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James Hampton
9 July 1936
James Hampton played in 11 movies in the Drama, Romance, Thriller, Western, Comedy, Crime, Sport, Mystery, Music, Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Horror genres.
James Hampton got succeed with average imdb rating 5.2.
A co-star in the sitcom "F-Troop" in the 60s, he was in a real life F-Troop of the 6th Armored Cavalry at Fort Knox in the late '50s.
Married to actress Mary Deese, James has two grown-up children and two grandchildren.
In reality, Hampton's character, Bugler Hanibal Dobbs should not have been a part of F -Troop. Immediately following the Civil War, Dobbs, being a Southerner, would have been ineligible for service in the United States Army.
His parents were Ivan and Edna Hampton, owners of a Dallas, Texas, dry cleaning store.
... His brother Dan was a rodeo clown.
In the mid Eighties 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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