Biography
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 ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Lightyear
2022
as Zurg (voice)
Legendary Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear embarks on an intergalactic adventure alongside a group of ambitious recruits and his robot companion Sox.

Royal Hearts
2018
as Hank Pavlik
Kelly, a hopeless romantic in Montana eager to finish her dissertation, and her father, Hank, a rancher, receive news that he has inherited an estate ...

Royal Hearts
2018
Director, Executive Producer
Kelly, a hopeless romantic in Montana eager to finish her dissertation, and her father, Hank, a rancher, receive news that he has inherited an estate ...

Barbra: The Music ... The Mem'ries ... The Magic!
2017
as Self
Iconic songstress Barbra Streisand culminates her 13-city tour in Miami with dazzling ballads, Broadway standards and stories from behind the scenes.

Being Rose
2017
as Max
A widowed ex-cop discovers that she may have a life threatening illness, and decides to go on a solo road trip in a motorized wheelchair to explore th...

Spielberg
2017
as Self
A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.

I'll Be Home for Christmas
2016
as Jack
Jackie Foster, a dynamic Assistant District Attorney and single mom, is looking forward to wrapping up her latest case and spending Christmas with Gra...

I'll Be Home for Christmas
2016
Director, Executive Producer
Jackie Foster, a dynamic Assistant District Attorney and single mom, is looking forward to wrapping up her latest case and spending Christmas with Gra...

A Beautiful Day
2016
as Gene Thompson
Gene Thompson wakes up knowing that the decision he has made will change his life forever.

The Steps
2016
as Ed
Siblings gather to meet their father's new wife and kids.

Sisters
2015
as Bucky Ellis
Two disconnected sisters are summoned to clean out their childhood bedrooms before their parents sell their family home.

The 33
2015
as Jeff Hart
Based on the true story of the collapse of a mine in San Jose, Chile—that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.

Accidental Love
2015
as Speaker Buck McCoy
A small town waitress gets a nail accidentally lodged in her head causing unpredictable behavior that leads her to Washington, DC. Sparks fly when sh...

It Came From Connemara!
2014
as Self
The incongruous tale of when legendary Hollywood B-movie producer Roger Corman created a studio in Connemara, Ireland in the mid-1990s.

Elsa & Fred
2014
as Max
After his daughter persuades him to move into a new apartment, aged widower Fred strikes up a friendship with his eccentric 74-year-old neighbour Elsa...

Christmas with Tucker
2013
as Bo
While coming to terms with his dad's recent passing in a tractor accident, 13-year-old George McCray is living with his grandparents on their Kansas f...

Blackout sur Los Angeles
2012
as Terrance Danfield
After being charged with hacking into the Pentagon security system, computer-whiz Josh Martin is kidnapped during house arrest and delivered to a shad...

Love, Wedding, Marriage
2011
as Bradley
A happy newlywed marriage counselor's views on wedded bliss get thrown for a loop when she finds out her parents are getting divorced.

Last Will
2011
as Det. Sloan
An affluent woman is framed for the murder of her husband and faces a mountain of evidence stacked against her. Undeterred, she begins to put the piec...

True Grit
2010
as Frank James (uncredited)
Following the murder of her father by a hired hand, a 14-year-old farm girl sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Ma...

Burlesque
2010
as Mr. Anderson
Ali leaves behind a troubled life and follows her dreams to Los Angeles, where she lands a job as a cocktail waitress at the Burlesque Lounge, a once-...

Angel Camouflaged
2010
as Salt
Scottie's life changes when she inherits a bar in South Carolina, an exciting rock n roll, emotional adventure about the will of a woman and her broth...

Standing Ovation
2010
Executive Producer
A group of young girls is competing in a nation teen music video competition.

Bitter/Sweet
2009
as Calvert Jenkins
American businessman Brian Chandler has a perfect life with a great job and beautiful fiancée. When his boss, renegade coffee mogul Calvert Jenkins se...

