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James Hampton is a Actor American born on 9 july 1936 at Oklahoma City (USA)
James Wade Hampton (born July 9, 1936) is an American actor, television director, and screenwriter.
Hampton was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and raised in Dallas, Texas, where his father operated a cleaning business. He majored in theatre arts at the University of North Texas in Denton. While attending the University of North Texas, he was a member of the Gamma Lambda chapter of Kappa Alpha Order. After a series of failed jobs including bodyguard, bartender, and photojournalist, he was inducted into the United States Army. He was stationed in Germany and performed with the USO, for which he won awards.
Following his service, he performed in summer stock in Texas and then moved to New York City, 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 episode entitled "Jeb", featuring his friend and series regular Burt Reynolds.
Career
Hampton is known for his roles in CBS's The Doris Day Show (as Leroy, the handyman); ABC's F Troop (as Hannibal Dobbs the incompetent bugler); Robert Aldrich's The Longest Yard (1974); Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan (1975); Teen Wolf (1985); the Teen Wolf television series (1986 to 1989); Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach (1988); and Sling Blade (1996). Hampton guest starred as Jim Rockford's cousin Aaron Ironwood in a 1975 episode of NBC's The Rockford Files. He received a HALO Award for Hawmps, and a Golden Globe nomination for "Most Promising Newcomer" for the part of "Caretaker" in The Longest Yard.
In 1964, Hampton was cast as publisher William Randolph Hearst in the episode "The Paper Dynasty" of the syndicated[ western television series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. In the story line, Hearst struggles to turn a profit despite increased circulation of the San Francisco Examiner. James Lanphier (1920-1969) plays Ambrose Bierce; Robert O. Cornthwaite was cast as Sam Chamberlain.
In 2012, Hampton appeared in an advertisement on MeTV touting some of the shows he had played in including Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. and The Rockford Files.
Personal life
Hampton has been married to actress Mary Deese since 2002. He currently resides in Trophy Club, Texas.
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Birth name James Wade Hampton
Nationality USA
Birth 9 july 1936 at Oklahoma City (USA)
Death 7 april 2021 (at 84 years)
Nationality USA
Birth 9 july 1936 at Oklahoma City (USA)
Death 7 april 2021 (at 84 years)
Biography
Early lifeHampton was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and raised in Dallas, Texas, where his father operated a cleaning business. He majored in theatre arts at the University of North Texas in Denton. While attending the University of North Texas, he was a member of the Gamma Lambda chapter of Kappa Alpha Order. After a series of failed jobs including bodyguard, bartender, and photojournalist, he was inducted into the United States Army. He was stationed in Germany and performed with the USO, for which he won awards.
Following his service, he performed in summer stock in Texas and then moved to New York City, 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 episode entitled "Jeb", featuring his friend and series regular Burt Reynolds.
Career
Hampton is known for his roles in CBS's The Doris Day Show (as Leroy, the handyman); ABC's F Troop (as Hannibal Dobbs the incompetent bugler); Robert Aldrich's The Longest Yard (1974); Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan (1975); Teen Wolf (1985); the Teen Wolf television series (1986 to 1989); Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach (1988); and Sling Blade (1996). Hampton guest starred as Jim Rockford's cousin Aaron Ironwood in a 1975 episode of NBC's The Rockford Files. He received a HALO Award for Hawmps, and a Golden Globe nomination for "Most Promising Newcomer" for the part of "Caretaker" in The Longest Yard.
In 1964, Hampton was cast as publisher William Randolph Hearst in the episode "The Paper Dynasty" of the syndicated[ western television series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. In the story line, Hearst struggles to turn a profit despite increased circulation of the San Francisco Examiner. James Lanphier (1920-1969) plays Ambrose Bierce; Robert O. Cornthwaite was cast as Sam Chamberlain.
In 2012, Hampton appeared in an advertisement on MeTV touting some of the shows he had played in including Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. and The Rockford Files.
Personal life
Hampton has been married to actress Mary Deese since 2002. He currently resides in Trophy Club, Texas.
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Big Stone Gap (2016)
, 1h43Directed by Adriana Trigiani
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Patrick Wilson, Ashley Judd, Jenna Elfman, Whoopi Goldberg, Chris Sarandon, Jasmine Guy
Roles Reverend Manning
Rating57%
A story revolving around the life of Ave Marie Mulligan, in the heart of her community Big Stone Gap, Virgina.
