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[edit] Blacklisting

What was he blacklisted from? Attending college? As a member of the communist party? Being cast in movies? The text "His father, director John Cromwell, was blacklisted during the McCarthy era." does not specify, and the link only leads to general use of the word "blacklisting" (I am not sure of the answer myself so I cannot fix it)


[edit] appearance in Enterprise

"We had to get clearance from James Cromwell and the actor playing the Vulcan" to use the film footage, he said, and if they had wanted too much money, Enterprise would not have been able to use the material. He believed that they had agreed to accept scale, and they were lucky in that production designer Herman Zimmerman had saved the entire lower portion of the Vulcan ship from the movie, which was brought out of storage and used to shoot three new brief shots. Gaskill noted that Cromwell did not have any lines in the new material, which led Sussman to laugh that in fact Cromwell doesn't appear in the new material at all; only parts of Cochrane are seen as a grizzled man commits the atrocity against the Vulcan.

from TrekToday

Heliocentric 14:37, 2005 May 3 (UTC)

[edit] but he does have a lot of soul

I think we can safely assume it's a different James Cromwell who's listed as a member of the Black Panther Party. MK2 05:23, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

He looks at least as African American to me as Michael Jackson. Aragorn2 20:53, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
Just to clarify — this James Cromwell, the actor, did in fact work with the Black Panther Party. See the CNN interview linked from the article page. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 04:55, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Height

Are we sure it's 6' 7"? That seems unusually tall, I don't recall him being that tall in any of the films I've seen him in. and to say that he was just "2 inches taller than the rest of the cast" likewise implies a pretty stinkin' tall cast.

I wondered about this -- just noticed him looming over J. Frakes on a TNG. ("The Hunted".) IMDB says 6'5", though. Any other sources that say different? (Or indeed, similarly?) Alai 04:26, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure at his tallest he was 6' 7". Although with age he may have went down to about 6' 6". At present IMDB is saying 6' 7"[1] and several other news sources say 2 meters or 6' 7".[2][3][4] He some roles he tends to slouch and be bending over a fair amount. He really is quite tall though.--T. Anthony 09:15, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Picture

Can we get a better picture? This one seems to have someone's watermark across the middle. --Kynn (talk) 21:26, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] MASH

He appeared in a MASH episode as a practical joker friend of BJ -- and yes, he towered over Alan Alda and BJ, slouchy with it. Julia Rossi (talk) 07:44, 14 May 2008 (UTC)