Biography
John Cullum was born on March 2, 1930 in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Northern Exposure (1990), 1776 (1972) and Before We Go (2014).
Known For
Complete Filmography
Simchas and Sorrows
2022
as Nate
An atheist actress attempts to convert to Judaism to marry the man she loves.
The Acolyte
2021
as Arch Pontifex
Is there hope for the modern world? Or are we beyond the point of no return? Inspired by the Marx Brothers and HP Lovecraft, The Acolyte depicts a vic...
John Cullum: An Accidental Star
2021
as Self
Go behind the scenes with Broadway icon John Cullum, from his 1960 debut in Camelot and Tony Award-winning performances in Shenandoah and On the Twent...
John Cullum: An Accidental Star
2021
Idea
Go behind the scenes with Broadway icon John Cullum, from his 1960 debut in Camelot and Tony Award-winning performances in Shenandoah and On the Twent...
Jungleland
2020
as Yates
Stanley manages his boxer brother Lion but when a devastating loss in the ring leaves the pair in debt, an opportunity to recoup the cash leads to a s...
Christine
2016
as Bob Andersen
In 1974, television reporter Christine Chubbuck struggles with depression and professional frustrations as she tries to advance her career.
The Historian
2014
as Brigston Hadley
A troubled, young history professor tries to escape his past by taking a job at a new university, where he struggles with an entrenched and equally-tr...
Before We Go
2014
as Harry
A woman who is robbed on her way to catch the 1:30 train to Boston is left stranded in New York City. She meets a man who helps her during the course ...
Love Is Strange
2014
as Father Raymond
After 39 years together, Ben and George finally tie the knot, but George loses his job as a result, and the newlyweds must sell their New York apartme...
Adult World
2014
as Stan
Amy, a naive college graduate who believes she's destined to be a great poet, begrudgingly accepts a job at a sex shop while she pursues a mentorship ...
Kill Your Darlings
2013
as Professor Steeves
A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel: Live from Lincoln Center
2013
as The Starkeeper
Transferring the setting of a brooding Hungarian play, Carousel, to a remote fishing village, shaping their vision around themes of brutality, poverty...
Kilimanjaro
2013
as Milton
For years, Doug Collins has been wading through a routine unsatisfying job and an increasingly miserable relationship. After his girlfriend moves out,...
All Good Things
2010
as Richard Panatierre
Newly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story and murder mystery of the most notorious unsolved murd...
Lafayette: The Lost Hero
2010
as Narrator
No one in recorded history has suffered a fate quite like Lafayette. Once, he was the most famous man in the world; today, few people know who he was ...
The Night Listener
2006
as Pap Noone
In the midst of his crumbling relationship, a radio show host begins speaking to his biggest fan—a young boy—via the telephone. But when questions abo...
Secrets of Angels, Demons and Masons
2005
as Narrator
Separating fact from fiction, Secrets of Angels, Demons & Masons is the ultimate guide to the secret societies of Dan Brown's thrillers. Based on ...
The Notorious Bettie Page
2005
as Preacher in Nashville
Bettie Page grew up in a conservative religious family in Tennessee and became a photo model sensation in 1950s New York. Bettie's legendary pin-up ph...
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
as Other Voices (voice)
The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
2003
as Other Voices (voice)
In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car h...
Ricochet River
2001
as Link Curren
High school seniors Wade (Jason James Richter) and Lorna (Kate Hudson) have spent all their lives in the small logging town of Calamus Grove, a conser...
Urinetown
2001
as Caldwell B. Cladwell
In the not-so-distant future, a terrible water shortage and 20-year drought has led to a government ban on private toilets and a proliferation of paid...
Held Up
1999
as Jack
What should have been a romantic getaway turns into one hilarious debacle after another when Michael's woman dumps him in the desert where he gets car...
Inherit the Wind
1999
as Judge Merle Coffey
Two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
The Secret Life of Algernon
1997
as Algernon Pendleton
Algernon is an old man who lives alone, having conversations with a porcelain cat and enjoys making things out of bones... he boils a neighbor's dead ...
The Secret Life of Algernon
1997
Writer
Algernon is an old man who lives alone, having conversations with a porcelain cat and enjoys making things out of bones... he boils a neighbor's dead ...
Money, Power, Murder.
1989
as Rev. Endicott
Peter Finley is a cable-TV newsman who is led into a network of sin and conspiracy when he has interest in a missing anchorwoman's story.
Shootdown
1988
as Robert Allardyce
Nan Moore is a U.S. government employee whose son is killed when Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by Soviets on September 1, 1983. While the "offici...
Sweet Country
1987
as Ben
An American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende's 1973 overthrow.
Marie: A True Story
1985
as Deputy Attorney General
In 1978 Tennessee, a single mother and political appointee risks her career and her life to blow the whistle on rampant corruption in the penal system...
The Act
1984
as The President
Blackmail, a complex heist, and political snakery collide into a complicated caper full of disguises and surprises, where it's never clear who's reall...
The Day After
1983
as Jim Dahlberg
In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue thei...
The Prodigal
1983
as Elton Stuart
They were a family torn apart by redemption...kept apart by pride...but brought together by a miracle.
Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences
1982
as Carl Sandburg
Perry Miller Adato's first attempt to combine documentary techniques with dramatic re-enactment. The film uses actor John Cullum both as himself and t...
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
1978
as Mr. Jamison
1978 movie starring Morgan Freeman. This movie is the shortened version that was released from the original 3 part mini series back in 1978.
The Man Without a Country
1973
as Aaron Burr
At his court-martial, an American Army officer renounces his country. For his punishment he is ordered to spend the rest of his life on a ship that sa...
1776
1972
as Edward Rutledge (SC)
Colonial representatives gather in Philadelphia with the aim of establishing a set of governmental rules for the burgeoning United States. Benjamin Fr...
Androcles and the Lion
1967
as Roman Captain
The story of Androcles, the simple-hearted Christian tailor whose friendship with a lion saves himself and his friends from martyrdom in the Roman Col...
Hawaii
1966
as Immanuel Quigley
Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, ...
The Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner
1966
as Himself
Hosted by Cyril Ritchard, with performances by Florence Henderson, Barbara Harris, Stanley Holloway, John Cullum, Patricia McBride and Edward Villella...
Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
1964
as Laertes
A stage production of Hamlet filmed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York. It was deliberately staged in the style of a "dress rehearsal", but perf...
All the Way Home
1963
as Andrew
In the early 1900's Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father's sudden, accidental death. The widow and her young son must endure t...