who played stretch cunningham in all in the family
James Cromwell Cromwell's first television performance was in a 1974 episode of The Rockford Files playing Terry,[5] a tennis instructor. A few weeks later,[6] he began a recurring role as Stretch Cunningham on All in the Family. In 1975, he took his first lead role on television as Bill Lewis in the short-lived Hot l Baltimore, appeared on M*A*S*H as Captain Leo Bardonaro, in the episode "Last Laugh" in Season 6 and a year later he made his film debut in Neil Simon's classic detective spoof Murder by Death.[citation needed]