Acting
Community Rating
7.6
TMDB estimate
Born
April 1, 1926
Died
March 10, 2009 (age 82)
Born in
New York City, New York
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 Let's 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 Week-End 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.

The Car Acrobatic Team Saga
as Sparky / Snake Oiler
2024

The Amazing Feats of Young Hercules
1997

Speed Racer: The Movie
as Chim-Chim / Sparky (voice)
1992
On the Rocks
1975

Star Blazers
as Galman General Gustaf
1974

Police Woman
1974

Cold Turkey
as TV Stage Manager
1971

All in the Family
as Mr. Whitehead
1971

Pendulum
as Artie
1969

Mayberry R.F.D.
as Vince
1968

Ironside
1967

The New Adventures of Superman
as Jimmy Olsen (voice)
1966

The Detectives
1959

Inner Sanctum
1954

Robert Montgomery Presents
as William Burke Miller
1950

River Gang
as Goofy
1945