James Hampton
Also Known As: James Wade Hampton
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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Adult: No
Birthday: July 09, 1936
Age: 88 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 07, 2021
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The China Syndrome
Overview: While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicize the incident, but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the incident a secret.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-16
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The Cliff Dwellers
Overview: The Cliff Dwellers is a 1962 English language short film directed by Hayward Anderson, starring James Hampton, Molly Scott and Betty Walker. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Three on a Date
Overview: The adventures and mishaps of four couples, winners on a TV game show, along with their young chaperone, on a Hawaiian holiday.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-17
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Hawmps!
Overview: 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 the camels are a good idea.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-20
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Teen Wolf
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-23
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Soldier Blue
Overview: 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 who had lived with the Cheyenne two years and whose sympathies lie more with them than with the US government. Together, they must try to reach the cavalry's main base camp. As they travel onward, Honus is torn between his growing affection for Cresta.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-12
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Teen Wolf Too
Overview: Although awkward college student Todd Howard is particularly adept at science, he's paying for school with an athletic scholarship that he will lose should he not fare well in an upcoming boxing tournament. Luckily for Todd, he has inherited the same family curse that once turned his cousin into a werewolf. As he transforms into the hairy, fanged, howling monster, he finds both his physical agility and his popularity skyrocketing -- but at what cost?
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-20
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Condorman
Overview: 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 hostile agents, he earns the respect of the beautiful Natalia, who requests his assistance for her defection. Woody uses this request as leverage to use the CIA's resources to bring his comic book creation, Condorman, to life to battle the evil Krokov.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-02
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The Amazing Howard Hughes
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-13
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Hangar 18
Overview: During a Space Shuttle mission a satellite rams a unidentified flying object. The UFO afterwards performs an emergency landing in the deserts of Arizona. However the White House denies its existence because of the near presidential elections. The UFO is brought to the secret Hangar 18 and the accident is blamed on the incompetence of the astronauts Bancroff and Price. But the two fight against this and try to hunt down the UFO.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-01
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The Last Ride
Overview: 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 Appalachian countryside for a pair of New Years shows in West Virginia and Ohio.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-22
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Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
Overview: The Police Academy misfits travel to Miami Beach for Commandant Lassard to be honored with a prestigious lifetime award pending his retirement. Things take a turn when Lassard unknowingly ends up in possession of stolen diamonds from a jewel heist.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-17
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Hustle
Overview: 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 the girl, a stripper and prostitute, committed suicide, but he ignores the connection between her and a powerful mob lawyer, Leo Sellers. Hollinger's father, however, is not satisfied with Gaines's results, and attempts to investigate the case on his own.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-25
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Big Stone Gap
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-09
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Through the Magic Pyramid
Overview: 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.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-06
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Stand by Your Man
Overview: 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 to fellow superstar George Jones, who had been her childhood idol.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-13
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Force Five
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Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-28
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Pump Up the Volume
Overview: 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 a teen committing suicide, the students clash with high school faculty and the authorities.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-22
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Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan
Overview: After three civil-rights workers are murdered in Mississippi in 1964, a team of FBI agents is sent there to find the killers.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-20
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Sling Blade
Overview: 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. Although thoroughly institutionalized, he is deemed fit to be released into the outside world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-30
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Thaddeus Rose and Eddie
Overview: 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.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-24
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Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel
Overview: 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, who teaches him the fun of reckless behavior and emotional management via getting higher than a kite. The film features a host of cameos from John Ritter, Marilu Henner, Kathy Kinney and others.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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The Longest Yard
Overview: 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 the game in return for an early release, but he is also concerned about the inmates' lack of self-esteem.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-21
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Bunco
Overview: 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 penny-ante street-corner crooks. But their investigations start to reveal a larger con game in progress.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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The Cat from Outer Space
Overview: 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 communicate with humans, has eluded the authorities and seeks the help of a scientist in order to reclaim and repair his ship and get back home.
Genres: Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-09
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The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
Overview: 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’s hiding a secret of his own.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-28
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Fade In
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Western Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-08
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W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
Overview: 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 a car, he meets an aspiring country band, the Dixie Dancekings, led by Dixie. The two sides eventually take a liking to one another, especially after the Dancekings realize the size of Bright's thefts. Trailed by religious zealot cop Deacon Gore, Bright helps the band make it big while on the run.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-21
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Mackintosh and T.J.
Overview: Roy is a ranch hand and a drifter. He takes a young man into his care and helps him to grow up.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-21
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Justin Morgan Had a Horse
Overview: This is the story of the foundation sire of the Morgan Horse Breed.
Genres: Drama Family Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-06
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The Burning Bed
Overview: 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 her one night, she sets the bed on fire with him in it asleep.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-08
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The Giant of Thunder Mountain
Overview: A mountain man is falsely accused of the murder of his parents.
Genres: Western Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-25
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Fire from Below
Overview: 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 combusts when coming into contact with water and begins to wreak havoc on the country side.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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