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
2009
as Ben Selleck
Don Ready is many things, but he is best-known as an extraordinary salesman. When a car dealership in Temecula teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, he ...

Last Chance Harvey
2008
as Brian
In London for his daughter's wedding, a struggling jingle-writer, Harvey Shine, misses his plane to New York, and thus loses his job. While drowning h...

Evolution of the Apes
2008
as Narrator
This documentary examines the creative origins of the 'Planet of the Apes' franchise, from Pierre Boulle's original novel and Rod Serling's adapted sc...

The Secret Behind Escape
2008
as Narrator
Documentary on the making of 'Escape from the Planet of the Apes' (1971).

Riots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times
2008
as Narrator
Documentary on the parallels between United States racial politics and the narrative of 'Conquest for the Planet of the Apes' (1972).

From Alpha to Omega: Building a Sequel
2008
as Narrator
Documentary on the making of 'Beneath the Planet of the Apes' (1970).

End of an Epic: The Final Battle
2008
as Narrator
Documentary on the making of 'Battle for the Planet of the Apes' (1973)

Lost City Raiders
2008
as John Kubiac
The year is 2048, and global warming has flooded much of Earth's land areas. A father and his two sons try to salvage treasures from sunken buildings ...
The American Standards
2008
as Jack Jennings
At a crossroads in his life, Doc Jennings goes home to celebrate his mother's birthday and uncovers dramatic family secrets. Lies, affairs and afflict...
The American Standards
2008
Producer
At a crossroads in his life, Doc Jennings goes home to celebrate his mother's birthday and uncovers dramatic family secrets. Lies, affairs and afflict...

Bad Girl Island
2007
as Terry Bamba
A wealthy film producer Michael Pace discovers a beautiful unconscious woman pushed ashore by what appears to be a friendly dolphin. Confused and capt...

Bad Girl Island
2007
Co-Producer
A wealthy film producer Michael Pace discovers a beautiful unconscious woman pushed ashore by what appears to be a friendly dolphin. Confused and capt...

The Hunting Party
2007
as Franklin Harris
A young journalist, an experienced cameraman and a discredited reporter find their bold plan to capture Bosnia's top war criminal quickly spiraling ou...

Wedding Wars
2006
as Governor Conrad Welling
In the midst of organizing his brother Ben's wedding, Shel, a gay party planner, decides to go on strike for equal rights when he learns that Ben is b...

The Alibi
2006
as Bob Hatch
Con man Ray Elliot decides to leave crime behind to start a company that sells fake alibis to clients who have been unfaithful to their significant ot...

Category 7: The End of the World
2005
as Donny Hall
It's tornadoes, hurricanes, electrical storms, and mass destruction as the effects of global warming brew into a super storm that threatens to rend th...

For God's Sake, Get Out!
2005
as Self
An archival making-of documentary featuring interviews with actor James Brolin and actress Margot Kidder.

Widow on the Hill
2005
as Hank Cavanaugh
A sexy young hospice nurse, is hired by a wealthy man to care for his sick wife who eventually dies. When the nurse becomes the widower's new bride an...

The Reagans
2003
as Ronald Reagan
The miniseries featured James Brolin as Ronald Reagan and Judy Davis as Nancy Reagan, and covers the period in time from 1949 when Reagan was still in...

A Guy Thing
2003
as Ken Cooper
Paul Morse is a good guy. When his friends throw him a wild bachelor party, he just wants to keep his conscience clean -- which is why he's shocked wh...

Antwone Fisher
2002
as The Captain
A sailor prone to violent outbursts is sent to a naval psychiatrist for help. Refusing at first to open up, the young man eventually breaks down and r...

Catch Me If You Can
2002
as Jack Barnes
A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor...

The Master of Disguise
2002
as Fabbrizio Disguisey
After the patriarch of the Disguisey family is kidnapped by Devlin Bowman in an attempt to steal the most precious treasures from around the world, It...

Traffic
2000
as General Ralph Landry
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Poli...

