James Gammon

James Gammon

Birthday: 1940-04-20

Place of Birth: Newman, Illinois, USA

Biography: James Richard Gammon (April 20, 1940 – July 16, 2010) was an American actor, known for his roles as team manager Lou Brown in the films Major League and Major League II (fictionalized version of the Cleveland Indians), and retired longshoreman Nick Bridges, Nash's father, on the CBS crime drama Nash Bridges.

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Cool Hand Luke
Cool Hand Luke

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play...

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The Hi-Lo Country
The Hi-Lo Country

An intimate story of the enduring bond of friendship between two hard-living men, set against a swee...

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I Love You to Death
I Love You to Death

Joey Boca is the owner of a pizza parlour, and has been married to Rosalie for years. When Rosalie d...

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The Iron Giant
The Iron Giant

In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-ol...

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Major League II
Major League II

After losing in the ALCS the year before, the Cleveland Indians are determined to make it into the W...

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Traveller
Traveller

A young man, Pat, visits the clan of gypsy-like grifters (Irish Travellers) in rural North Carolina ...

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Silverado
Silverado

Four unwitting heroes cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. Little do they k...

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The Cell
The Cell

A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim....

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Cabin Boy
Cabin Boy

A foul-mouthed finishing school graduate mistakenly winds up on an ill-fated fishing boat, and faces...

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Major League
Major League

When Rachel Phelps inherits the Cleveland Indians from her deceased husband, she's determined to mov...

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Appaloosa
Appaloosa

Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their jo...

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The Milagro Beanfield War
The Milagro Beanfield War

The accidental breakdown of an irrigation valve launches a hot confrontation between the mainly Lati...

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Don't Come Knocking
Don't Come Knocking

Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his...

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Deadly Encounter
Deadly Encounter

A veteran pilot finds himself knee-deep in trouble when his ex-girlfriend shows up at his doorstep i...

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In the Electric Mist
In the Electric Mist

Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local h...

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Altered
Altered

Fifteen years ago, five men were abducted by aliens. Only four returned. Now, these same four men ha...

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Revenge
Revenge

Michael ‘Jay’ Cochran has just left the Navy after 12 years and he's not quite sure what he's going ...

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Made in Heaven
Made in Heaven

Deceased drifter Mike arrives in Heaven and quickly falls for newborn soul Annie, soon to start her ...

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A Man Called Horse
A Man Called Horse

In 1825, English peer Lord John Morgan is cast adrift in the American West. Captured by Sioux Indian...

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Monte Walsh
Monte Walsh

Monte Walsh and Chet Rollins are long-time cowhands, working whatever ranch work comes their way, bu...

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The New Daughter
The New Daughter

John James is a writer; his wife has left him. He moves with his two middle-school children to an is...

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Otis E.
Otis E.

After spending nearly 15 years in solitary confinement, Otis is released back into society. Under th...

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Truman
Truman

Biographical account of America's President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman's rise from sm...

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Coupe de Ville
Coupe de Ville

Meet the Libner brothers: Marvin, the oldest, is a sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. Buddy, the middle...

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Urban Cowboy
Urban Cowboy

After moving to Pasadena, Texas, country boy Bud Davis starts hanging around a bar called Gilley's, ...

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Wild Bill
Wild Bill

Biopic about famous gunslinger Wild Bill Hickock. The early career of legendary lawman is telescoped...

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The Country Bears
The Country Bears

For Beary Barrington, The Country Bears' young #1 fan, fitting in with his all-too-human family is p...

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CrissCross
CrissCross

A 12-year-old boy comes of age in 1969 Key West against the backdrop of the Apollo moon landing, whe...

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Paradise
Paradise

Televangelist Bobby Paradise "saw God" in some space debris when he was returning to Earth as an ast...

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Logan's War: Bound by Honor
Logan's War: Bound by Honor

Chuck Norris stars as martial arts extraordinaire Jake Fallon, who, after the death of his brother a...