The Last Ride (2012)
, 1h44Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Musical
Actors Kaley Cuoco, Henry Thomas, Ray McKinnon, Jesse James, Stephen Tobolowsky, James Hampton
Roles Judge Matheny
Rating58%
The film centers around the final days of Hank Williams' life when he was being driven by a young auto mechanic to his New Year's Eve shows in West Virginia and Ohio. The film chronicles their relations, their adventures, and Williams' drug and alcohol dependency, which later resulted in his death on January 1, 1953.
Sling Blade (1996)
, 2h15Directed by Billy Bob Thornton
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Dwight Yoakam, J. T. Walsh, John Ritter, Lucas Black, Robert Duvall, Billy Bob Thornton
Roles Jerry Woolridge
Rating79%
Karl Childers (Billy Bob Thornton) is a mentally disabled Arkansas man who has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for having killed his mother and her lover. Although thoroughly "institutionalized," Karl is deemed fit to be released into the outside world. Prior to his release, he is interviewed by a local college newspaper reporter, to whom he recounts the brutal murder of his mother and her boyfriend with a Kaiser blade - during which scene he notes to the reporter that, "Some folks call it a sling blade. I call it a kaiser blade," the line from which the film derives its name. Karl continues, saying that he killed the man because he thought he was raping his mother. When he discovered that his mother was a willing participant in the affair, he killed her too.
Genres Drama, Western
Actors Cloris Leachman, Richard Kiel, Jack Elam, William Sanderson, George Buck Flower, Noley Thornton
Roles Jesse (Townsman)
Rating59%
In the town of Waterton, signs of a circus are going up. Reports of a man-eating bear-like creature have prompted several hunters to buy some new bear traps. Meanwhile, at a country house, a group of boys are holding a meeting. Several are telling a story about a giant creature supposedly inhabiting the nearby Thunder Mountain, but the others don't believe them. Later that evening two of the boys, Tommy (Chance Michael Corbitt) and Ben (Ryan Todd) set out to find the mountain, but they get caught in a thunderstorm and barely escape getting hit by lightning (this is what gives Thunder Mountain its name). They take refuge inside a supposedly abandoned house. Whilst there, they find mysterious statues and paintings, one of which is in the shape of a bear and the other in the shape of a giant. Suddenly, the owner of the cottage returns. They boys try to hide from him but he flips open the table they are hiding under and they escape back into the woods. When they reach home, they tell their family their amazing story, but no one believes them. The next morning, they set out with another boy, Zeke MacGruder Daniel Pipoly) to go back to the cottage and find the answer to what the giant is. Their younger sister, Amy (Noley Thornton) follows them, but almost gets caught in a bear trap. The boys tell her to leave but she persists and continues following them.
Pump Up the Volume (1990)
, 1h42Directed by Allan Moyle
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Politique, Radio, Political films
Actors Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Andy Romano, Juliet Landau, Lala Sloatman, Annie Ross
Roles Arthur Watts
Rating71%
Mark Hunter (Slater), a high school student in a sleepy suburb of Phoenix, Arizona, starts an FM pirate radio station that broadcasts from the basement of his parents' house. Mark is a loner, an outsider, whose only outlet for his teenage angst and aggression is his unauthorized radio station. His pirate station's theme song is "Everybody Knows" by Leonard Cohen and there are glimpses of cassettes by such alternative musicians as The Jesus and Mary Chain, Camper Van Beethoven, Primal Scream, Soundgarden, Ice-T, Bad Brains, Concrete Blonde, Henry Rollins, and The Pixies. By day, Mark is seen as a loner, hardly talking to anyone around him; by night, he expresses his outsider views about what is wrong with American society. When he speaks his mind about what is going on at his school and in the community, more and more of his fellow students tune in to hear his show.
