JAMES GAMMON BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
James Gammon was born on April 20th, 1940 in Newman, Illinois with the birth name James Richard Gammon, born to Doris Latimer and Donald Gammon. His parents divorced at an early age and he lived in Orlando, Florida for a while working at a local television station.
He then relocated to Los Angeles, California searching for better work. His career in the entertainment industry first began working on the other side as a cameraman and it was his appearance that attracted directors to convince him he belonged in front of the camera.
He soon began appearing in the mid 1960's on a number of western television shows such as, "The Wild Wild west", "The Monroes", "Captain Nice" and Bonanza". Soon more television series credits followed such as, "The Road West", "The Invaders", "Batman" and "The Virginian".
In 1967 he broke into the film industry making his debut on, "Cool Hand Luke" starring Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin, Jo Van Fleet, Dennis Hopper, J.D. Cannon, Ralph Waite, Wayne Rogers, Morgan Woodward, Luke Askew, Joe Don Baker, Anthony Zerbe and Harry Dean Stanton, although it was an un-credited role. Over the course of his career he began to make more of a name for himself and soon was adding a number of successful film roles such as, "The Thousand Plane Raid" (1969), "A Man Called Horse" (1970) starring Richard Harris, Judith Anderson, Dub Taylor, Eddie Little Sky, Iron Eyes Cody, Lina Martin and William Jordan, "Macon County Line" (1974), "The Pom Pom Girls" (1976), "Vision Quest" (1985), "Major League" (1989), "I Love You to Death" (1990), "CrissCross" (1992), "Cabin Boy" (1994), "Wild Bill" (1995), "The Apostle" (1997), "One Man's Hero" (1999), "Don't Come Knocking" (2005), and "The Final Season" (2007).
In addition to his many film roles he also remained working as a television actor the whole duration of his career appearing on a variety of series such as, "Felony Squad", "Death Valley Days", "The Intruders", "Kung Fu", "Lou Grant", "Murder, She Wrote", "Crime Story", "American Playhouse", "Midnight Caller", "Bagdad Café", "The Young Riders", "Homefront", "L.A. Law" and "Nash Bridges".
James Gammon married twice throughout his lifetime, first to Barbara Giacchero in 1967 however, by 1970 this marriage came to an end. He then wed Nancy Jane Kapusta in 1972 and they had two children and remained married until he passed away on July 16th, 2910 in Costa Mesa, California at the age of seventy after suffering from adrenal gland and liver cancer.
Filmography
2009 The New Daughter
2009 Otis E.
2009 In the Electric Mist
2008 Appaloosa
2007 The Final Season
2007 Jesse Stone: Sea Change
2007 Grey's Anatomy
2007 Monk
2006 Altered
2006 The Far Side of Jericho
2006 Outlaw Trail: The Treasure of Butch Cassidy
2006 What I Did for Love
2005 Don't Come Knocking
2004 Crossing Jordan
2004 LAX
2004 Silver City
2004 Paradise
2003 Cold Mountain
2003 Fillmore!
2003 Monte Walsh
2002 The Country Bears
2002 Life or Something Like It
1996-2001 Nash Bridges
2000 The Cell
1999 One Man's Hero
1999 The Iron Giant
1999 Tracey Takes On...
1999 You Know My Name
1998 The Hi-Lo Country
1998 Logan's War: Bound by Honor
1998 Love from Ground Zero
1998 Point Blank
1998 The Man in the Iron Mask
1997 The Apostle
1997 Traveller
1996 Two Mothers for Zachary
1995 Wild Bill
1995 Streets of Laredo
1995 Truman
1994 Natural Born Killers
1994 Wyatt Earp
1994 Hard Vice
1994 Major League II
1993-1994 L.A. Law
1994 Cabin Boy
1993 Running Cool
1992-1993 Homefront
1993 The Adventures of Huck Finn
1993 Men Don't Tell
1993 Painted Desert
1992 Middle Ages
1992 Criminal Behavior
1992 CrissCross
1992 Leaving Normal
1992 The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1991 The Young Riders
1991 Stranger at My Door
1990-1991 Bagdad Cafe
1991 Conagher
1990 I Love You to Death
1990 Coupe de Ville
1990 Revenge
1989 Midnight Caller
1989 Roe vs. Wade
1989 Major League
1989 In the Heat of the Night
1988 Lincoln
1988 The Milagro Beanfield War
1987 Ironweed
1987 Laguna Heat
1987 Made in Heaven
1987 Crime Story
1982-1987 American Playhouse
1986 Hard Traveling
1986 The Equalizer
1985 Silver Bullet
1985 The Long Hot Summer
1985 Silverado
1985 Murder, She Wrote
1985 Sylvester
1985 Hell Town
1985 Vision Quest
1984 Cagney & Lacey
1984 The Master
1983 Women of San Quentin
1983 M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Drivers
1982 Deadly Encounter
1981 The Big Black Pill
1980 Below the Belt
1980 Any Which Way You Can
1980 It's My Turn
1980 Rage!
1980 Urban Cowboy
1980 On the Nickel
1979 The Sacketts
1979 Lou Grant
1977-1978 Charlie's Angels
1977 The Greatest
1977 Black Oak Conspiracy
1977 Code R
1976 Most Wanted
1976 Monster Squad
1976 The Pom Pom Girls
1976 Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw
1976 Petrocelli
1971-1976 Cannon
1975 Barnaby Jones
1973-1975 The Waltons
1975 The Kansas City Massacre
1975 The Wild McCullochs
1975 The Streets of San Francisco
1974 The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
1974 Macon County Line
1974 Zandy's Bride
1974 Kung Fu
1971-1974 The F.B.I.
1966-1973 Gunsmoke
1973 Dusty's Trail
1972 Cry for Me, Billy
1970 The Intruders
1970 The High Chaparral
1970 Macho Callahan
1970 A Man Called Horse
1968-1969 Lancer
1969 The Thousand Plane Raid
1968 Death Valley Days
1968 Journey to Shiloh
1967 The Virginian
1967 Felony Squad
1967 Cool Hand Luke
1967 Batman
1967 The Invaders
1966-1967 The Road West
1967 Bonanza
1967 Captain Nice
1966 The Monroes
1966 The Wild Wild West
