James Purdum is an American animation director. Purdum is most notably known for directing several episodes of the animated series Family Guy and serves as the show's supervising director.
Purdum has also served as a director, animation timer and character layout artist for Futurama and The Simpsons.
For Family Guy he has been credited for contributing to the creation of the following episodes:
- "Blind Ambition" (2005) storyboard artist
- "The Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire" (2005) director
- "The Perfect Castaway" (2005) director
- "The Father, the Son, and the Holy Fonz" (2005) director
- "Mother Tucker" (2006) director
- "Prick Up Your Ears" (2006) director
- "Family Goy" (2009) director
- "Ratings Guy" (2012) director
- "The Simpsons Guy" (2014) Storyboard artist
- "Emmy-Winning Episode" (2017) co-director with Dominic Bianchi and Peter Shin