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Running Cool
Running Cool

Bone and Bear, two rough and tough bikers ride out from Sturgis, SD. to the marshes of South Carolin...

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What I Did for Love
What I Did for Love

Call him a city slicker. Call him a tenderfoot. But don't call him a member of the family--yet. Risi...

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Point Blank
Point Blank

Convicted corporate criminal Howard engineers a prison break as he and a number of fellow inmates ar...

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Below the Belt
Below the Belt

A close-up look at the turbulent world of women's professional wrestling as a New York City waitress...

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The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West
The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West

This comical western chronicles the silly adventures of a bumbling wagonmaster and his clutzy assist...

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The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez

Forced to run from Texas Rangers after a heated misunderstanding leads to the death of a lawman, Mex...

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Painted Desert - TUFF Theatrical Edition
Painted Desert - TUFF Theatrical Edition

In the middle of the desert, a solipsistic Japanese-American woman, along with her elderly and paral...

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Men Don't Tell
Men Don't Tell

This movie shows another side to spousal abuse that not too many people thought is possible--the hus...

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Love from Ground Zero
Love from Ground Zero

Love From Ground Zero follows three strangers across the back roads of America with the ashes of a m...

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Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Earp

From Wichita to Dodge City, to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Wyatt Earp is taught that nothing matte...

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Two Mothers for Zachary
Two Mothers for Zachary

A grandmother sues her daughter for custody of her grandson, because she believes that her daughter'...

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Journey to Shiloh
Journey to Shiloh

At the beginning of the Civil War, seven friends embark on a cross-country journey in order to join ...

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The Pom Pom Girls
The Pom Pom Girls

A football player at Rosedale High School is amorous of one of the cheerleaders, who is going with a...

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Hard Day at Blue Nose
Hard Day at Blue Nose

Backwoods officers try to uncover clues about the mysterious death of a young woman at a dude ranch....

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The Wild McCullochs
The Wild McCullochs

A story about the rich McCulloch Family, their overbearing father and the children's misguided blami...

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Father of Hell Town
Father of Hell Town

In this pilot to the short-lived "Hell Town," Robert Blake plays a scrappy, ex-convict-turned-ghetto...

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Leaving Normal
Leaving Normal

Darly, a waitress with a past that's weighing her down, decides to drive to Alaska to try and come t...

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Hard Vice
Hard Vice

A vice cop and her partner investigate a string of murders apparently tied to high-priced Las Vegas ...

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The Greatest
The Greatest

Muhammad Ali's life story up to the late 1970s, which includes his Olympic boxing triumphs as Cassiu...

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You Know My Name
You Know My Name

In six months, the population of Cromwell, Oklahoma, has climbed from 500 to 10,000. Boom times have...

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The Final Season
The Final Season

True story of Kent Stock, who in the early '90s gives up a job and ditches his wedding plans to take...

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One Man's Hero
One Man's Hero

One Man's Hero tells the little-known story of the "St. Patrick's Battalion" or "San Patricios," a g...

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Roe vs. Wade
Roe vs. Wade

Holly Hunter plays a lonely, single, poorly educated Texan who finds herself pregnant with no means ...

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Joe Dancer: The Big Black Pill
Joe Dancer: The Big Black Pill

The first of three private-eye movies created by Robert Blake about rugged Joe Dancer as the forerun...

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Any Which Way You Can
Any Which Way You Can

Philo takes part in a bare knuckle fight – as he does – to make more money than he can earn from his...

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Life or Something Like It
Life or Something Like It

A reporter Lanie Kerrigan interviews a psychic homeless man for a fluff piece about a football game'...

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Stranger at My Door
Stranger at My Door

A cop on the run from his mob boss "in-laws" tries to start a new life on a deserted farm with his t...

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Jesse Stone: Sea Change
Jesse Stone: Sea Change

Police Chief Jesse Stone's relationship with his ex-wife worsens, and he fears he's relapsing into a...

