Jim Byrnes (actor)
{{Short description|American-born actor and musician of blues}}
{{Infobox person
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|size=100%|OBC|CM}}
| name = Jim Byrnes
| image = Jim Byrnes 20100701 Japan Expo 1.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Byrnes at Japan Expo 2010
| birth_name = James Thomas Kevin Byrnes
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1948|9|22|mf=y}}
| birth_place = St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
| death_date =
| death_place =
| citizenship = United States
Canada
| occupation = {{flatlist|
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| years_active = 1966–present
| website = {{URL|jimbyrnes.ca}}
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James Thomas Kevin Byrnes[http://www.filmreference.com/film/61/Jim-Byrnes.html Jim Byrnes Biography and Filmography]; www.filmreference.com. {{post-nominals|country=CAN|size=100%|OBC|CM}} (born September 22, 1948) is an American actor and blues musician.
Life and career
Byrnes was born in St. Louis, Missouri on September 22, 1948. His mother was a homemaker, and his father was a municipal accountant. In 1968, during the Vietnam War, Byrnes was drafted and served in the 196th Infantry Brigade for a year.[http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20117700,00.html "The Loss of His Legs Is No Handicap for Wiseguy's Jim Byrnes"]. People, May 21, 1990.Vancouver Magazine. [http://vanmag.com/uncategorized/jim-byrness-last-stand/ "Jim Byrnes's Last Stand"], 1 July 2009. Retrieved 10 August 2019. He has lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, since the mid-1970s. On February 26, 1972, he was struck by a passing car while he attempted to help move a stalled truck on the Island Highway North of Parksville, which injured his legs and forced them both to be amputated.
In 1987, Byrnes started appearing on Wiseguy as Daniel Burroughs, better known as Lifeguard. It was his first major role and lasted until 1990. Later, he starred in the fantasy television series Highlander: The Series as Joe Dawson, a member of a secret society known as the "Watchers." He reprised his role as Dawson in Highlander: Endgame and Highlander: The Source, installments of the Highlander film series, as well as providing voices for the anime Highlander: The Search for Vengeance. He starred in his own short-lived TV show, called The Jim Byrnes Show. He played a recruiting sergeant for the Union Army in an episode of Copper called "The Children of the Battlefield."
His other television roles include Higher Ground and cartoon voices in Beast Wars: Transformers, Beast Machines: Transformers, Shadow Raiders, Stargate Infinity, Dinosaur Train as Percy Paramacellodus, Nick Fury in X-Men: Evolution, and Duke Dermail in Gundam Wing. He appeared in the Taken mini series, which broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel and an episode of The Twilight Zone entitled "Harsh Mistress". He has also appeared on the Syfy series Sanctuary, appearing as the father of Helen Magnus, played by Amanda Tapping and as Shineoa San in an episode of Andromeda as well as the voice of Virgil Vox in nine additional episodes.
As a musician, Byrnes has won the Juno Award for Blues Album of the Year three times, for That River in 1996 and House of Refuge on Black Hen Music in 2007, and for Everywhere West in 2011.See Juno Award for Blues Album of the Year. Byrnes was also honoured at the 2006 Maple Blues Awards, as Male Vocalist of the Year.{{cite web|title=2006 Maple Blues Awards Winners and Nominees|url=http://torontobluessociety.com/archive/maple-blues-awards/2006-maple-blues-awards-winners-and-nominees/|website=Toronto Blues Society|access-date=27 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510211541/http://torontobluessociety.com/archive/maple-blues-awards/2006-maple-blues-awards-winners-and-nominees/|archive-date=10 May 2012|url-status=dead}} The Canadian Folk Music Awards
recognized him as the Contemporary Singer of the Year in 2006 and 2009.{{cite web|title=Results 2006|url=http://folkawards.ca/past-years/results-2006/|website=Canadian Folk Music Awards / Prix de musique folk canadienne|access-date=27 January 2017|archive-date=14 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220614083621/http://folkawards.ca/past-years/results-2006/|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Results 2009|url=http://folkawards.ca/past-years/results-2009/|website=Canadian Folk Music Awards / Prix de musique folk canadienne|access-date=27 January 2017|archive-date=20 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220520144720/http://folkawards.ca/past-years/results-2009/|url-status=dead}}
In 2018, Byrnes performed with the Sojourners at a concert organized by the North Island Concert Society.[https://www.northislandgazette.com/home/concert-society-goes-out-on-a-high-note/ "Concert Society goes out on a high note"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190203085005/https://www.northislandgazette.com/home/concert-society-goes-out-on-a-high-note/ |date=2019-02-03 }}. North Island Gazette, Hanna Petersen. Apr. 17, 2018
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |
| scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | Role ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1980
| Party Singer | |
| 1989
| data-sort-value="First Season, The" | The First Season | Band Leader | |
| 1992
| Frank Hay | |
| 1992
| Invader | Engineer Powell (scenes deleted) | |
| 1994
| Dewey Moore | |
| 1995
| Suspicious Agenda | Lt. Rayburn | |
| 1995
| Dream Man | Jim Garrity 'The Loot' | (Video) |
| 1996
| Starlight | Rod MacArthur | |
| 1997
| Larry Millard (uncredited) | |
| 1997
| Dr. Glen Green | |
| 2000
| Monster Mash | The Prosecutor | video |
| 2000
| Joe Dawson | |
| 2003
| George | |
| 2005
| Edison | Local Merchant | |
| 2005
| Harvey | |
| 2008
| Heart of a Dragon | Ivan | |
| 2011
| She's a Soul Man | Joe Cameron | |
| 2014
| Hastings Street | Bartender | |
| 2015
| Wanderlust | Graham | |
| 2018
| 24 Piedmont Drive | Bernard Donnelly | |
| 2019
| Ada | Murray | |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |
| scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | Role ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1987
| Hands of a Stranger | Band Leader (uncredited) | Television film |
| 1987
| Tony Walter | Episode: "Deep Trouble" |
| 1988
| data-sort-value="Red Spider, The" | The Red Spider | Jack Fine | Television film |
| 1990
| In the Best Interest of the Child | Kurt | Television film |
| 1990
| data-sort-value="Klondike Christmas, A" | A Klondike Christmas | Wolfie (voice) | Television film |
| 1987–1990
| Wiseguy | Daniel Benjamin 'