- Born
- Birth nameJames Clifford Lampley
- Height5′ 9½″ (1.77 m)
- Jim Lampley is an American sportscaster, news anchor, film producer, and restaurant owner.
He was best known as a blow-by-blow announcer on HBO World Championship Boxing for 30 years. He had covered a record 14 Olympic Games on U.S. television, most recently the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. The 2010 Winter Olympics was the first time since the 1980 Summer Olympics that he didn't cover. Lampley writes hosts and executive produces his own studio boxing news show, The Fight Game with Jim Lampley on HBO.
For his participation in the Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel HBO series, Lampley earned three Emmy awards.
- IMDb mini biography by: Bazza the Beast
- SpousesBree Walker(1990 - 1999) (divorced, 2 children)Joanne Faith Mallis(April 8, 1979 - January 2, 1990) (divorced, 2 children)Linda Sharon Lee(August 29, 1970 - 1977) (divorced)
- He has two children with former TV anchor Bree Walker - a son, Aaron, and a daughter, Andrea.
- He and ex-wife, Bree Walker, are partners in Crystal Springs Productions. As of June 3, 2004, they revealed on Larry King Live (1985) that they had plans to remarry. However, they remain divorced as of the spring of 2007.
- Del Mar, California
- He is a longtime boxing commentator and works for HBO Sports.
- Father of Brooke Mallis Lampley (born in 1980) and father-in-law of Christopher Papagianis (born in 1980).
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