Performance
Clifton James
Clifton James is credited on 335 releases across 104 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1963–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
335
Pressings credited
104
Albums
7
Decades active
109
In collections
Biography
George Clifton James (May 29, 1920 – April 15, 2017) was an American actor of film, theatre, and television. He was best known to screen audiences for his various character roles, including prison floorwalker Carr in Cool Hand Luke (1967), Sheriff J.W. Pepper alongside Roger Moore in the James Bond films Live and Let Die (1973) and The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), the sheriff in Silver Streak (1976), a Texas tycoon in The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977), and Charles Comiskey in Eight Men Out (1988).
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Credited work
335 releases · 104 albums · active 1963–2025
- Performance · 582
Studios: Ter Mar Studios · American Folk Blues Festival · Musikhalle, Hamburg · Sound Studios, Chicago
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Folk Singer
1964
I Am The Blues
1970
The Super Super Blues Band
1967
Go Bo Diddley
1959
The Chess Box
1989
The Best Of Chess Blues
1987
What Happened To My Blues
1976
Have Guitar, Will Travel
1960
Bo Diddley Is A Gunslinger
1960
His Best
1997
The Story Of The Blues
1969
The Chess Box
1988
His Greatest Sides, Volume One
1983
Bo Diddley Is A... Lover
1961
The Chess Blues-Rock Songbook: The Classic Originals
1997
Chess Blues
1992
King Of The Jungle
1977
Basic Soul
1972
Midnight Jump
1969
Koko Taylor
1969
Blues On The South Side
1965
Might Is Right/Soul Wrinkles
Frequent collaborators
- Bo Diddley
- Various
- Willie Dixon
- Koko Taylor
- Howlin' Wolf
- Muddy Waters
- Sonny Boy Williamson (2)
- Robert Nighthawk
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