Jimmy Boyd

And a list of films (see IMDB) including "Inherit The Wind" with Spencer Tracey.
. Jimmy showed he had comedic talents in TV series including, Bachelor Father, Date With The Angels, Betty White Show, Broadside, My Three Sons, Mother Inlaws etc. He died from cancer in London. Jimmy had several other number one records teaming up with Frankie Laine "tell Me A Story" "Dennis The Menace " with Rosemary Clooney. In the last years of his life he taught drama at the Actors Centre and the Academy of Live and Performing Arts, and also worked in association with RADA, generally in the role of promoting the organisation, or providing advice to acting students. The Frank Sinatra Show CBS soon followed, then Columbia Records and "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus", which to date has sold over sixty million records. He continued working regularly on stage and appeared in a number of made for television movies and mini-series.

Jarvis immediatly announced Jimmy would be a regular on the show. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981), and Agatha Christie's Evil Under the Sun (1982), the latter reuniting him with his The Misanthrope co-star Diana Rigg. Al Jarvis had a five hour talk show everyday on KLAC with a few regulars on it, including Betty White called "Make Believe Ballroom". H. Upwards of twenty thousand telegrams and phone calls. His most widely seen screen performance was as Lancelot in the 1981 film Excalibur, and he also appeared in the film versions of D. Jimmy to his astonishment won the talent show, and the next day Al Jarvis and KLAC were literally deluged in telegrams and telephone calls from viewers. Among his successes was The Misanthrope, which led Clay to the United States, where he also played this role on Broadway in 1975.

Jimmy auditioned for Al Jarvis and was such a hit they put him on the show that night. He was cast in several of Laurence Olivier's Old Vic productions and during the decade came to be regarded as one of British theatres most promosing actors. they were told about auditions being held for the Al Jarvis Talent Show on KLAC-TV. He and also appeared in several West End theatre productions. While in L.A. Born in London, England, Clay studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and began his acting career in the early 1970s with small parts in film and television. Cataract surgery in the forties was a serious operation, and had to be done in Los Angeles. Nicholas Anthony Phillip Clay (September 18, 1946 - May 25 - 2000) was a British actor.

Leslie had cataracts in both eyes and had to have surgery. Fifty dollars was a lot of money for the Boyds, but Jimmy enjoyed performing and would have done it for nothing. They offered to pay Jimmy fifty dollars every show. After the dance was over, Texas Jim Lewis and the manager of a local radio station came to Jimmy's parents and asked if he could come sing every Saturday night, and be a part of the hour long radio show they planned to broadcast from the dance.

Jimmy sang and played and the crowd went wild. Texas Jim Lewis, the band leader, called little Jimmy up on the stage. Jimmy's older brother Kenneth, about nine years old at the time, went up to the bandstand and told the band leader he should hear his little brother sing and play the guitar. Leslie and Winnie ocassionaly took the kids with them to a Country and Western dance, held in a barn in Colton, California a few miles from Riverside.

Leslie got a meanial job cleaning up construction sites. Although there was no cotton in California to pick, this time they were determined to stay. The family after being sent back to Mississippi a year earlier by the Welfare Department for not having any skills to get a good job. Leslie had been a farmer when the draught hit and there were no more crops, he picked cotton, he could pick over five hundred pounds of cotton a day himself, and was paid twenty five cents. Hoboing from Mississippi, Louisiana and as far as West Texas, picking cotton to help support his own family of twenty-one brothers and sisters.

He hitchhiked on freight trains to join his family in California, something he had done growing up through the Depression. Having sold everything they owned, and only having enough money for his wife's ticket and the two toddler boys, Leslie rode the rails. In 1941 his father Leslie Boyd put his wife Winnie, their two sons Kenneth four years old, and Jimmy two years old on a train bound for Riverside, California. He was born January 9, 1939 in an old farmhouse in McComb, Mississippi.

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