After a few years selling advertising for two radio stations, Denton moved to Chicago to work in theater. Music is important to Denton but it is acting that has earned him the most attention. The musical skills for the Tennessee native were good enough that Denton’s musical background includes composing the music for and performing in the stage production “The Night Hank Williams Died” plus performing with The Band from TV that also featured Greg Grunberg, Hugh Laurie, Bonnie Somerville and Bob Guiney. I knew I could play it but I am not a great singer.” “I wanted the challenge of doing the music in the movie. I am just good enough to know I am not any good,” Denton says. “I’m a frustrated musician like most musicians. He admits that during the production that he was more of a father than fellow actor. Being able to spend five weeks in a hotel in Winnipeg and getting to go to work together was great.”ĭenton was confident that his son could handle the acting and musical demands of the film. “Working with my son, there’s nothing like it. “We did a movie together when he was 13 and it wasn’t as big a role and he didn’t play my son. “My son was certainly the keystone to the whole project,” Denton says. It is the second time that father and son have worked on a film together. That means the pair who have never gotten along must spend time together and discover that they may be more in tune than either of them would have imagined.Īll that is great but it is almost impossible to gauge the pleasure Denton is getting out of his latest project because he got to work with his son, Sheppard Denton, who plays his offspring in the film. They play the best friends of a couple who ask them to be best man and maid of honor at their wedding. 16 on the cable channel of Hallmark Movies & Mysteries.ĭenton plays Jack Chandeller, a musician who discovers love while rediscovering his passion for music with the help of co-star Sherri Saum. That joy is multiplied when he gets to work on family-friendly projects like “Perfect Harmony” that debuts at 9 p.m. The simple fact he gets to act makes James Denton happy.
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