James Gammon who played the role of the Cleveland Indians manager Lou Brown in the 1989 classic baseball film Major League died Friday in Costa Mesa, California after a long battle with cancer. He was one of the many personalities that helped elevate Major League to its current status as one of the best baseball movies ever.
James Gammon died of adrenal gland and liver cancer in Costa Mesa, California. Who is James Gammon? Married to Nancy Jane Kapusta until his death, J. Gammon was an American actor, and best remembered as “Lou Brown”, the animated Cleveland Indians manager in the 1989 classic baseball film Major League. James Gammon was considered to be one of the few personalities that helped elevate Major League to its current status as one of the baseball movies ever.
James Gammon was born on April 20, 1940 in Newman, Illinois, the son of Doris Latimer and Donald Gammon, a low profile musician in America. James Gammon also appeared twice as Deputy Virgil Bramley in the NBC western series The Road West in the 1966–1967 season, which co-starred Barry Sullivan, Andrew Prine, and Glenn Corbett.
James played the role of Ben Hebert in the Electric Mist movie, his last recorded movie shown in 2009. Gammon started his career in 1966 playing an episode character of the popular movie “Wild, wild West”.
Of all the movies he had in his lifetime playing different roles – from supporting to episodic to voice only – it was in the movie Major League where James Gammon started gaining a name in movie industry. James Gammon, playing the gravely voiced manager delivered one of the more classic lines after watching Wesley Snipes’ character “Willie Mays Hayes” pepper the batting cage with pop-ups, remarking, “You may run like Mays, but you hit like s–t.”
