- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- March 2, 1930
- Place of Birth
- Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
John Cullum
John Cullum (born March 2, 1930) is an American actor and singer. He is a five-time Tony Award nominee and two-time winner, both for Best Leading Actor in a Musical (Shenandoah in 1975 and On the Twentieth Century in 1978). On screen, Cullum is best known for his starring role as tavern owner Holling Vincoeur in Northern Exposure (1990 - 1995), which earned him an Emmy nomination. He also had recurring roles on ER, Law & Order: SVU, The Middle, and Madam Secretary. His film appearances include Hawaii (1966), 1776 (1972), All Good Things (2010), Kill Your Darlings (2013), Before We Go (2014), and Christine (2016).
Filmography
movieSimchas and Sorrows
2022 · Nate
movieThe Acolyte
2021 · Arch Pontifex
movieJohn Cullum: An Accidental Star
2021 · Self, Idea
movieJungleland
2020 · Yates
tvProdigal Son
2019 · Logan Zeiger
movieChristine
2016 · Bob Andersen
tvUnbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
2015 · Daddy's Daddy
movieThe Historian
2014 · Brigston Hadley
tvMadam Secretary
2014 · Senator Beau Carpenter, Seantor Beau Carpenter
movieBefore We Go
2014 · Harry
movieLove Is Strange
2014 · Father Raymond
movieAdult World
2014 · Stan
movieKill Your Darlings
2013 · Professor Steeves
tvThe Blacklist
2013 · Ted King
movieRodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel: Live from Lincoln Center
2013 · The Starkeeper
movieKilimanjaro
2013 · Milton
movieThe Conspirator
2011 · Justice Wylie
movieAll Good Things
2010 · Richard Panatierre
movieLafayette: The Lost Hero
2010 · Self - Narrator
tvThe Middle
2009 · Big Mike
tvThe Good Wife
2009 · Cardinal James
tvNurse Jackie
2009 · Wally
tvDamages
2007 · Ed O'Malley
tvMad Men
2007 · Lee Garner, Sr.
tv30 Rock
2006 · Mysterious Man
movieThe Notorious Bettie Page
2006 · Preacher in Nashville
movieThe Night Listener
2006 · Pap Noone
movieSecrets of Angels, Demons and Masons
2005 · Narrator
movieUnforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004 · Other Voices (voice)
movieHoratio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
2003 · Other Voices (voice)
movieRicochet River
2001 · Link Curren
movieHeld Up
1999 · Jack
tvRoswell
1999 · James Valenti Sr.
tvLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · Barry Moredock
movieInherit the Wind
1999 · Judge Merle Coffey
tvThe Magnificent Seven
1998 · Reverend Owen Mosley
movieThe Secret Life of Algernon
1997 · Algernon Pendleton, Writer
tvTouched by an Angel
1994 · Mark Twain
tvER
1994 · David Greene
tvLaw & Order
1990 · Harold Dorning, Bernard Powell, Sr.
tvNorthern Exposure
1990 · Holling Vincoeur
movieMoney, Power, Murder.
1989 · Rev. Endicott
tvQuantum Leap
1989 · John O'Malley / Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote, Director
movieShootdown
1988 · Robert Allardyce
movieSweet Country
1987 · Ben
movieMarie: A True Story
1985 · Deputy Attorney General
tvSpenser: For Hire
1985
tvThe Equalizer
1985 · Stuart Cane, Judge Howard Tainey
movieThe Act
1984 · The President
movieThe Day After
1983 · Jim Dahlberg
movieThe Prodigal
1983 · Elton Stuart
movieCarl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences
1982 · Carl Sandburg
tvAmerican Playhouse
1982 · Self / Carl Sandburg
movieRoll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
1978 · Mr. Jamison
tvRoll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
1978 · Mr. Jamison
movieThe Man Without a Country
1973 · Aaron Burr
movie1776
1972 · Edward Rutledge (SC)
tvGreat Performances
1971 · Lawyer Royall, Walter, Self
tvThe Outcasts
1968
movieAndrocles and the Lion
1967 · Roman Captain
movieHawaii
1966 · Immanuel Quigley
movieThe Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner
1966 · Self
movieHamlet
1964 · Laertes
movieAll the Way Home
1963 · Andrew
tvThe Edge of Night
1956
tvTony Awards
1956 · Self - Winner, Self - Nominee / Performer