James Brolin

James Brolin

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.

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James Brolin Movies

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Lightyear (2022)

Adventure Animation Family
Before he became a plastic toy in Andy's bedroom, Buzz Lightyear was a Space Ranger with a mission and a problem. Stranded on a hostile planet after a catastrophic navigation...
Score 6.9
2

The 33 (2015)

Drama History
In August 2010, a copper and gold mine near Copiapó, Chile, caved in and trapped 33 men half a mile underground. What followed was one of the most watched survival...
Score 6.4
3

True Grit (2010)

Adventure Drama Western
When a hired hand guns down her father, fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross does not wait for justice to find her. She goes looking for it herself, negotiating hard with a disreputable,...
Score 7.3
4

Catch Me If You Can (2002)

Crime Drama
Before he turned nineteen, Frank Abagnale Jr. had already posed as a Pan Am pilot, a hospital physician, and a licensed attorney, cashing fraudulent checks across the country with a...
Score 8.0
5

Capricorn One (1977)

Action Drama Science Fiction
Three astronauts never actually went to Mars. NASA faked the entire mission on a remote desert soundstage, forcing the crew at gunpoint to perform for the cameras while the empty...
Score 6.8

James Brolin TV Shows

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Sweet Tooth (2021)

Drama Sci-Fi & Fantasy
A mysterious plague has reshaped civilization, and in its wake, children are being born as human-animal hybrids. Gus is one of them, a wide-eyed boy with deer antlers who has...
Score 7.8

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