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James Hampton on F Troop He worked often with Burt Reynolds and directed him in episodes of the sitcom Evening Shade. James Hampton, who played the bumbling bugler Hannibal Dobbs on  F Troop, the prison inmate Caretaker in the original  The Longest Yard and Michael J. Foxs furry father in  Teen Wolf, has died. He was 84. Hampton died Wednesday at his home in Fort Worth, Texas, of complications from Parkinson’s disease, a family spokesperson said. Hampton was great pals with Burt Reynolds...

James Hampton, ‘F Troop,’ ‘Longest Yard’ and ‘Teen Wolf’ Actor, Dies at 84 Mike Barnes F Troop, the prison inmate Caretaker in the original  The Longest Yard and Michael J. Fox’s furry father in  Teen Wolf, has died. He was 84. Hampton died Wednesday at his home in Fort Worth, Texas, of complications from Parkinson’s disease, a family spokesperson said. Hampton was great pals with Burt Reynolds — the two first met on a 1963 episode of  Gunsmoke — and th...