Jim Turner Net Worth is
$17 Million

Mini Biography

Jim Turner is getting into his 7th period co-starring in HBO’s strike humor series Arli$$ (1996) as lovable lout, “Kirby Carlisle”. Playing an ex-football-star-turned-agent and a vintage buddy of sports activities agent “Arliss Michaels” (Robert Wuhl), Jim Turner, boyishly blond behind “Clark Kent” eyeglasses, reaches once ubiquitous and indefinable. Oddly enough enough, the present was cancelled following the 3rd period but a public-viewer-demand advertising campaign had it restored. In 22 Feature Movies and shorts, 28 Television Series and appearances, and 18 stage has, one-man-shows and comedy travels, Turner gets the odd difference of fabricating the weirdest band of cult favorites imaginable, from pinheads to “Pinocchio”. Dealing with abilities like Joel Schumacher, Robert Wuhl, Jack port Dark, Paul Bartel and Tracey Ullman, if there is a likable loser or even a crazy kook, Jim Turner provides performed it. He actually voiced a feet in Philip Holahan’s cartoon brief film, “Stubble Problems” (champion Honorable Point out, Sundance, 1999; champion Best Humor, Hollywood Film Event). In 1979, Turner got his begin in tv when he developed the live incarnation of the cult comic remove character well-known for his non-sequiturs, “Zippy The Pinhead”. The underground series obtained recognition as obscure Zippy went for Chief executive. This marketing campaign idea continuing with another personality Turner performed – MTV’s “Randee through the Redwoods”. In a huge selection of places that shown over 1987 to 1990, Randee became the dark equine candidate for Leader, because of MTV’s marketing section. Turner’s Film credits work from big studio room releases like the Lost Children (1987), St. Elmo’s Fireplace (1985), The Ref (1994) (starring Denis Leary), Coldblooded (1995) (starring Jason Priestley) and Fox’s 12:01 (1993) (starring Jonathan Silverman and Helen Slater). He was in Mockumentaries Porklips Today (1980) (skewering Apocalypse Today (1979)), and Grunt! The Wrestling Film (1985) (lampooning pro wrestling), prior to the genre was hip. He co-wrote and starred in celebration favorite Shelf Lifestyle (1993) (aimed by Paul Bartel, co-starring O’Lan Jones and Andy Stein), the bizarre tale of three kids who increase themselves within a bomb shelter, modified from Turner’s play. As well as the filmed edition of his exciting ensemble stage display Girly Newspaper Party was re-titled 364 Young ladies per year (1996), which he co-wrote and starred in as “Tellis Wondersweet”, within a comic take a look at a Hugh M. Hefner-type’s lifestyle on the manse. You can also find Turner in movies with an extremely independent bent, like the Pompatus of Love (1995) (with Kristin Scott Thomas and Michael McKean), My Samurai (1992), Destroyer (1988) (with Anthony Perkins), Programmed to Kill (1987), and Kid Colter (1984). Since that time, Turner has generated assignments in Pilots prior to the surveillance camera (including live-action/ani combined ‘Bang’ by George Meyer from the Simpsons (1989); OVER THE Ropes for The WB; and Fathead for Nickelodeon). In 1995, Turner was also a string regular on CBS’s OTHERWISE for you personally (1995) because the offbeat “Cal” (starring Hank Azaria, Elizabeth McGovern and Peter Krause). He recurred on Nickelodeon’s Sports activities Movie theater With Shaquille O’Neal (1997-98); on HBO’s DEFINITELY NOT The Election, anchored by Dennis Miller (1996); and on Nickelodeon’s strike series, Rugrats (1993). Network visitor appearances consist of Dharma & Greg (ABC), That 70s Present (Fox), Tracey ASSUMES… (HBO), Sliders (Sci-Fi route), Lost ON THE PLANET (USA), Sophistication Under Open fire (ABC), The Larry Sanders Display (HBO), Tom (ABC), and Roseanne (ABC). But he’d been performing in television, films, theater and touring the country since 1975 within the five-member comedy troupe Duck’s Breathing Mystery Theater (where he co-wrote the displays and created the type of Randee in 1977). Live stage displays abounded when Turner visited SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, where he was the business lead vocalist/lyricist for the toy-instrument-playing Rock and roll Band/Performance, Performers Child’s Part (1978-81). In 1982 he shaped Boomer, a long-lived four-person novelty Music group, again as business lead vocalist and lyricist. Duck’s Breathing and Turner’s single turns collected regular enthusiasts in NY, including authors at Rolling Rock Magazine, makers at MTV and directors from Hollywood. Getting in LA in 1991, Turner quickly released his one-man humor, “Showbiz Nightmares”, and adopted it using the 1st Girly Journal Party staging in 1992 (displays continue to today). His most recent live show is normally 100 % pure comic debauchery: Two-Headed Pup. But Turner’s trump credit card of showbiz nightmares is normally his fate because the lead of ABC’s 1987 Once A Hero. The Pilot marketed with him starring within the tailor-made function of naive comic reserve superhero, ‘Captain Justice’. The network “in advance” was a smash strike, all the family members in Iowa had been thrilled – and the network changed him on the last minute. Oddly enough, the show passed away after 5 shows. If Turner lets you know he was created in a truck, he’s not kidding. Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1952. Dad George Turner is at the Air Drive then, but shortly proceeded to go into radio sports activities casting as well as the family members moved a lot: Quebec, Az and lastly to Iowa in 1954 to become elevated a polite, timid, sports-loving geek in a number of small towns over the condition. Upon shifting to LA in 1991 with bride-to-be Lynn Freer, a striking artist turned panorama designer, they wedded in 1992 and got a boy – definitely not in that purchase. The actor-writer likes that additional hyphenated job as well: father-husband. Like dad, like boy: both want to golf, play golf ball and invent additional worlds peopled by fringe personas and funny calamities.

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