- Then known at Jamie Newlander, Jamison and Jami Gertz were the two Jamies during the shooting of The Lost Boys. Both received professional training at New York University.
- Is credited in the end credits of Lost Boys: The Tribe (2008), even though his character only appears in two deleted alternate endings.
- When he was younger, he aspired to be an orthopaedic surgeon, inspired by the doctors that helped him with his own condition, Osteochondritis dissecans. To make money to get into medical school, his mother suggested he did commercials. Ironically, this instead lead him to an acting career.
- He wore leg braces from ages 7-9 because of a condition called Osteochondritis of the apophysis of the femur (now known as Osteochondritis dissecans.) With the leg braces, he played baseball and had somebody else run for him after he hit the ball.
- First cousin of producer Rachel P. Newlander
- He didn't go to the original audition for "The Lost Boys," but his agent managed to get him into the callback, and he got the role.
- Despite being an accomplished writer, he has mild dyslexia.
- Jamison wore several hats, in particular that of producer, for his short subject film Rooster. Rooster played on the film festival circuit, most notably at the Hamptons International Film Festival in 2003.
- In his first scene in "The Lost Boys," the fatigues he wears is a re-creation of his father's army uniform that he wore to the audition.
- Has two sons with his wife Hanny Landau: Nathan Dov Newlander (born 15 August 2008) and Azi Sylvester Newlander (born 12 November 2012).
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