John Cullum

Mar 02, 1930 (95 years old) in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

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).

Known For

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Barry Moredock

Law & Order

Harold Dorning

The Blacklist

Ted King

The Good Wife

Cardinal James

Tony Awards

Self - Nominee/Performer

Mad Men

Lee Garner, Sr.

The Middle

Big Mike

30 Rock

Mysterious Man

Great Performances

Lawyer Royall

David Greene

Credits

Simchas and Sorrows 2022

Nate

★ 3
The Acolyte 2021

Arch Pontifex

★ NR
John Cullum: An Accidental Star 2021

Self

★ NR
Jungleland 2020

Yates

★ 6.5
Prodigal Son 2019

Logan Zeiger

★ 8.1
Christine 2016

Bob Andersen

★ 6.9
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt 2015

Daddy's Daddy

★ 7.1
The Historian 2014

Brigston Hadley

★ 3.3
Madam Secretary 2014

Senator Beau Carpenter

★ 7
Before We Go 2014

Harry

★ 6.7
Love Is Strange 2014

Father Raymond

★ 6.3
Adult World 2014

Stan

★ 6
Kill Your Darlings 2013

Professor Steeves

★ 7
The Blacklist 2013

Ted King

★ 7.6
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel: Live from Lincoln Center 2013

The Starkeeper

★ 7.3
Kilimanjaro 2013

Milton

★ 4.8
The Conspirator 2011

Justice Wylie

★ 6.6
All Good Things 2010

Richard Panatierre

★ 6
Lafayette: The Lost Hero 2010

Narrator

★ NR
The Middle 2009

Big Mike

★ 7.6
The Good Wife 2009

Cardinal James

★ 7.6
Mad Men 2007

Lee Garner, Sr.

★ 8.1
30 Rock 2006

Mysterious Man

★ 7.5
The Night Listener 2006

Pap Noone

★ 5.5
Secrets of Angels, Demons and Masons 2005

Narrator

★ 6
The Notorious Bettie Page 2005

Preacher in Nashville

★ 6.3
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson 2004

Other Voices (voice)

★ 7.1
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip 2003

Other Voices (voice)

★ 7.3
Ricochet River 2001

Link Curren

★ 5
Urinetown 2001

Caldwell B. Cladwell

★ 7.7
Held Up 1999

Jack

★ 5.5
Roswell 1999

James Valenti Sr.

★ 7.7
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 1999

Barry Moredock

★ 7.9
Inherit the Wind 1999

Judge Merle Coffey

★ 6.1
The Magnificent Seven 1998

Reverend Owen Mosley

★ 6
The Secret Life of Algernon 1997

Algernon Pendleton

★ 4
Touched by an Angel 1994

Mark Twain

★ 7.2
ER 1994

David Greene

★ 7.8
Law & Order 1990

Harold Dorning

★ 7.4
Northern Exposure 1990

Holling Vincoeur

★ 7.9
Money, Power, Murder. 1989

Rev. Endicott

★ 3.8
Quantum Leap 1989

John O'Malley / Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote

★ 8
Shootdown 1988

Robert Allardyce

★ 5.4
Sweet Country 1987

Ben

★ 4.4
Marie: A True Story 1985

Deputy Attorney General

★ 5.6
Spenser: For Hire 1985

★ 6.7
The Equalizer 1985

Stuart Cane

★ 7.1
The Act 1984

The President

★ 2.4
The Day After 1983

Jim Dahlberg

★ 6.8
The Prodigal 1983

Elton Stuart

★ 8
Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences 1982

Carl Sandburg

★ NR
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry 1978

Mr. Jamison

★ 8
The Man Without a Country 1973

Aaron Burr

★ 6.5
1776 1972

Edward Rutledge (SC)

★ 6.9
Great Performances 1971

Lawyer Royall

★ 5.5
The Outcasts 1968

★ 5.3
Androcles and the Lion 1967

Roman Captain

★ NR
Hawaii 1966

Immanuel Quigley

★ 6.2
The Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner 1966

Self

★ NR
Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre 1964

Laertes

★ 6.5
All the Way Home 1963

Andrew

★ 6.5
The Edge of Night 1956

★ 6.1
Tony Awards 1956

Self - Nominee/Performer

★ 5.9