James Hampton (actor)
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James Wade Hampton is an American
United States
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 actor
Actor
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, television director
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, and screenwriter
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.

Early life

Though born in Oklahoma City
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, Oklahoma
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, Hampton was reared in Dallas, Texas
Texas
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, where his father operated a cleaning business. He majored in theatre arts at the University of North Texas
University of North Texas
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 in Denton
Denton, Texas
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. After a series of failed jobs including bodyguard, bartender and photojournalist, he was inducted into the Army
United States Army
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 and served in "F" Troop of the 6th Cavalry. He was later stationed in Germany
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, performed with the USO, for which he won awards.

Following his service, he performed in summer stock
Summer stock theatre
Summer stock theatre is any theatre that presents stage productions only in the summer within the United States. The name combines both the seasonal time of year with the tradition of staging shows by a resident company, reusing stock scenery and costumes...

 in Texas
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Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

, and then moved to New York
New York
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, where he was given his first film role - the Academy Award-nominated short subject The Cliffdwellers. Amazingly, Hampton's next role came as the lead character in a May 1963 Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke
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 episode entitled "Jeb," featuring his pal and series regular Burt Reynolds.

Career

Hampton is known for his roles in The Doris Day Show
The Doris Day Show
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(as Leroy, the handyman), F Troop
F Troop
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(as Hannibal Dobbs, the incompetent bugler), The Longest Yard, Teen Wolf
Teen Wolf
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(1985), the Teen Wolf television series (1986 to 1989), Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
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(1988), and Sling Blade
Sling Blade
Sling Blade is a 1996 American drama film set in rural Arkansas, written and directed by Billy Bob Thornton, who also stars in the lead role. It tells the story of a mentally impaired man named Karl Childers who is released from a psychiatric hospital, where he has lived since killing his mother...

(1996). Hampton guest starred as Jim Rockford's cousin Aaron Ironwood in a 1975 episode of The Rockford Files
The Rockford Files
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. He was also a guest celebrity on the NBC
NBC
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 game show
Game show
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 Super Password in 1987. He received a Bronze Halo Award for Hawmps, a Golden Globe nomination for "Most Promising Newcomer" for the part of "Caretaker" in The Longest Yard.

Selected filmography

Film
Year Film Role Notes
1970 Soldier Blue
Soldier Blue
Soldier Blue is a 1970 American Revisionist Western movie directed by Ralph Nelson and inspired by events of the 1864 Sand Creek massacre in the Colorado Territory....

Pvt. Menzies
1973 The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing Jimmy, the telegraph operator Uncredited
1974 The Longest Yard Caretaker
1975 Hustle
Hustle (1975 film)
Hustle is a 1975 American neo-noir crime film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve, Ben Johnson, Paul Winfield, Eileen Brennan, Eddie Albert and Ernest Borgnine, which was released in 1975.-Cast:...

Bus Driver
1976 Hawmps!
Hawmps!
Hawmps! is a 1976 American film about a United States Cavalry experiment to introduce camels into the service in the western United States, specifically Wyoming. It was written by William Bickley, Joe Camp, and Michael Warren, directed by Joe Camp, and produced by Benji Films....

Howard Clemmons
1978 The Cat from Outer Space
The Cat from Outer Space
The Cat from Outer Space is a 1978 Disney film, starring Ronnie Schell, Ken Berry, Sandy Duncan, Harry Morgan, Roddy McDowall and McLean Stevenson.-Plot:...

Capt. Anderson
1979 The China Syndrome
The China Syndrome
The China Syndrome is a 1979 American thriller film that tells the story of a reporter and cameraman who discover safety coverups at a nuclear power plant. It stars Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady, James Hampton, Peter Donat, Richard Herd, and Wilford Brimley.The film was...

Bill Gibson
1980 Hangar 18
Hangar 18 (film)
Hangar 18 is a 1980 science fiction film that was released to capitalize on the UFO interest of the era. The film itself carries ties to Area 51, as well as ufology. Although it flopped , it tantalized those who saw government cover-ups of UFOs...

