1. Clifton James was born in Spokane, Washington, the son of Grace, a teacher, and Harry Clifton James, a journalist.
15 Facts About Clifton James
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Clifton James grew up in Oregon in the Gladstone area of Clackamas County.
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Clifton James was a decorated World War II United States Army veteran.
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Clifton James served as an infantry platoon sergeant with Co.
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Clifton James served forty-two months in the South Pacific from January 1942 until August 1945.
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Clifton James's decorations include the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and two Purple Hearts.
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Clifton James played very similar characters in both Silver Streak and Superman II.
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Clifton James appeared in the uncredited role of the district attorney who prosecuted Al Capone in the film The Untouchables.
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Clifton James played a Navy master-at-arms in The Last Detail, starring Jack Nicholson, and Chicago White Sox baseball team owner Charles Comiskey in Eight Men Out, a drama about the corrupt 1919 Chicago White Sox.
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Clifton James appeared in two episodes of The A-Team: as murderous prison warden Beale in the first-season episode "Pros and Cons" and as corrupt Sheriff Jake Dawson in the second season's "The White Ballot".
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Clifton James appeared in the 1979 pilot episode of Hart to Hart playing the part of a highway cop.
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Clifton James was featured a number of times by writer-director John Sayles, including Eight Men Out, Lone Star and Sunshine State.
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Clifton James' last known film appearance was in Raising Flagg, although he had been cast in a starring role to appear in the feature film Old Soldiers, playing a true-to-life elderly veteran of World War II.
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Clifton James married twice: to Donna Lea Beach from 1948 to 1950, with whom he had one child, and to Laurie Harper, from 1951 until her death in 2015, with whom he had five children.
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Clifton James resided in Gladstone, Oregon, and died from complications of diabetes on April 15,2017, aged 96.