Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia James Wade Hampton (July 9, 1936 – April 7, 2021) was an American actor, television director, and screenwriter. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Hampton (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Big Stone Gap
2014
as Reverend Manning
A story centered around a transitional point in the life of Ave Maria Mulligan, the heart of her community in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia.

The Last Ride
2012
as Judge Matheny
At the end of 1952, with the best years of his career behind him, country music legend Hank Williams hires a local kid to drive him through the Appala...

Fire from Below
2009
as Griffith
Digging at a nearby cave, a careless industrialist unearths a vein of pure base Lithium and inadvertently brings it to the surface, where the Lithium ...

Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel
2000
as Pediatrician
In 1970s Atlanta, a diminutive gay man tries to find succor from the small-town religion that filled him with self-loathing. He meets Miss Make-Do, wh...

Sling Blade
1996
as Jerry Woolridge
Karl Childers, a mentally disabled man, has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for killing his mother and her lover....

The Giant of Thunder Mountain
1990
as Jesse (Townsman)
A mountain man is falsely accused of the murder of his parents.

Pump Up the Volume
1990
as Arthur Watts
Mark Hunter, a lonely high school student, uses his shortwave radio to moonlight as the popular pirate DJ "Hard Harry." When his show gets blamed for ...

Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
1988
as Mayor of Miami
The Police Academy misfits travel to Miami Beach for Commandant Lassard to be honored with a prestigious lifetime award pending his retirement. Things...

Teen Wolf Too
1987
as Uncle Harold
Although awkward college student Todd Howard is particularly adept at science, he's paying for school with an athletic scholarship that he will lose s...

Teen Wolf
1985
as Harold Howard
When a shy teenager's new-found powers help him score at basketball - and with the popular girls - he has some pretty hairy decisions to make.

The Burning Bed
1984
as Police Witness
An abused battered wife has had enough of husband beating up on her. Everywhere she turns for help, there's not much anyone will do. After he rapes he...
Through the Magic Pyramid
1981
as Sam Tuttle
A lad finds himself magically sent back to ancient Egypt where he and the young King Tut team up to stop their evil and overly ambitious elders.

Condorman
1981
as Harry Oslo
Comic artist and writer Woody performs a simple courier operation for his friend Harry who works for the CIA. But when he successfully fends off hosti...

Stand by Your Man
1981
as Billy Sherrill
The rags-to-riches tale of country western queen, Tammy Wynette, from her impoverished childhood to country's First Lady and her two rocky marriages t...

Hangar 18
1980
as Lew Price
During a Space Shuttle mission a satellite rams a unidentified flying object. The UFO afterwards performs an emergency landing in the deserts of Arizo...

The China Syndrome
1979
as Bill Gibson
While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. W...

The Cat from Outer Space
1978
as Capt. Anderson
A UFO is stranded on earth and impounded by the US government. Its pilot, a cat with a collar that gives it special powers, including the ability to c...

Thaddeus Rose and Eddie
1978
as Alvin Karl
The adventures of two good old boys from Texas, no-account buddies who are finally forced to face reality for themselves and for their girlfriends.

Three on a Date
1978
as Ernest
The adventures and mishaps of four couples, winners on a TV game show, along with their young chaperone, on a Hawaiian holiday.

The Amazing Howard Hughes
1977
as Wilbur Peterson
The Amazing Howard Hughes is a 1977 television movie about American aviation pioneer and filmmaker Howard Hughes, based on the book by Hughes' busines...

Bunco
1977
Tom Selleck is a member of the "Bunco" squad the squad in charge of nabbing con men, cheats, and swindlers. Most of their time is spent dealing with p...

Hawmps!
1976
as Howard Clemmons
In old-west Texas, the cavalry's horses can't take the heat. So the military sends them camels instead, and assigns one man to convince the unit that ...

Hustle
1975
as Bus Driver
The body of teenager Gloria Hollinger is found dead on a Los Angeles beach, and Lt. Phil Gaines is in charge of the investigation. Gaines learns that ...

Mackintosh and T.J.
1975
as Cotton
Roy is a ranch hand and a drifter. He takes a young man into his care and helps him to grow up.

W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
1975
as Junior
W.W. Bright is a robber with a heart of gold who travels the South knocking off banks and gas stations owned by a corrupt businessman. When he hijacks...

Force Five
1975
as Lester White

Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
1975
as Harry Dudley
After three civil-rights workers are murdered in Mississippi in 1964, a team of FBI agents is sent there to find the killers.

The Longest Yard
1974
as Caretaker
A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards. His dilemma is that the warden asks him to throw...

Fade In
1973
as Bud
A sophisticated Hollywood film editor, on location for a film she is working on, falls for a local cowboy who is hired to work on the film.

The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
1973
as Jimmy (uncredited)
On the run from her violent husband, Catherine Crocker witnesses a train robbery and is taken prisoner by a frontier outlaw gang, led by a bandit who’...

Justin Morgan Had a Horse
1972
as Aaron
This is the story of the foundation sire of the Morgan Horse Breed.

Soldier Blue
1970
as Pvt. Menzies
After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman w...

The Cliff Dwellers
1962
as The Boy
The Cliff Dwellers is a 1962 English language short film directed by Hayward Anderson, starring James Hampton, Molly Scott and Betty Walker. The film ...