James Gammon

James Richard Gammon was an American actor, known for playing grizzled "good ol' boy" types in numerous films and television series. Gammon portrayed Lou Brown, the manager in the movies Major League and Major League II, fictionalized versions of the Cleveland Indians. He was also known for his role as the retired longshoreman Nick Bridges on the CBS television crime drama Nash Bridges.

20 April 1940

Born on the same birth day (20 April): Alexander Lebed • Carl Greenidge • Carmen Electra • David Brainerd • Debbie Flintoff-King • Jiří Dienstbier • Joan Miró • Julie Powell • Kai Siegbahn • Lionel Hampton • Michael Allenby, 3rd Viscount Allenby • Mimis Fotopoulos • N. Chandrababu Naidu • Pat Roberts • Phil Hill • Philippe Pinel • Robert Byrne (chess player) • Sebastian Faulks • Tonny Kessler

Born in the same month (April 1940): Billy Fury • Dale Houston • David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes • Eric Dancer • George Adams (musician) • Gloria Hunniford • Homero Aridjis • Joan Snyder • Joseph L. Goldstein • Lester Chambers • Marju Lauristin • Max Mosley • Michael Copps • Pedro Armendáriz Jr. • Penelope Coelen • Penelope Keith • Peter Diamond • Robert Lacroix • Robert Walker (actor, born 1940) • Sharon Sheeley • Souleymane Cissé (film director) • Woodie Fryman • Ülo Õun