Jack Grimes

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 Lets Pretend He was also a regular on The Fred Allen Show The Philip Morris Playhouse Second Husband CBS Radio Myster 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 WeekEnd 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 as well as 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 He retired from acting in 1991