, 1h30Directed by Ricou Browning, Alan Myerson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Action, Crime
Actors David Graf, Michael Winslow, Bubba Smith, Leslie Easterbrook, Matt McCoy, G. W. Bailey
Roles Mayor of Miami
Rating46%
Captain Harris finally finds the goods he needs to push Commandant Eric Lassard out at the Police Academy: he is one year late for mandatory retirement. But before he retires, Lassard is chosen as "Police Officer of the Decade", and brings his favorite graduates—Sgts. Hightower, Jones, Tackleberry and Hooks, Lt. Callahan, and new graduate Officer Thomas "House" Conklin—to the National Police Chiefs Convention in Miami Beach to celebrate with him. While there, they meet his nephew, Sgt. Nick Lassard of the Miami Police Department. Lassard unwittingly takes a bag belonging to jewel thieves containing stolen diamonds.
Teen Wolf Too (1987)
, 1h34Directed by Rod Daniel, Christopher Leitch
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes L'adolescence, Films about animals, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Teen movie
Actors Jason Bateman, Kim Darby, John Astin, Paul Sand, James Hampton, Kathleen Freeman
Roles Uncle Harold
Rating34%
Todd Howard (Jason Bateman), the cousin of Scott Howard, has recently been accepted into Hamilton University on a full athletic scholarship on the recommendation of Coach Bobby Finstock (Paul Sand), who was Scott's basketball coach at Beacontown High. Finstock's hope is that Todd has the family genes to become a werewolf and turn Finstock's new struggling boxing team into championship contenders. Having never been much good at sports, and because he is more interested in being a veterinarian, Todd is certain that Finstock has the wrong guy. During a meet and greet reception of school alumni, Todd has his first "wolf-out" while dancing with a seductive hostess. At first, Todd is horrified by his "family affliction", and fellow students begin to harass him. Then, during his first boxing match, after nearly getting knocked out, Todd has his second "wolf-out" only this time he is able to display his supernatural agility and strength and has a dramatic come from behind victory, thus earning the admiration of the students as well as the strict Dean Dunn (John Astin).
Teen Wolf (1985)
, 1h31Directed by Rod Daniel
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about animals, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Sports films, Basketball films, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Teen movie
Actors Michael J. Fox, Lorie Griffin, James Hampton, Susan Ursitti, Jerry Levine, Mark Arnold
Roles Harold Howard
Rating61%
Seventeen-year-old high school student Scott Howard (Michael J. Fox) is sick of being average and wishes he were special. His father, Harold (James Hampton), runs a local hardware store. Scott plays basketball for his high school's team, the Beavers, with a not-so-good win-loss record. The girl of his dreams, Pamela Wells (Lorie Griffin), is dating Mick McAllister (Mark Arnold), a jerk from an opposing high school team, the Dragons. After another of the team's losses, Scott begins to notice strange changes to his body. While at a party, Scott keeps undergoing changes and eventually he returns home, locks himself in the bathroom, and undergoes a complete change and becomes a werewolf, while his father demands that he open the door. He tries to refuse, only to finally give in and find his father has also transformed. Harold never told his son about the condition because "sometimes it skips a generation" and he was hoping it would not happen to Scott. Needing someone else to share his secret, Scott confides his best friend, Stiles Stilinski (Jerry Levine), who accepts Scott's werewolf status. However, Scott inadvertently reveals his transformation to the public at one of his basketball games. After shortly stunning the crowd with The Wolf, Scott goes on to amaze them with his newfound basketball skills.
The Burning Bed (1984)
, 1h35Directed by Robert Greenwald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary, Crime, Politic
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about families, Feminist films, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about domestic violence, Political films, Disaster films
Actors Farrah Fawcett, Paul Le Mat, Richard Masur, Grace Zabriskie, Penelope Milford, James T. Callahan
Roles Police Witness
Rating71%
Après des années de coups et de terreur, Francine Hughes a mis le feu au lit de son agresseur pendant qu'il dormait. Ses aveux et le procès pour meurtre qui a suivi ont enthousiasmé la nation. Une histoire dramatique d'une femme poussée à bout.
World War III (1982)
Directed by Boris Sagal, David Greene
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Arme nucléaire
Actors David Soul, Brian Keith, Cathy Lee Crosby, Jeroen Krabbé, Robert Prosky, Katherine Helmond
Roles Richard Hickman
Rating65%
Ce téléfilm met en scène les prémices d'une guerre mondiale entre les États-Unis d'Amérique et l'URSS. L’action se passe en 1987. À la suite d'une mission de parachutistes de l'armée rouge envoyée en Alaska pour détruire l'oléoduc trans-Alaska et qui se trouve confrontée à une unité de la garde nationale des États-Unis en manœuvre, la situation dégénère en une guerre nucléaire.
