James Brolin

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 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.

Known For

Jack Barnes

Catch Me If You Can

Technician

Fantastic Voyage

John Blane

Westworld

Governor Conrad Welling

Wedding Wars

Franklin Harris

The Hunting Party

Private Ames

Von Ryan's Express

"P. W."

Pee-wee's Big Adventure

George Lutz

The Amityville Horror

John Kubiac

Lost City Raiders

Wade Parent

The Car

Col. Charles Brubaker

Capricorn One

Ken Cooper

A Guy Thing

Det. Sgt. Phil Lisi

The Boston Strangler

Fabbrizio Disguisey

The Master of Disguise

Simon Peter

The Visual Bible: Acts

Bob Hatch

The Alibi

Hank Cavanaugh

Widow on the Hill

Skip McCoy

The Cape Town Affair

Sean Boyd

Night of the Juggler

Brian

Last Chance Harvey

Stone

High Risk

John Evans

Gas Food Lodging

Ben Selleck

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard

The Captain (uncredited)

Antwone Fisher

Ed Johnson

Goodbye America

Warden Munsey

The Expert

Zurg (voice)

Lightyear

Det. Atwater

Relative Fear

Liam O'Donnell

Indecent Behavior II

Calvert Jenkins

Bitter/Sweet

Max Waters

Ted & Venus

Terry Bamba

Bad Girl Island

Bradley

Love, Wedding, Marriage

Jerome K. Weber

Skyjacked

Self

For God's Sake, Get Out!

B.D. Sweetman

Bad Jim

Ronald Reagan

The Reagans

David Hawkner

Tracks of a Killer

Jack Jennings

The American Standards

Chuck Brenner

Trapped

Ted Brennan

To Love, Honor, & Betray

McCabe

Terminal Virus

Joe Hart

Class of '63

Michael Mallory

Twin Sisters

Bo

Christmas with Tucker

Cliff Murphy

Back Stab

Mel (uncredited)

Take Her, She's Mine

Henry

Cheatin' Hearts

Jim Timony

Mae West

Harry Wilde

Beverly Hills Cowgirl Blues

Max

Elsa & Fred

Captain Ramsey

The Haunted Sea

Ron Showman

Hijacked: Flight 285

Bucky Ellis

Sisters

Mac Graham

And the Sea Will Tell

Tom Phelan

Short Walk to Daylight

Steven Kiley

Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Matter of Humanities

Hal

Visions of Murder

Professor Spencer Jones

Parallel Lives

Self

Cannes Man

Reverend Red

Lewis & Clark & George

Col. Ramon Acoca

The Sands of Time

Clark Gable

Gable and Lombard

Speaker Buck McCoy

Accidental Love

David Levinski / Charles Marlowe

Der schwarze Fluch

Clayton Pfanner

Steel Cowboy

Terrance Danfield

Blackout

Paul Marshall

The Ambush Murders

Jeff Hart

The 33

Elliott Manning

Hart to Hart: Harts in High Season

Martin Shrevelow

Finish Line

Mr. Anderson

Burlesque

Student at Leaf Rally

Dear Brigitte

Narrator

Evolution of the Apes

Narrator

The Secret Behind Escape

Narrator

Riots & Revolutions: Confronting the Times

Cornelius

Planet of the Apes Test Reel

Narrator

From Alpha to Omega: Building a Sequel

Doctor

The Earth Day Special

Narrator

End of an Epic: The Final Battle

Alan Lesard

We the People

Lt. Kincaid

Blood Money

Jack

I'll Be Home for Christmas

Greg Hollander

To Face Her Past

Gene Thompson

A Beautiful Day

John Hall

My Brother's War

Dave Passenger

Children of Fortune

Budetzky

High Score

Frank James (uncredited)

True Grit

Ed

The Steps

Donny Hall

Category 7: The End of the World

Dr. Alan Lanier

Nightmare on the 13th Floor

Ted Robertson

Way... Way Out

Nick Atkins

Intimate Encounters

Self

Spielberg

Self

Barbra: The Music ... The Mem'ries ... The Magic!

John Parsley

Gunsmoke: The Long Ride

Hank Pavlik

Royal Hearts

Colonel Jones

Savate

Mason Whitney

A Marriage of Convenience

Self

It Came From Connemara!

General Ralph Landry

Traffic

Notre Dame Quarterback (uncredited)

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

Salt

Angel Camouflaged

Det. Sloan

Last Will

Max

Being Rose

Ward McNally

Cowboy

Victor Mason

Voice of the Heart

Michael Wakefield

Intimate Betrayal

John Richardson

El Aroma del Copal

Ryan Allison

Perry Mason: The Case of the Grimacing Governor

Mike McKay

White Water Rebels

Technician (uncredited)

Our Man Flint

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

113

Gender

Male

Birthday

1940-07-18

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Also Known As

Craig Kenneth Bruderlin