Biographies: Jimmy Rogers - Actor

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An American actor, horse rancher, polo player and newspaperman, born as James Blake Rogers in New York City, USA, on July 25, 1915. He was married two times and had 3 children. Some of his works are Jes’ Call Me Jim (1920), Texas Masquerade (1944), Calaboose (1943) and False Colors (1943). He began acting when he was a child, as he worked with his father in 4 silent films. He attended Pomona College, but he left it when his father died in a plane accident, and because he was inclined to raise horses, he bought a farm in the thirties in Santa Barbara, but shifted to acting later and presented 3 western comedies with Noah Beery Jr., then 6 western films with William Boyd. He then joined the US Marine Corps, during World War II, and worked as a writer and correspondent, and after the war, he ran a daily newspaper with his brother. He died of cancer in Bakersfield, California, USA, on April 28, 2000, at age 84.

• 23 February 2023
• Shaimaa Saied