Lew Price Alternative tile: Invasion Force
1981 Condorman
Condorman
Condorman is a 1981 comedy/adventure film from Walt Disney Productions starring Michael Crawford and Oliver Reed. Inspired by Robert Sheckley's The Game of X, Condorman follows comic book illustrator Woodrow Wilkins' attempts to assist in the defection of a female Soviet KGB agent.-Plot:Woodrow...

Harry Oslo
1985 Teen Wolf Harold Howard
1986 Murder, She Wrote
Murder, She Wrote
Murder, She Wrote is an American television mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher. The series aired for 12 seasons from 1984 to 1996 on the CBS network, with 264 episodes transmitted. It was followed by four TV films and a spin-off series,...

Jerry Blevins
1987 Teen Wolf Too
Teen Wolf Too
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Uncle Harold Howard
1988 Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach is the 1988 installment in the Police Academy series, launched in 1984. The film was given a PG rating for language and ribald humor....

Mayor of Miami
1990 Pump Up the Volume
Pump Up the Volume (film)
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Arthur Watts
1991 The Giant of Thunder Mountain
The Giant of Thunder Mountain
The Giant of Thunder Mountain is a 1991 drama film starring Richard Kiel and Noley Thornton . Bart the Bear also appeared in the movie. The screenplay was jointly written by Richard Kiel, Chrystle Fiedler, and Tony Lozito. It was directed by James W...

Jesse
1996 Sling Blade
Sling Blade
Sling Blade is a 1996 American drama film set in rural Arkansas, written and directed by Billy Bob Thornton, who also stars in the lead role. It tells the story of a mentally impaired man named Karl Childers who is released from a psychiatric hospital, where he has lived since killing his mother...

Jerry Woolridge
2000 Danny and Max Sheriff
Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel Pediatrician
2008 Fire from Below Griffith
2011 The Association Gene Seward
Television
Year Title Role Notes
1963–1965 Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West....

Jeb Willis
Eliab Haggen
3 episodes, credited as Jim Hampton
1964 Death Valley Days
Death Valley Days
Death Valley Days is an American radio and television anthology series featuring true stories of the old American West, particularly the Death Valley area. Created in 1930 by Ruth Woodman, the program was broadcast on radio until 1945. It continued from 1952 to 1975 as a syndicated television series...

William Randolph Hearst 1 episode
1965 Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.The show renders the title as Gomer Pyle - USMC. is an American situation comedy that originally aired on CBS from September 25, 1964, to May 2, 1969. The series was a spinoff of The Andy Griffith Show, and the pilot was aired as the finale of the fourth season of The Andy...

Branch Eversole 1 episode, credited as Jim Hampton
Rawhide
Rawhide (TV series)
Rawhide is an American Western series that aired for eight seasons on the CBS network on Friday nights, from January 9, 1959 to September 3, 1965, before moving to Tuesday nights from September 14, 1965 until January 4, 1966, with a total of 217 black-and-white episodes...

The blackmailer 1 episode
1965–1967 F Troop
F Troop
F Troop is a satirical American television sitcom that originally aired for two seasons on ABC-TV. It debuted in the United States on September 14, 1965 and concluded its run on April 6, 1967 with a total of 65 episodes. The first season of 34 episodes was filmed in black-and-white, but the show...

Private Hannibal Shirley Dobbs 65 episodes
1967 Cimarron Strip
Cimarron Strip
Cimarron Strip is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from September 1967 to March 1968. Starring Stuart Whitman as Marshal Jim Crown, the series was produced by the creators of Gunsmoke...

Sam 1 episode
1968–1969 The Doris Day Show Leroy B. Simpson 14 episodes
1970 Bracken's World
Bracken's World
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J.F. Nash 1 episode
1972 The Wonderful World of Disney Aaron 2 episodes
The F.B.I. Claybourne 1 episode
1973 Hawkins
Hawkins (TV series)
Hawkins is a television series which aired for one season on CBS between 1973 and 1974. The mystery, created by Robert Hamner and David Karp, starred James Stewart as rural-bred lawyer Billy Jim Hawkins, who investigated the cases he was involved in...

