A native of Manhattan's west-side neighborhood, better known as Hell's Kitchen. Jim spent the early years of his career at Herbert Berghoff Studios in Greenwich Village, Going to work on Equity stages, with a concentrated focus on the Modern American Classics, Steinbeck, Saroyan, Miller, Odets, Tennessee Williams etc... In 2001 Jim received two different Best Actor Nominations for his work on Eugene Ionesco's 'Rhinoceros", the famed allegory of Hitler's control of the Vichey Government. That
