James Brolin
Actor
- Born
- July 18, 1940 (age 86) · 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.
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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
Catch Me If You Can
December 16, 2002
True Grit
December 22, 2010
Lightyear
June 15, 2022
Traffic
December 27, 2000
Burlesque
November 23, 2010
Westworld
August 15, 1973
Sisters
December 18, 2015
The Amityville Horror
July 27, 1979
The 33
August 6, 2015
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
July 26, 1985
Antwone Fisher
December 19, 2002
Capricorn One
December 10, 1977
Acting115
- 2022Lightyear as Zurg / Old Buzz (voice)
- 2018Royal Hearts as Hank Pavlik
- 2017Barbra: The Music ... The Mem'ries ... The Magic! as Self
- 2017Being Rose as Max
- 2017Spielberg as Self
- 2016I'll Be Home for Christmas as Jack
- 2016A Beautiful Day as Gene Thompson
- 2016The Steps as Ed
- 2015Sisters as Bucky Ellis
- 2015The 33 as Jeff Hart