James Cromwell played kindly Farmer Hoggett in the 1995 movie Babe, winning an Oscar nomination as best supporting actor for the role. Cromwell was already a veteran character actor who had begun working in television in the early 1970s. He played Archie Bunker's friend Stretch Cunningham on the sitcom All In the Family and made dozens of guest appearances in shows like M*A*S*H (with Alan Alda) and Three's Company (with Suzanne Somers).

Credits include: Airplane!, Gremlins, Breaking Bad, Beverly Hills Cop and Better Call Saul

Credits include: Sleeper, Riot in Cell Block 11, The Grissom Gang, Torpedo Run and Cash McCall

Credits include: Hell Night, Nightmares, Mistress of the Apes, Stitches and The Girl in the Empty Grave

Credits include: Waitress, A Face in the Crowd, The Andy Griffith Show, No Time for Sergeants and Matlock

Credits include: Bigger Than Life, Compulsion, Edge of the City, The Catered Affair and Spider-Man Strikes Back

Credits include: Bride of Re-Animator, Dark Night of the Scarecrow, Evilspeak, The Girl in the Empty Grave and Hollywood Zap

Credits include: The Pajama Game, Bells Are Ringing, Frontier Marshal, Gidget Goes Hawaiian and Gidget Goes to Rome

Credits include: Devil's Angels, Tammy and the Doctor, The Suicide, Cover Me Babe and The Girl in the Empty Grave

Credits include: How to Beat the High Cost of Living, People Are Alike All Over, The Girl in the Empty Grave, Babe and Amok Time