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Conagher
Conagher

Mrs. Evie Teale is struggling to stay alive while raising her two children alone on a remote homeste...

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The Man in the Iron Mask
The Man in the Iron Mask

Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with t...

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The Wild Bunch: The True Tale of Butch and Sundance
The Wild Bunch: The True Tale of Butch and Sundance

Comparisons between what is known from the real lives of Robert Leroy 'Butch Cassidy' Parker and Har...

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The Kansas City Massacre
The Kansas City Massacre

Gangsters free one of their colleagues being escorted to prison and kill several FBI agents and loca...

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The Far Side of Jericho
The Far Side of Jericho

Jericho. In the 1880's. Three women of the wild West, widows of an outlawed gang of brothers recentl...

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Sylvester
Sylvester

Charlie is a 16-year-old orphan struggling to raise her two younger brothers when she endeavors to t...

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Ironweed
Ironweed

An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for ...

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Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw
Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw

A young country-star wannabe takes off from her carhop career to join with a young, modern Billy the...

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Natural Born Killers
Natural Born Killers

Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by ...

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Stacking
Stacking

After her father is injured, a teenager and an alcoholic employee struggle to save their financially...

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Hard Traveling
Hard Traveling

Set during the Depression, Dan Bessie's film (based on a novel by his father Alvah) stars Ellen Geer...

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Macon County Line
Macon County Line

A vengeful Southern sheriff is out for blood after his wife is brutally killed by a pair of drifters...

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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Passion for Life
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Passion for Life

On safari at the Masai Mara game preserve in Kenya with Teddy Roosevelt, Indy becomes lost in the va...

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Laguna Heat
Laguna Heat

Tom Shepard returns to his home town of Laguna Beach to escape his turbulent past. But the tranquili...

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Silver City
Silver City

The discovery of a corpse and the ensuing probe by an idealistic journalist threatens to unravel a b...

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On the Nickel
On the Nickel

Sam, a recovering alcoholic, feels dissatisfied with his life of sobriety and goes back in search of...

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Vision Quest
Vision Quest

After deciding he needs to do something meaningful with his life, high school wrestler Louden Swain ...

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Rage!
Rage!

In an attempt to be rehabilitated, a rapist goes to therapy while in prison....

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M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Drivers
M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Drivers

A mother relentlessly tries to spearhead a movement for national anti-drunk driver legislation after...

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Black Oak Conspiracy
Black Oak Conspiracy

An average Joe is pitted against a crooked sheriff and unscrupulous land grabbers in this tale of sm...

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Silver Bullet
Silver Bullet

The small city of Tarker's Mills is startled by a series of sadistic murders. The population fears t...

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Macho Callahan
Macho Callahan

A man tricked into enlisting in the Confederate army is later thrown into a hellish stockade on dese...

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The Adventures of Huck Finn
The Adventures of Huck Finn

Mischievous Huck Finn is unnerved when his father, reemerging after years away, kidnaps him in an at...

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Cry for Me, Billy
Cry for Me, Billy

Drifter falls in love with Native American girl, with tragic results....

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Women of San Quentin
Women of San Quentin

A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughe...

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Cold Mountain
Cold Mountain

In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wou...

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This So-Called Disaster
This So-Called Disaster

Director Michael Almereyda's documentary on the weeks just prior to Sam Shepard's stage production o...

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It's My Turn
It's My Turn

A successful but stressed mathematics professor goes to her father's wedding and falls in love with ...

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The Apostle
The Apostle

After his happy life spins out of control, a preacher from Texas changes his name, goes to Louisiana...

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The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One
The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One

J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI go after notorious bank robber and kidnapper Alvin Karpis and his gang....

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Noon Wine
Noon Wine

The drama, adapted from a story by Katherine Anne Porter, tells of a Swedish immigrant who arrives o...

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Zandy's Bride
Zandy's Bride

Zandy Allan purchases a mail-order bride, Hannah Lund. He treats her as a possession, without respec...

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