And I would hate to imagine the world without either one of them.”—Susan Schindehette, Michael Alexander in Vancouver
bars had Ike and Tina Turner as the house band.
“The driver hit the brakes,” says Byrnes, “but he was going about 28 miles an hour when he hit me. Louis University.Jim broke into the TV market
In the three seasons since the series debut, Byrnes’s role has grown, both on-and offscreen. “They were salt-of-the-earth people, and all of a sudden I was an outlaw. Then, during the stormy night of Feb. 26, 1972, Byrnes and a friend were driving outside Vancouver when their pickup stalled. has been more limited, although he earned good notices as a musician in "Harmony
It was like watching a Sam Peckinpah movie.” The next day, in a hospital, “this old Scottish doctor told me, “You’ve been in a very serious accident. In 1968 he was drafted and served in the Vietnam War for a year in the 196th Infantry Brigade.
He studied acting at Boston University and St. Louis University.
Lifeguard for a "Wiseguy" reunion movie (ABC, 1996).Jim's feature film work
in Highlander.Currently, he keeps busy with TV movies and series as well as doing voice work for both commercials and cartoons.
Yet as Jim Byrnes, 41, best known for his role as Lifeguard in the CBS series Wiseguy, has proved, the 1972 car accident that cost him his legs has done anything but hinder him.
“If you’re in a wheelchair, people expect you to finger-paint and make dust cloths.” Instead, he mastered the use of artificial legs, which he likens to “stilts—with a hinge in them—and big 16-pound weights [prosthetic feet] at the bottom.”After five years of odd jobs in the Midwest, Byrnes returned to Vancouver for good in 1977 and earned a place on the blues circuit. At first, casting agents were a formidable barrier. The middle child of a St. Louis municipal accountant and a housewife, his first brush with last rites came at age 5, when a massive lung infection kept him hospitalized and sometimes comatose for three months. James F. Byrnes High School in Duncan, South Carolina. His first
It is the address where bullets were fired into the five bedroom family home in 2012 in a dramatic drive-by shooting.
Yet as Jim Byrnes, 41, best known for his role as Lifeguard in the CBS series Wiseguy, has proved, the 1972 car accident that cost him his legs has done anything but hinder him. James F. Byrnes, Jr. of Colchester passed away peacefully at home with his family by his side on Thursday, June 11th following a valiant and courageous battle with glioblastoma multiforme. This can’t be.’ ”In learning to accept the tragedy, Byrnes also rebelled against its limitations.
He hosted 26 installments of "The Jim
“We never had any problems. I remember being pulled out from under the truck, and my right leg was torn off.
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It last sold in 2004 when $4.5 million was paid by his wife, Gina.
He … People is on Community! One of the great things about the work I do is its diversity, the vastly different situations you find yourself in, the variety of people you work with and deal with on so many levels, and the opportunities to travel to so many places.
The films feature Jim as blues bar owner Joe Dawson.In 1993, he was nominated
“I got a call from a guy at a veterans’ hospital in Corpus Christi,” says Byrnes, now an Easter Seals spokesman, “and he told me how great the disabled guys felt when they saw me on TV.”These days Byrnes uses his specially equipped vintage Mercedes to shuttle between band gigs and most acting jobs.
Life and career. That sprint of a schedule leaves him little time at home with Robyn and their daughter, Caitlin, 19 months. The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story" (NBC, 1995) and reprised the role of
People.com I am so grateful to be alive, to be able to share my love of music and hope that it helps people along the way, the way it has helped me through the hardest times and the way it has helped me celebrate the best of times. Despite two swipes with death and a hard-knock life that included an episode in jail as an Army deserter, Byrnes has still managed to rack up an enviable string of credits, both on-and offscreen. “I love them both, no matter how different they are. (On May 20 he’ll star with Meg Tilly in In the Best Interest of the Child, a CBS-TV movie about a woman protecting her child against a father’s sexual abuse.) Jim Caviezel And His Wife Kerri Browitt Caviezel Married Life. Jim Byrnes Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018 Born on September 22, 1948, Jim Byrnes grew up in St. Louis, the middle child of a middle class family. His other commitments include an ongoing relationship with his first daughter, who now lives in St. Louis. Cats", and in 1996 won the Leo for Best Actor in a TV Drama for his work
He grew up on the city’s north side. According to our records, Jim Byrnes is possibly single.
Relationships. Byrnes was born in St. Louis, Missouri – that’s blues
good fortune to appear with a virtual who’s who of the blues.
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An eclectic soul, he studied for the priesthood in a seminary, and was even a professional shepherd at one point.