James Denton

James Denton is an American actor best known for playing Mike Delfino on Desperate Housewives and Dr. Sam Radford on Good Witch. Denton grew up in Goodlettsville, Nashville, where he attended Goodlettsville High School and later went on to enroll in the University of Tennessee. He graduated with honors in 1986 with a bachelor’s degree in advertising.

Denton worked in advertising for several years before beginning his acting career in Nashville community theater. He later moved to Chicago to pursue acting full time, appearing in stage productions before relocating to Los Angeles. His early television credits include The Pretender, The Drew Carey Show and The West Wing, while his film work included Face/Off (1997), That Old Feeling (1997) and Primary Colors (1998). His breakthrough came in 2004, when he was cast as Mike Delfino on Desperate Housewives.

Denton starred on Desperate Housewives for all eight seasons and later played Dr. Sam Radford on Good Witch from 2015 to 2021. He went on to appear in several other films as well, including Grace Unplugged (2013), For Love & Honor (2016) and Wake (2018). Denton and the Desperate Housewives cast won two Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.

Denton married actress Jenna Lyn Ward in 1997 and they divorced in 2000. He married Erin O’Brien in 2002 and they have two children, son Sheppard (born in 2003) and daughter Malin (born in 2005).