Earl Coleman 1 episode
1974 The Manhunter
The Manhunter
The Manhunter is an American crime drama that was part of CBS' lineup for the 1974 - 1975 television season. The series was produced by Quinn Martin and starred Ken Howard as Dave Barret, a 1930s-era private investigator from Idaho...

Lon Tyrell 1 episode
1975 Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan is a 1975 two-part television movie, which dramatised the events following the 1964 disappearance and murder of three Civil Rights workers in Mississippi...

Harry Dudley Television movie
Mannix
Mannix
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Billy Lee 1 episode
The Rockford Files
The Rockford Files
The Rockford Files is an American television drama series which aired on the NBC network between September 13, 1974 and January 10, 1980. It has remained in regular syndication to the present day. The show stars James Garner as Los Angeles-based private investigator Jim Rockford and features Noah...

Aaron Ironwood 1 episode
1977 The Amazing Howard Hughes
The Amazing Howard Hughes
The Amazing Howard Hughes is a 1977 television movie about American aviation pioneer and filmmaker Howard Hughes, based on the book by Hughes' business partner Noah Dietrich. The film starred Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders, and Tovah Feldshuh....

Wilbur Peterson Television movie
1978 Centennial
Centennial (miniseries)
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Defense Attorney Prescott Miniseries
Miniseries
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1980 B.A.D. Cats
B.A.D. Cats
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Link Unknown episodes
The Dukes of Hazzard
The Dukes of Hazzard
The Dukes of Hazzard is an American television series that aired on the CBS television network from 1979 to 1985.The series was inspired by the 1975 film Moonrunners, which was also created by Gy Waldron and had many identical or similar character names and concepts.- Overview :The Dukes of Hazzard...

Sheriff Buster Moon Episode: "Return of the Ridge Raiders"
1982 World War III
World War III (TV miniseries)
World War III is an Emmy Award-winning miniseries that aired on the NBC network television in January 1982.-Plot:The miniseries begins in 1987 with a Soviet invasion of Alaska...

Richard Hickman Miniseries
1983 The Greatest American Hero
The Greatest American Hero
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Sheriff 1 episode
Tales of the Gold Monkey
Tales of the Gold Monkey
Tales of the Gold Monkey is a 1982 television show broadcast by ABC. Most critics saw it as the network's attempt to capitalize on the fame of the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark the previous year, in the same vein as Bring 'Em Back Alive on CBS...

Alan Shoemate Episode: "Cooked Goose"
1984 The Burning Bed
The Burning Bed
The Burning Bed is a non-fiction book by Faith McNulty about battered Dansville, Michigan, housewife Francine Hughes. It was adapted to a film with screenplay by Rose Leiman Goldemberg. After thirteen years of domestic abuse at the hands of her husband, James Berlin Hughes, she set fire to the...

Police Witness Television movie
Matt Houston
Matt Houston
Matt Houston is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1982 to 1985. Created by Lawrence Gordon, the series was produced by Aaron Spelling.-Synopsis:...

Mr. Stevens 2 episodes
1984–1985 Who's the Boss?
Who's the Boss?
Who's the Boss? is an American sitcom created by Martin Cohan and Blake Hunter, which aired on ABC from September 20, 1984 to April 25, 1992...

Herb
Officer
2 episodes
1984–1986 Murder, She Wrote
Murder, She Wrote
Murder, She Wrote is an American television mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher. The series aired for 12 seasons from 1984 to 1996 on the CBS network, with 264 episodes transmitted. It was followed by four TV films and a spin-off series,...

Veterinarian
Jerry Blevins
2 episodes
1985 Otherworld
Otherworld (TV series)
Otherworld is a short-lived American science fiction series that aired for only eight episodes from January 26 to March 16, 1985 on CBS. It was created by Roderick Taylor as a sort of Lost in Space on Earth...

Fred Roach 1 episode
Simon & Simon
Simon & Simon
Simon & Simon is an American detective television series starring Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker.-History:The original 1978 pilot called Pirate's Key was set in Florida...

Odell Mitchell 1 episode
1986–1989 Punky Brewster
Punky Brewster
Punky Brewster was an American sitcom about a girl named Punky Brewster being raised by her foster parent...