Children of Fortune
2000
as Dave Passenger
Navy detective Dave Passenger is assigned to investigate the murder of a sailor's girlfriend. Dave follows the trail of evidence to a small Arizona co...

To Love, Honor, & Betray
1999
as Ted Brennan
A young woman (Crystal Bernard) aware of her father's (James Brolin) affair with another woman becomes convinced of his guilt after her mother (Dee Wa...

A Marriage of Convenience
1998
as Mason Whitney
Succesful businesswoman Chris Winslow gives up her career to raise her deceased sister's son, Kevin. Eight years later, she must contend with the boy'...

My Brother's War
1997
as John Hall
Two brothers carry out a deadly terrorist bombing, but only one pays the price - imprisonment for life. Years later, the jailed brother is offered a s...

My Brother's War
1997
Director
Two brothers carry out a deadly terrorist bombing, but only one pays the price - imprisonment for life. Years later, the jailed brother is offered a s...

El Aroma del Copal
1997
as John Richardson
A petroleum engineer from Texas travels to an oil operation in Central America where he clashes with his boss, romances two women, and finds himself c...

Cannes Man
1997
as Self
Film producer Sy Lerner makes a bet with a fellow film executive that he can turn any nobody into a star at the Cannes Film Festival. A New York cab d...

Lewis & Clark & George
1997
as Reverend Red
A sultry woman joins an illiterate killer and a brainy hacker, both escaped convicts, to search for gold.

We the People
1997
as Alan Lesard
Alan and his pregnant wife, Amy, plan to spend a quiet weekend at their isolated vacation home in the woods. They are joined by two other couples, Bil...

We the People
1997
Executive Producer
Alan and his pregnant wife, Amy, plan to spend a quiet weekend at their isolated vacation home in the woods. They are joined by two other couples, Bil...

Goodbye America
1997
as Ed Johnson
It is November 1992 and the US Navy is preparing to surrender its largest overseas facility at Subic Bay, Philippines, after almost a century. For bot...

The Haunted Sea
1997
as Captain Ramsey
A mysterious ship is found adrift in mid-ocean without a crew. But this mystery is soon forgotten when Captain Ramsey, his two sexy first mates and th...

To Face Her Past
1996
as Greg Hollander
Beth Bradfield (Patty Duke) is a housewife with what appears to be a stable life in an American village. One day, her 24-year-old daughter Lori (Trace...

Tracks of a Killer
1996
as David Hawkner
Business mogul David Hawkner and his wife are enjoying a quiet vacation by themselves at their isolated retreat. The serenity is broken when they beco...

Hijacked: Flight 285
1996
as Ron Showman
A convicted murderer is escorted by marshals on a regular flight from Phoenix to Dallas. Shortly after takeoff, two of his aides, traveling as ordinar...

Hart to Hart: Harts in High Season
1996
as Elliott Manning
One of the final entries in the series of romantic suspense adventures takes Jennifer and Jonathan Hart off to Sydney, Australia, where they plan to p...

Blood Money
1996
as Lt. Kincaid
Hardened criminal Lester is in prison for armed robbery and murder. When his request for parole is refused, he escapes and hatches a plan for revenge ...

Relative Fear
1995
as Det. Atwater
Linda and Peter Pratman's son Adam is autistic, but they still love him and hope that he'll at least start talking some day. However he's teased and a...

Savate
1995
as Colonel Jones
1865: A young French officer, travelling the U.S. in search of the murderer of his best friend, gets involved in a struggle between poor farmers and a...

The Expert
1995
as Warden Munsey
It was a brutal murder that sent deranged psychopath Martin Kagan to prison. It was a naive deputy warden that granted him a stay of execution. Now, t...

Der schwarze Fluch
1995
as David Levinski / Charles Marlowe
A reporter becomes embroiled in a deadly game when researching a series of murders on a South American island.
Terminal Virus
1995
as McCabe
It has been 23 years since a world war during which combatants unleashed a lab-created virus that has made life no fun at all. Civilization has broken...

