James Ware Bradbury (June 10, 1802 – January 6, 1901) was a United States Senator from Maine.
Born in Parsonsfield, Maine, he attended the common schools and Gorham Academy. After graduating from Bowdoin College in 1825, he became principal of Hallowell Academy and founder of the first normal school in New England, at Effingham, New Hampshire, in 1829.
He then studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Augusta, Maine, in 1830. There he was for a time editor of the Maine Patriot, and was prosecuting attorney for the county from 1834 until 1838. He was a member of the Baltimore convention of 1844, which nominated James K. Polk for the presidency.
He was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1847, until March 3, 1853, when he declined to be a candidate for reelection (returning, at the close of his term, to the practice of his profession). While in the Senate he chaired the U.S. Senate Committee on Printing and the U.S. Senate Committee on Retrenchment. He was chairman of a select committee on French spoilations.
James Bradbury, Jr. (October 5, 1894 – January 21, 1936) was an American character actor in supporting roles in films of the 1920s and 1930s.
The son of veteran character actor James Bradbury (1857–1940), New York born Bradbury, Jr. began his career on stage as a child in Madame Butterfly. Both Bradburys arrived in Hollywood around 1920, and Junior played Richard Barthelmess' rival in Classmates (1921) and The Dropkick (1927). Other roles followed, including numerous budget westerns such as The Glorious Trail (1928), Cheyenne (1929), Smilin' Guns (1929) and The Cisco Kid (1931). Later film roles tended to get smaller and uncredited, such as his bit in The Marx Brothers's Monkey Business (1931), although one of his last parts, "third vampire" opposite Bela Lugosi in Tod Browning's Mark of the Vampire (1935), showcased his distinctive boney features to good effect. By this time, however, even small parts were eluding him and he took his own life in 1936, aged 41.