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Born August 12, 1950 in Laramie, Wyoming - American actor, playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, and film historian. His father was of French-English descent (in the original the surname looks like de Beauvoir; Beaver is a distant relative of the writer and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir and Governor General of Pennsylvania James Beaver). Beaver's mother had a mixture of Scottish, German and Cherokee roots and was a descendant of Senator, Governor and three-time US Attorney General John Crittenden. Although the family of Beaver's parents lived in Texas for a long time, Jim himself was born in Laramie when his father was doing his graduate work in accounting at the University of Wyoming. After returning to Texas, Jim's father worked as an accountant and minister in the Church of Christ in Fort Worth, Crowley and Dallas. Jim spent most of his youth with his family in Irving, although his father preached in neighboring communities. Jim and his three younger sisters (Denise, Renee and Tiddley) attended Irving High School (where Jim was a classmate of Frank Beard, drummer for ZZ Top), but in his final year Beaver was transferred to Christian Academy in Fort Worth, where he graduated in 1968. He also took courses at Fort Worth Christian College. Despite having starred in several school plays, Beaver showed no interest in an acting career. However, he plunged into the history of cinema and expressed a desire to start a career as a writer, several of his stories were published at school. that Beaver participated in several school plays, he showed no interest in acting. However, he plunged into the history of cinema and expressed a desire to start a career as a writer, several of his stories were published at school. that Beaver participated in several school plays, he showed no interest in acting. However, he plunged into the history of cinema and expressed a desire to start a career as a writer, several of his stories were published at school. Less than two months after graduating from high school, Beaver and several of his friends enlisted the United States Marine Corps. After initial training at a recruitment station in San Diego, Beaver trained there as a radio technician. He served at 29 Palm Base and Camp Pendleton, then was transferred in 1970 to the 1st Marine Corps Division near Da Nang, South Vietnam. He served as a radio operator in a remote detachment of the 1st Marine Regiment, then as the head of the communications unit. Beaver returned to the United States after demobilization in 1971 with the rank of corporal.
After leaving the army in 1971, Jim returned to Irving and worked for Frito-Lay for a while. Later he entered Oklahoma Christian University, where he became interested in theater. Beaver made his debut in a small play called The Miracle Worker. The following year, he transferred to Central State University (now known as the University of Central Oklahoma). He has appeared in numerous plays and moonlighted as a taxi driver, projectionist, served a tennis club and entertained people in the park. He also worked as an announcer for KCSC radio, where he hosted programs on jazz and classical music. As a student, Jim wrote plays and finished his first book (about the actor John Garfield). Beaver graduated from university in 1975 and returned to Irving. Beaver studied acting with Clyde Ventura and Maximilian Schell. The then-student Beaver made his professional debut in October 1972 at the Oklahoma Theater Center in Oklahoma City in Somerset Maugham's play Rain. After returning to Texas, Jim worked at the local theater, as a janitor at the film rental and stagehand at the Dallas Ballet. He performed in numerous plays at the 1976 Dallas Shakespeare Festival. In 1979, Jim wrote the first three plays (Spades, Sidekick and Semper Fi) for the Actors Theater of Louisville and twice became a finalist for the Great American Play Contest (with plays Once Upon a Single Bound and Verdigris). Along with plays, Beaver continued to write for film magazines, was a columnist and critic for several years, and wrote for the National Council of Film Critics magazine - Films in Review.
After moving to New York, Beaver performed on stage, toured the country and at the same time continued to write plays and research the biography of actor George Reeves. He has starred in plays such as The Hasty Heart and The Rainmaker in Birmingham, L'Alouette (The Lark) in Manchester; traveled the country as Macduff to Macbeth and plays in The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia. During this period, Jim worked on Movie Blockbusters with Stephen Schoer.
In 1983, Beaver moved to Los Angeles to continue working on a biography of George Reeves. For a year he worked in the film archive at the Variety Arts Center. After getting the audience acquainted with his play Verdigris, Jim was invited to join the prestigious Theater West in Hollywood as an actor and playwright, where Beaver works to this day. In 1985, Verdigris received good reviews and Beaver was invited to the Triad Artists agency. He immediately began working on scripts for several episodes of series, including Alfred Hitchcock Presents (for which he was nominated for a CableACE Award in 1987), Business Trip and Vietnam War Story. He also received small roles in movies and TV shows. In 1988, the Writers Guild of America revolutionized freelance writing for TV, and Beaver's career as a screenwriter came to a halt. A chance meeting leads Jim to the casting of the best friend of the star Bruce Willis in Norman Juinson's drama about Vietnam veterans - "Country". Beaver's acting career took off (Beaver was the only actual Vietnam veteran in The Country). Gruvemuvestart He has since appeared in many popular films, including Sister Act, Sliver, Bad Girls, Adaptation, Magnolia, and The Life of David Gale. He starred in Thunder Alley as Leland DuPart and as Detective Earl Gaddis in Reasonable Doubts. He was also Franch Stewart's morose boss on the sitcom Third Planet from the Sun.
In 2002, Jim starred in the drama Deadwood as Whitney Ellsworth, a gold digger whom Beaver often describes as "Gabby Hayes with Tourette's Syndrome." Ellsworth went from rags to riches to marry a wealthy woman and become a respected figure in society (initially Beaver's character did not have a name, but when it became necessary, the actor proposed to name him Whitney Ellsworth, in honor of the creator of the series Adventures Superman "with George Reeves). He continued his research on Reeves' biography, and in 2005 acted as a historical and biographical consultant in the documentary drama Death of Superman .
In 2006, Beaver joined the cast of the HBO drama John of Cincinnati, while simultaneously portraying Bobby Singer in Supernatural and Carter Reese in the other HBO drama Big Love. He then played the role of Charlie Mills in the CBS drama Harper's Island. He also played the arms dealer Lawson in Breaking Bad and Sheriff Shelby Parlow in the FX series Justice.
A year after his wife was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2003, Beaver writes his memoir Life's That Way. In the fall of 2007, Beaver sends materials to the Penguin Group. Prior to publication in 2009, it was selected by Barnes & Noble for the 2009 Discover Great New Writers.
program He wrote the script for Night Riders (2013), based on Beaver's play of the same name.

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