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

• 2022Simchas and Sorrows — Nate
• 2021John Cullum: An Accidental Star — Self, Idea
• 2021The Acolyte — Arch Pontifex
• 2020Jungleland — Yates
• Prodigal Son — Logan Zeiger
• 2016Christine — Bob Andersen
• Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt — Daddy's Daddy
• 2014Adult World — Stan
• 2014Before We Go — Harry
• 2014Love Is Strange — Father Raymond
• Madam Secretary — Senator Beau Carpenter, Seantor Beau Carpenter
• 2014The Historian — Brigston Hadley
• 2013Kilimanjaro — Milton
• 2013Kill Your Darlings — Professor Steeves
• 2013Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel: Live from Lincoln Center — The Starkeeper
• The Blacklist — Ted King
• 2011The Conspirator — Justice Wylie
• 2010All Good Things — Richard Panatierre
• Nurse Jackie — Wally
• The Good Wife — Cardinal James
• The Middle — Big Mike
• Damages — Ed O'Malley
• Mad Men — Lee Garner, Sr.
• 30 Rock — Mysterious Man
• 2006The Night Listener — Pap Noone
• 2006The Notorious Bettie Page — Preacher in Nashville
• 2005Secrets of Angels, Demons and Masons — Narrator
• 2004Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson — Other Voices (voice)
• 2003Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip — Other Voices (voice)
• 2001Ricochet River — Link Curren
• 1999Held Up — Jack
• 1999Inherit the Wind — Judge Merle Coffey
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Barry Moredock
• Roswell — James Valenti Sr.
• The Magnificent Seven — Reverend Owen Mosley
• 1997The Secret Life of Algernon — Algernon Pendleton, Writer
• ER — David Greene
• Touched by an Angel — Mark Twain
• Law & Order — Harold Dorning, Bernard Powell, Sr.
• Northern Exposure — Holling Vincoeur
• 1989Money, Power, Murder. — Rev. Endicott
• Quantum Leap — John O'Malley / Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote, Director
• 1988Shootdown — Robert Allardyce
• 1987Sweet Country — Ben
• 1985Marie: A True Story — Deputy Attorney General
• Spenser: For Hire
• The Equalizer — Stuart Cane, Judge Howard Tainey
• 1984The Act — The President
• 1983The Day After — Jim Dahlberg
• 1983The Prodigal — Elton Stuart
• 1982Carl Sandburg: Echoes and Silences — Carl Sandburg
• 1978Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry — Mr. Jamison
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry — Mr. Jamison
• 1973The Man Without a Country — Aaron Burr
• 19721776 — Edward Rutledge (SC)
• Great Performances — Walter, Self, Lawyer Royall
• The Outcasts
• 1967Androcles and the Lion — Roman Captain
• 1966Hawaii — Immanuel Quigley
• 1964Hamlet — Laertes
• 1963All the Way Home — Andrew
• The Edge of Night

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2010Lafayette: The Lost Hero — Self - Narrator
• American Playhouse — Self / Carl Sandburg
• 1966The Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Winner, Self - Nominee / Performer