Jim Beaver
James Norman Beaver Jr. (born August 12, 1950) is an American actor, playwright, screenwriter, and film historian. He is most familiar to worldwide audiences as Bobby Singer in Supernatural. He also played Whitney Ellsworth on the HBO Western drama series Deadwood, which brought him acclaim and a Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination for Ensemble Acting, and Sheriff Shelby Parlow on the FX series Justified. His memoir Life's That Way was published in April 2009.
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| Full name at birth | James Norman Beaver, Jr.
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| Date of birth | 12 August 1950
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| Place of birth | Laramie, WY
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- Character on supernatural, "Bobby Singer" named after director, writer, and executive producer of the show, Robert Singer.
- As of 7/7/07, was the seventh most prolific writer of IMDb plot summaries and the seventh most prolific writer of IMDb mini biographies.
- Worked at Frontier City Theme Park in Oklahoma City as a Gunfighter.
- Plays a character on "Deadwood" (2004) named Whitney Ellsworth, which was the name of the producer of "Adventures of Superman" (1952), which starred George Reeves. Beaver wrote a biography of Reeves.
- At this writing (2006) is preparing a definitive biography of Superman actor George Reeves. He recently served as historical consultant on the film about Reeves life, Hollywoodland (2006).
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