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James Brolin

James Brolin

Birthday: 1940-07-18 | Place of Birth: 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. 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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
Ransom Canyon

as    Cap Fuller

2023
La Californie !

as    Self - Actor

2023
Amityville: An Origin Story

as    Self- Archive

2022
Lightyear

as    Zurg (voice)

2018
Royal Hearts

as    Hank Pavlik

2017
Being Rose

as    Max

2016
The Steps

as    Ed

2016
A Beautiful Day

as    Gene Thompson

2016
2015
Sisters

as    Bucky Ellis

2015
The 33

as    Jeff Hart

2015
Life in Pieces

as    John Short

2015
Accidental Love

as    Speaker Buck McCoy

2014
It Came From Connemara!

as    Self

2013
Christmas with Tucker

as    Bo

2011
Love, Wedding, Marriage

as    Bradley

2011
Last Will

as    Det. Sloan

2010
Angel Camouflaged

as    Salt

2009
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard

as    Ben Selleck

2009
Bitter/Sweet

as    Calvert Jenkins

2009
Bad Girl Island

as    Terry Bamba

2008
Last Chance Harvey

as    Brian

2008
Lost City Raiders

as    John Kubiac

2008
Evolution of the Apes

as    Narrator

2008
2008
The Secret Behind Escape

as    Narrator