Stage Grimes 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. His other Broadway credits include
Stork Mad (1936),
Excursion (1937), and
Western Waters (1937–1938).
Radio Grimes worked on radio, beginning with the
CBS program ''
Let's Pretend. By age 12, he was appearing on 35 to 40 radio shows a week. He was also a regular on The Fred Allen Show, The Philip Morris Playhouse, Second Husband
, CBS Radio Mystery Theater, and Death Valley Days''. Grimes notably appeared as the titular robot in the 05/13/1950 episode of Dimension X, entitled "Almost Human".
Film and television In 1944, Jack Grimes moved to
California to work for
Universal and
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. His screen credits include
River Gang (in a comedy role written for
Huntz Hall),
Lady on a Train, and
Week-End at the Waldorf. In the early 1950s, Grimes 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. == Death ==