Alvin
Jimmy John
2 episodes
1986–1988 Teen Wolf Harold Howard (Voice) 21 episodes
1988 Superboy
Superboy (TV series)
Superboy is a half-hour live-action television series based on the fictional DC Comics comic book character Kal-El's early years as Superboy. The show ran from 1988–1992 in syndication...

Coach 1 episode
1989 Mama's Family
Mama's Family
Mama's Family is an American television sitcom that premiered on NBC on January 22, 1983. It was cancelled in May 1984, but NBC would continue to air reruns until September 1985. In September 1986, Mama's Family returned in first-run syndication, where it aired for an additional four seasons,...

Keith Wheeler Episode: "The Mama of Invention"
Days of our Lives
Days of our Lives
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Saul Taylor 49 episodes
1989–1990 Full House
Full House
Full House is an American sitcom television series. Set in San Francisco, the show chronicles widowed father Danny Tanner, who, after the death of his wife, enlists his best friend Joey Gladstone and his brother-in-law Jesse Katsopolis to help raise his three daughters, D.J., Stephanie, and...

Mr. Malatesta Episodes: "Working Mothers"
"El Problema Grande de D.J."
"The I.Q. Man"
1990 Perfect Strangers
Perfect Strangers (TV series)
Perfect Strangers is an American sitcom that ran for eight seasons from March 25, 1986, to August 6, 1993, on the ABC television network. Created by Dale McRaven, the series chronicles the rocky coexistence of midwestern American Larry Appleton and his distant cousin from eastern Mediterranean...

Mac McIntyre Episode: "Nightmare Vacation"
Newhart
Newhart
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Father Ken 1 episode
Get a Life
Get a Life (TV series)
Get a Life is a television sitcom that was broadcast in the United States on the Fox Network from September 23, 1990, to March 8, 1992. The show starred Chris Elliott as a 30-year-old paperboy named Chris Peterson. Peterson lived in an apartment above his parents' garage...

Fletcher 1 episode
1991 The Hogan Family
The Hogan Family
The Hogan Family is an American television situation comedy that aired from March 1, 1986 to July 20, 1991...

Raymond 1 episode
1992–1993 Evening Shade
Evening Shade
Evening Shade was an American sitcom television series that aired on CBS from 1990 to 1994. The series starred Burt Reynolds as Wood Newton, an ex-professional football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers, who returns to rural Evening Shade, Arkansas to coach a high school football team with a long...

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Director, 7 episodes
1993 Hearts Afire
Hearts Afire
Hearts Afire is a sitcom that aired from September 14, 1992 to February 1, 1995 on CBS. It starred John Ritter and Markie Post, with Post portraying a journalist and Ritter playing a senator's aide....

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Director, 1 episode
1994 Melrose Place Harry Alan Episode: "It's a Bad World After All"
1995 Hope and Gloria
Hope and Gloria
Hope and Gloria is an American sitcom produced by Warner Bros. Television and aired on NBC from March 9, 1995, through June 22, 1996. The show was canceled after 35 episodes...

Bob 1 episode
1997 Fired Up
Fired Up (TV series)
Fired Up is a short-lived 1997–1998 situation comedy airing on NBC. It lasted for two seasons and 28 episodes. The series, the first from Grammnet Productions, starred Sharon Lawrence and Leah Remini. The series was about a self-centered promotions executive and her mouthy assistant...

Ben Franklin 1 episode
1997–1998 Grace Under Fire
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Director, 4 episodes
Smart Guy
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Director, 3 episodes
Sister, Sister
Sister, Sister (TV series)
Sister, Sister is an American television sitcom about identical twin girls Tia Landry and Tamera Campbell , who were separated and adopted at birth, when one day they come face-to-face after 14 years apart....

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Director, 5 episodes
1998–1999 Linc's
Linc's
Linc's is an American comedy-drama based in a bar in Washington D.C.. The series starred Steven Williams, Pam Grier and Golden Brooks, and aired on Showtime for two seasons from 1998 to 2000 before being cancelled....

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Director, 3 episodes

Award nominations

Year Award Result Category Film or series
1975 Golden Globe Award Nominated Most Promising Newcomer - Male The Longest Yard

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