Jim Turner is entering his 7th season co-starring in HBO's hit comedy series _"Arli$$" . His latest live show is pure comic debauchery: Two-Headed Dog. But Turner's trump card of showbiz nightmares is his fate as the lead of ABC's 1987 Once A Hero. The Pilot sold with him starring in the tailor-made role of naive comic book superhero, 'Captain Justice'. The network "upfront" was a smash hit, all the relatives in Iowa were thrilled - and then the network replaced him at the last minute. Interestingly, the show died after 5 episodes. If Turner tells you he was born in a trailer, he's not kidding. Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1952. Father George Turner was in the Air Force then, but soon went into radio sports casting and the family moved quite a bit: Quebec, Arizona and finally to Iowa in 1954 to be raised a polite, shy, sports-loving geek in several small towns across the state. Upon moving to Los Angeles in 1991 with bride-to-be Lynn Freer, a bold artist turned landscape designer, they married in 1992 and had a son - not necessarily in that order. The actor-writer enjoys that other hyphenated job too: father-husband. Like father, like son: both love to golf, play basketball and invent other worlds peopled by fringe characters and funny calamities.
Was MTVs Randee of the Redwoods in the 1980s.
Has Type-1 diabetes.
Kicker for the New York Jets (1964-1970) and Denver Broncos (1971-1979).
69-60 record with a 3.22 ERA for the Boston Bees (1937-1939), Cincinnati Reds (1940-1942), and New York Yankees (1942-1945). Yankees pitching coach for Casey Stengel from 1949-1959. 1938 NL All-Star.
Got his nickname because he worked as a milkman during the off-season.
