James A. Bethea Jr. is an American writer, producer and occasional performer, primarily in the field of television. As the former Head of Current Programming for UPN, he is among a handful of African Americans to head a programming department at a broadcast network. Series overseen by him at UPN include Star Trek Voyager, Dilbert, Clueless and Moesha. As an actor, he appears in the 2008 Iron Man and 2010 sequel, Iron Man 2.
Bethea was born in New York Citys Harlem, the son of Constance, a social worker and James Sr., a hospital laboratory technician. Following the Bronx High School of Science, he attended Hunter College, majoring in Film and Communications with a minor in Computer Science.
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