Indecent Behavior II
1994
as Liam O'Donnell
Reporter Shoshona Reed is about to expose a number of people who have a lot to lose. Unfortunately, her cunning ways of getting stories by blackmailin...

Perry Mason: The Case of the Grimacing Governor
1994
as Ryan Allison
The alleged suicide of a gubernatorial candidate triggers a series of mysterious deaths leading to the governor's mansion, and "Wild" Bill McKenzie, a...

The Visual Bible: Acts
1994
as Simon Peter
The Visual Bible: Acts is a 1994 film that depicts the events of Book of Acts from the Bible's New Testament. All of the dialogue is word-for-word Scr...

Parallel Lives
1994
as Professor Spencer Jones
A college reunion turns into a tangled web of passion, romance and intrigue as old friends and enemies catch up with each other's lives. Includes a lo...

Cheatin' Hearts
1993
as Henry
Western drama directed by Rod McCall. Henry deserted his family years before, Henry (James Brolin) kicks up a storm when he shows up to see his younge...

Gunsmoke: The Long Ride
1993
as John Parsley
For thirty years, Marshall Matt Dillon fought to preserve the law in Dodge City… now, he's wanted for murder and fighting to clear his name. Three dep...

Visions of Murder
1993
as Hal
Psychological thriller about a San Francisco therapist with paranormal revelations -- or visions -- who comes under suspicion when one of her patients...

The Sands of Time
1992
as Col. Ramon Acoca
Three nuns are caught up in the midst of Spanish Civil War in the 1930s.

Gas Food Lodging
1992
as John Evans
Nora, a single mother raising two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, waits tables at a truck-stop diner in a small New Mexico town. The beautiful and...

Twin Sisters
1992
as Michael Mallory
A woman flies from Los Angeles to Montreal to investigate the supposed death of her identical twin. What she finds out could get her killed.

Ted & Venus
1991
as Max Waters
Ted is a 1970s Venice Beach poet who spends his days drifting along the boardwalk, reciting his poetry to anyone who will listen. His life changes whe...

And the Sea Will Tell
1991
as Mac Graham
A wealthy couple (James Brolin and Deidre Hall) are killed on their yacht off the coast of a secluded South American island called Palmyra. The suspec...

Nightmare on the 13th Floor
1990
as Dr. Alan Lanier
In this made-for-cable television horror thriller, a travel writer visits a historic hotel to write a story about it and inadvertently finds herself o...

Back Stab
1990
as Cliff Murphy
An architect goes to bed with a seductive stranger only to awaken beside the corpse of his boss.
High Score
1990
as Budetzky
A man obsessed with video games becomes increasingly confused between the game and reality. When he causes a fatal accident and flees, a policeman, wh...

Bad Jim
1990
as B.D. Sweetman
A cowpoke buys Billy the Kid's horse and, upon riding it, becomes an incorrigible outlaw himself.

The Earth Day Special
1990
as Doctor
The Earth Day Special is a television special revolving around Earth Day that aired on ABC on April 22, 1990. Sponsored by Time Warner, the two hour s...

Voice of the Heart
1989
as Victor Mason
Mini-series based on the novel by Barbara Taylor Bradford. Lady Frances Cunningham, a writer of historical biographies, becomes heavily involved with ...

Finish Line
1989
as Martin Shrevelow
In order to get better results, a young athlete starts using steroids and begins his downfall.
Intimate Betrayal
1987
as Michael Wakefield
A woman finds hidden truths when her husband disappears and is presumed dead.

Intimate Encounters
1986
as Nick Atkins
It started as fantasy...and ended as intimate encounters.

Beverly Hills Cowgirl Blues
1985
as Harry Wilde
A Wyoming cop teams with a Beverly Hills policeman to track down the killer of her best friend.

