Ironically enough Jim wasn’t Captain Jim, he played the part of a clown who taught exercises and also got the opportunity to perform with a number of his own puppets.
While attending Point Park College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Jim would get his first experience on television, being part of a local early morning children’s show called The Captain Jim Show. He continued to develop his puppetering, acting and drama skills throughout High School. Jim first started performing in his grandmother’s backyard doing magic and puppet shows for the neighborhood children when he was about nine or ten years old. For Jim it was the experience of building and playing with the Punch and Judy puppets that allowed him to enter that world, and at the same time the puppeteering bug bit him. Joe or Star Wars action figures back then, that would allow young boys to enter into a world of role-playing and make believe. This was the first toy that he had encountered that he could role-play with.
Jim made his first puppets when his was in grade two, paper mache Punch and Judy traditional hand puppets. Jim learned a great deal from these experiences and would use these skills through out his career.
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His mother and grandmother taught him how to sew and make costumes, while his father and grandfather taught him how to use power tools to make whatever the show required. The oldest of two, grew up in Mount Oliver Borough (surrounded by Pittsburgh, PA) in a very supportive, creative and patient household where wacky ideas became the norm and everyone helped out with the backyard magic and puppet shows.
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