James Wolford Hardin

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Born September 20, 1938, Denver, Colorado. Attended high school in Fern Creek, Kentucky, high school acquaintance of Ned Beatty, and Hunter Thompson. Attended Indiana University, first Operations Manager in the Pillsbury Company at age of 25. Owned and operated 6 record stores in the 1960's and 70's. Owned Rock Music clubs in Louisville in the 1970's, where he met Colonel Bruce Hampton, musical icon. Bruce is Morris in Sling Blade, Billy Bob Thornton used to play drums in Bruces band. Ate lunch with Duane Allman two mnths before his death. Almost died in Canada in February 1972, in a marooned car with Mike Green, the former president of The Academy of Recording Arts, who handed out the Grammys every year.

Family: Father was WW One soldier-gassed in France, given six months to live in 1918, lived to 1960. Mother never attended high school, taught 49 years, obtained college degrees including Masters, and received high school diploma at age 102, dying the next year. Married to Carol Miles for 26 years, divorced since 1994. Married to Jacque Hill for 4 years, divorced in 1964.

Four children, 5 grandchildren-oldest grandson just graduated Medical School at Indiana University as President of his class.

Serious as an actor as a teenager, but he and Ned Beatty both felt they were too ugly to be successful. Resumed serious acting in 2001. Signature role is bum, homeless person, or drunk. Never been drunk, or ever smoked a cigarette, although spent childhood years working in Kentucky tobacco fields.

Has produced two full length movies, Finale, and Finale 2, comedies about two down on their luck detectives. Produced one award winning short, Fangs For The Memories, about the detectives, and their encounter with a vampire.

Spends days at Indiana Core warehouse, his business which supplies engines and transmissions to rebuilders, and provides a great storage spot for props, and movie paraphernalia.

James Wolford Hardin