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Jack Grimes (April 1, 1926 – March 10, 2009) was an American voice and radio actor who played Jimmy Olsen in the last three years of ''The Adventures of Superman'' radio program, the 1966 Filmation TV series ''The New Adventures of Superman'', and also for his performance on the 1967 anime ''Speed Racer''. ==Life and career== Grimes was born in New York City. His acting career began at age seven, during the depression, when he helped earn money for his family. He appeared as Jackie Grimes in the Broadway play ''The Old Maid,'' which won a Pulitzer Prize and ran for 10 months in New York. It then went on tour for another 11 months. Grimes worked on radio, beginning with the CBS program ''Let's Pretend''. He was also a regular on ''The Fred Allen Show'', ''The Philip Morris Playhouse'', ''Second Husband'', ''CBS Radio Mystery Theater'', and ''Death Valley Days''. By age 12, he was appearing on 35 to 40 radio shows a week. In 1944, he moved to California to work for Universal. His credits include ''Fairytale Murder'', ''Lady on a Train'', and ''Week-End at the Waldorf''. In the early 1950s, he switched to television. His credits include ''Alcoa Presents'', ''Love of Life'', ''The Aldrich Family'', ''Tom Corbett, Space Cadet'', ''Maude'', ''On the Rocks'', and ''All in the Family''. In 1962, Grimes and Peter Fernandez worked together on a series of records for MGM. Five years later, Fernandez hired him to do the voices of Sparky and Chim Chim on ''Speed Racer''. Grimes died in Queens, New York in 2009 at the age of 82. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jack Grimes (actor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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