John Cullum
Acting • Born 1930-03-02
Biography
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
69 credits
Simchas and Sorrows
Movie • 2022
Nate
The Day After
Movie • 1983
Jim Dahlberg
The Night Listener
Movie • 2006
Pap Noone
The Acolyte
Movie • 2021
Arch Pontifex
Hawaii
Movie • 1966
Immanuel Quigley
All Good Things
Movie • 2010
Richard Panatierre
Held Up
Movie • 1999
Jack
All the Way Home
Movie • 1963
Andrew
Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Movie • 1964
Laertes
Secrets of Angels, Demons and Masons
Movie • 2005
Narrator
Lafayette: The Lost Hero
Movie • 2010
Self - Narrator
Money, Power, Murder.
Movie • 1989
Rev. Endicott
Ricochet River
Movie • 2001
Link Curren
Kilimanjaro
Movie • 2013
Milton
Shootdown
Movie • 1988
Robert Allardyce
The Prodigal
Movie • 1983
Elton Stuart
Adult World
Movie • 2014
Stan
The Historian
Movie • 2014
Brigston Hadley
The Act
Movie • 1984
The President
1776
Movie • 1972
Edward Rutledge (SC)
Before We Go
Movie • 2014
Harry
Christine
Movie • 2016
Bob Andersen
Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences
Movie • 1982
Carl Sandburg
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel: Live from Lincoln Center
Movie • 2013
The Starkeeper
Urinetown
Movie • 2001
Caldwell B. Cladwell
Marie: A True Story
Movie • 1985
Deputy Attorney General
The Notorious Bettie Page
Movie • 2006
Preacher in Nashville
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
Movie • 2003
Other Voices (voice)
Inherit the Wind
Movie • 1999
Judge Merle Coffey
Kill Your Darlings
Movie • 2013
Professor Steeves
Sweet Country
Movie • 1987
Ben
The Secret Life of Algernon
Movie • 1997
Algernon Pendleton
Love Is Strange
Movie • 2014
Father Raymond
The Man Without a Country
Movie • 1973
Aaron Burr
The Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner
Movie • 1966
Self
Jungleland
Movie • 2020
Yates
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Movie • 2004
Other Voices (voice)
Androcles and the Lion
Movie • 1967
Roman Captain
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Movie • 1978
Mr. Jamison
John Cullum: An Accidental Star
Movie • 2021
Self
The Conspirator
Movie • 2011
Justice Wylie
Mad Men
TV • 2007
Lee Garner, Sr.
The Middle
TV • 2009
Big Mike
Spenser: For Hire
TV • 1985
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV • 1999
Barry Moredock
Quantum Leap
TV • 1989
John O'Malley / Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote
The Equalizer
TV • 1985
Stuart Cane
Roswell
TV • 1999
James Valenti Sr.
The Edge of Night
TV • 1956
Northern Exposure
TV • 1990
Holling Vincoeur
ER
TV • 1994
David Greene
The Outcasts
TV • 1968
Prodigal Son
TV • 2019
Logan Zeiger
The Good Wife
TV • 2009
Cardinal James
30 Rock
TV • 2006
Mysterious Man
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Harold Dorning
Law & Order
TV • 1990
Bernard Powell, Sr.
The Blacklist
TV • 2013
Ted King
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
TV • 2015
Daddy's Daddy
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
TV • 1978
Mr. Jamison
The Equalizer
TV • 1985
Judge Howard Tainey
Touched by an Angel
TV • 1994
Mark Twain
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Walter
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Self
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Lawyer Royall
Madam Secretary
TV • 2014
Senator Beau Carpenter
The Magnificent Seven
TV • 1998
Reverend Owen Mosley
Madam Secretary
TV • 2014
Seantor Beau Carpenter
Damages
TV • 2007
Ed O'Malley