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James Hampton in Teen Wolf (1985)

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James Hampton

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  • Born
    July 9, 1936 · Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
  • Died
    April 7, 2021 · Fort Worth, Texas, USA (Parkinson's disease)
  • Birth name
    James Wade Hampton
  • Nicknames
    • Jim
    • Jimmy

Biography

    • Raised in Dallas, Texas, James Hampton attended John H. Reagan Elementary, N.R. Crozier Technical High School and the University of North Texas (Theatre Arts Major). He studied acting with Michael Howard in New York and Leonard Nimoy in Los Angeles. He worked with Baruch Lumet at Knox Street Theatre in Dallas and did summer stock at Casa Manana in Fort Worth (1961). He performed off-Broadway in "Easy Does It" with Tom Poston and Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum, and toured with Burt Reynolds in "Rainmaker". He starred in "Tender Trap" with Reynolds at Arlington Park Theatre in Chicago and played the title role in "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter" at the same theatre with Mamie Van Doren and Rick Jason. Onscreen, he has played in films as diverse as Plein la gueule (1974) and Teen Wolf (1985), and is probably best remembered as the eager but inept bugler Private Hannibal Dobbs in the classic sitcom F Troop (1965). James Hampton died at age 84 of Parkinson's disease at his home in Fort Worth, Texas.
      - IMDb mini biography by: James Hampton

Family

  • Spouses
      Mari Deese(June 30, 2002 - April 7, 2021) (his death)
      Carole Simpson(June 28, 1964 - January 13, 1994) (divorced, 3 children)
  • Parents
      Ivan Hershel Hampton
      Dorothy Edna Gateley
  • Relatives
      Blake Lee Hampton(Sibling)
      Ivan Daniel Hampton(Sibling)

Trivia

  • His unit in F Troop (1965) was F Troop, 6th Cavalry. Before appearing on "F Troop", Hampton had been in the army, stationed in Fort Knox, Kentucky. His unit was F Troop, 6th Armored Cavalry.
  • His brother Daniel Hampton was a rodeo clown.
  • His parents were Ivan and Edna Hampton, owners of a Dallas, Texas, dry cleaning store.
  • Some have claimed that his character in F Troop (1965) Bugler Hannibal Dobbs, should not have been a part of the unit, since after the war ended, most Southern white males were ineligible for service in the United States Army. However, Dobbs could have been one of the Southerners who remained loyal to the United States and joined the Union Army--Texas had a rather large contingent of them, one of them being cavalry General John Buford, who helped win the battle of Gettysburg. Also, since the South was pretty much devastated after the war, many ex-rebels returned home to find no jobs available, so they traveled west and enlisted in the army under a fake name. This often resulted in the somewhat odd situation of men who had been majors, lieutenant colonels and full colonels in the Confederate Army serving as privates, corporals and sergeants in the United States Army.
  • In the mid-1980s, an urban legend began in the central Eastern area suggesting that Hampton was the actor who replaced Willard Scott as the McDonald's mascot, Ronald McDonald. Hampton himself has stated that it is untrue.

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