother's War
as John Hall 
Parallel Lives
as Professor Spencer Jones 
Christmas with Tucker
as Bo 
Mae West
+1
as Jim Timony 
Cheatin' Hearts
as Henry 
The Cape Town Affair
+1
as Skip McCoy 
Skyjacked
+1
as Jerome K. Weber 
The Reagans
as Ronald Reagan 
Steel Cowboy
as Clayton Pfanner 
Bitter/Sweet
as Calvert Jenkins 
The Ambush Murders
as Paul Marshall 
Hart to Hart: Harts in High Season
as Elliott Manning 
Goodbye America
as Ed Johnson 
Intimate Betrayal
as Michael Wakefield 
Being Rose
+3
as Max 
It Came From Connemara!
as Self
as Jack Jennings