1996Winner
Best Performance
Sling Blade
Bruce Hampton
Actor
Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
April 30, 1947
Biography
Musician, Vocalist, Composer, Actor. He was known for his energetic, eccentric style and often regarded as the granddaddy of the jam band scene. He was born in Tennessee and grew up in Atlanta. He first gained attention in the late 1960's and early 1970's and he was a founding member of the Hampton Grease Band. The band broke up in 1973. In the next five decades that followed he formed or was a part of a number of other acts. In 1993, he started acting in film and television with such credits as Sling Blade (1996), Space Ghost Coast to Coast (1998), Jimi Hendrix Electric Church (2015), Tombstone (1993), Duckworth, (2011), Gilda Sue Rosenstern: The Motion Picture! (2016), Here Comes Rusty (2016). In 2012, the Governor of Georgia presented him with the Governor's Award In "The Arts and Humanities".
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2000Winner
Best Performance
Outside Out
1993Nominee
Best Performance
The Pasaquoyan
Career Highlights
2002Highlight
Best Performance
Widespread Panic: The Earth Will Swallow You
2016Highlight
Best Performance
Here Comes Rusty
Video
Sling Blade
Here Comes Rusty
Basically Frightened: The Musical Madness of Colonel Bruce Hampton