Condorman (1981)
, 1h30Directed by Charles Jarrott, Denys Granier-Deferre
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes La bande dessinée, Spy films, Superhero films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed, Barbara Carrera, James Hampton, Dana Elcar, Vernon Dobtcheff
Roles Harry Oslo
Rating56%
Woodrow "Woody" Wilkins is an imaginative, yet eccentric, comic book writer and illustrator who demands a sense of realism for his comic book hero "Condorman", to the point where he crafts a Condorman flying suit of his own and launches himself off the Eiffel Tower. The test flight fails as his right wing breaks, sending him crashing into the Seine River. Later after the incident, Woody is asked by his friend, CIA file clerk Harry, to perform what appears to be a civilian paper swap in Istanbul. Upon arriving in Istanbul, he meets a beautiful Soviet named Natalia Rambova, who poses as the Soviet civilian with whom the exchange is supposed to take place, but it is later revealed that she is in fact a KGB spy. Woody does not tell Natalia his real name, and instead fabricates his identity to her as a top American agent code-named "Condorman". During the encounter, Woody fends off a group of would-be assassins and saves her life by sheer luck before accomplishing the paper trade. Impressed by Woody, and disgusted by how she was treated by her lover/boss Krokov when she returns to Moscow, Natalia decides to defect and asks the CIA to have "Condorman" be the agent that helps her.
Hangar 18 (1980)
, 1h37Directed by James L. Conway
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Darren McGavin, Robert Vaughn, Gary Collins, James Hampton, Pamela Bellwood, Philip Abbott
Roles Lew Price
Rating52%
Hangar 18 involves a U.F.O. cover-up following an incident aboard the space shuttle. The orbiter is launching a satellite, which collides with a nearby unidentified object. The collision kills an astronaut in the launch bay. The incident is witnessed by astronauts Price and Bancroff.
The China Syndrome (1979)
, 2h2Directed by James Bridges
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Films about writers, La fin du monde, Films about journalists, Films about television, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Richard Herd, Scott Brady, Wilford Brimley
Roles Bill Gibson
Rating73%
While visiting the (fictional) Ventana nuclear power plant outside Los Angeles, television news reporter Kimberly Wells (Fonda), her cameraman Richard Adams (Douglas) and their soundman Hector Salas witness the plant going through an emergency shutdown (SCRAM). Shift Supervisor Jack Godell (Lemmon) notices an unusual vibration while grabbing his cup of coffee which he had set down. He then finds that a gauge is misreading and that the coolant is dangerously low (he thought it was overflowing). The crew manages to bring the reactor under control and can be seen celebrating and expressing relief.
The Cat from Outer Space (1978)
, 1h44Directed by Norman Tokar, Arthur J. Vitarelli
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Comic science fiction
Themes Films about animals, Comedy science fiction films, Films about cats, Children's films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Ronnie Schell, Ken Berry, Sandy Duncan, Harry Morgan, Roddy McDowall, McLean Stevenson
Roles Capt. Anderson
Rating59%
An unidentified flying object makes an emergency landing on Earth and is taken into custody by the United States government. The occupant of the "flying saucer" turns out to be a strange cat-like alien named Zunar-J-5/9 Doric-4-7. Since the Mother Ship cannot send a rescue party before it leaves the solar system, the cat sets about investigating how to repair the ship himself. Using a special collar that amplifies telekinetic and telepathic abilities, he follows the military to the Energy Research Laboratory (or E.R.L.), where they hope to learn how the UFO's power source works. One of the lab's scientists, Dr. Frank Wilson, attracts the cat's attention when his theory on the power source, while ridiculed by the rest of the staff, is actually on the right track.
The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977)
, 3h35Directed by William A. Graham
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders, James Hampton, Lee Purcell, Sorrell Booke, Arthur Franz
Roles Wilbur Peterson
Rating65%
This film recounts the life and times of Howard Hughes, from his being a Hollywood producer and an aviator to a 1946 experimental plane crash that left him with a concussion that left him with