Pee-wee's Big Adventure
1985
as "P. W."
The eccentric and childish Pee-wee Herman embarks on a big adventure when his beloved bicycle is stolen. Armed with information from a fortune-teller ...

Cowboy
1983
as Ward McNally
A man from the city returns to his small home town in the countryside to live like a farmer. He finds couple of friends among the locals, but people r...

White Water Rebels
1983
as Mike McKay
James Brolin plays a renegade canoeist who illegally runs a river to protest its exploitation by a greedy corporation.

Mae West
1982
as Jim Timony
Biography of the curvaceous and sharp-witted actress who scandalized Broadway and Hollywood in the 1920s-30s with her frank approach to sex.

The Ambush Murders
1982
as Paul Marshall
An African-American political activist is wrongfully imprisoned for killing two white policemen; he is unwary of yet another white lawyer who claims t...

High Risk
1981
as Stone
Four American friends, badly needing money, decide to make a commando-like raid into a South American drug lord's compound.

Night of the Juggler
1980
as Sean Boyd
An ex New York cop is desperate to find his kidnapped daughter.

The Amityville Horror
1979
as George Lutz
George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Victorian mansion nestled in the sleepy ...

Steel Cowboy
1978
as Clayton Pfanner
An independent trucker, trying to keep his marriage alive and his rig out of the hands of bill collectors, agrees to haul a cargo of stolen cattle wit...

Capricorn One
1977
as Col. Charles Brubaker
In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of NASA administrators turn the first Mars mission into a phony Mars landing....

The Car
1977
as Wade Parent
The Utah community of Santa Ynez is being terrorized by a mysterious black coupe that appears out of nowhere and begins running people down. After the...

Gable and Lombard
1976
as Clark Gable
A biography about the love affair between 1930s Hollywood superstars Clark Gable and Carole Lombard.

Trapped
1974
as Chuck Brenner
A man is accidentally locked in a department store overnight and finds himself held at bay by six vicious Doberman guard dogs.

Westworld
1973
as John Blane
Delos is a futuristic amusement park that features themed worlds—ancient Rome, Medieval times and the Old West—populated by human-like androids. After...

Class of '63
1973
as Joe Hart
A jealous husband uses a college reunion to gauge whether or not his wife is still in love with her old flame.

Short Walk to Daylight
1972
as Tom Phelan
Eight people have to find their way out of a New York subway after being trapped following an earthquake.

Skyjacked
1972
as Jerome K. Weber
A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 and demands to be taken to Russia.

Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Matter of Humanities
1969
as Steven Kiley
The pilot film for the long-run series introduced the kindly small-town general practitioner who, following a mild coronary, grudgingly brings in an i...

The Boston Strangler
1968
as Det. Sgt. Phil Lisi
Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through ...

The Cape Town Affair
1967
as Skip McCoy
South African secret agents attempt to save confidential microfilm before it falls into the hands of Communists. A color remake of the Sam Fuller film...

Way... Way Out
1966
as Ted Robertson
A platonically wed American couple run a lunar weather station near an unwed Soviet couple.

Fantastic Voyage
1966
as Technician
In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.

Planet of the Apes Test Reel
1966
as Cornelius
A make-up test to determine the feasibility of 'Planet of the Apes' (1968).

Our Man Flint
1966
as Technician (uncredited)
When scientists use eco-terrorism to impose their will on the world by affecting extremes in the weather, Intelligence Chief Cramden calls in top agen...

Von Ryan's Express
1965
as Private Ames
Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win ov...

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
1965
as Notre Dame Quarterback (uncredited)
During the Cold War, John Goldfarb crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Fawz, soon...

Dear Brigitte
1965
as Student at Leaf Rally
Professor Leaf, an absent-minded poet with a prejudice against the sciences, is forced to face the fact that his son is a math prodigy with little art...

Take Her, She's Mine
1963
as Mel (uncredited)
After reluctantly packing up his daughter, Mollie, and sending her away to study art at a Paris college, Frank Michaelson gives new meaning to the ter...