James Brolin

James Brolin (84)

1940-07-18 | Los Angeles, California, USA

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.

On Movies

  • Lightyear
  • Royal Hearts
  • Barbra: The Music ... The Mem'ries ... The Magic!
  • Being Rose
  • I'll Be Home for Christmas
  • A Beautiful Day
  • The Steps
  • Sisters
  • The 33
  • Accidental Love
  • Elsa & Fred
  • Christmas with Tucker
  • Blackout sur Los Angeles
  • Love, Wedding, Marriage
  • Last Will
  • True Grit
  • Burlesque
  • Angel Camouflaged
  • Bitter/Sweet
  • The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
  • Last Chance Harvey
  • Lost City Raiders
  • The American Standards
  • Bad Girl Island
  • The Hunting Party
  • Wedding Wars
  • The Alibi
  • Category 7: The End of the World
  • Widow on the Hill
  • The Reagans
  • A Guy Thing
  • Antwone Fisher
  • Catch Me If You Can
  • The Master of Disguise
  • Traffic
  • Children of Fortune
  • To Love, Honor, & Betray
  • A Marriage of Convenience
  • My Brother's War
  • El Aroma del Copal
  • Cannes Man
  • Lewis & Clark & George
  • We the People
  • Goodbye America
  • The Haunted Sea
  • To Face Her Past
  • Tracks of a Killer
  • Hijacked: Flight 285
  • Hart to Hart: Harts in High Season
  • Blood Money
  • Relative Fear
  • Savate
  • The Expert
  • Der schwarze Fluch
  • Indecent Behavior II
  • Perry Mason: The Case of the Grimacing Governor
  • The Visual Bible: Acts
  • Parallel Lives
  • Cheatin' Hearts
  • Gunsmoke: The Long Ride
  • Visions of Murder
  • The Sands of Time
  • Gas Food Lodging
  • Twin Sisters
  • Ted & Venus
  • And the Sea Will Tell
  • Nightmare on the 13th Floor
  • Back Stab
  • Bad Jim
  • Voice of the Heart
  • Finish Line
  • Intimate Betrayal
  • Intimate Encounters
  • Beverly Hills Cowgirl Blues
  • Pee-wee's Big Adventure
  • Cowboy
  • White Water Rebels
  • Mae West
  • The Ambush Murders
  • High Risk
  • Night of the Juggler
  • The Amityville Horror
  • Steel Cowboy
  • Capricorn One
  • The Car
  • Gable and Lombard
  • Trapped
  • Westworld
  • Class of '63
  • Short Walk to Daylight
  • Skyjacked
  • Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Matter of Humanities
  • The Boston Strangler
  • The Cape Town Affair
  • Way... Way Out
  • Fantastic Voyage
  • Planet of the Apes Test Reel
  • Our Man Flint
  • Von Ryan's Express
  • John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
  • Dear Brigitte
  • Take Her, She's Mine

Movies as Director

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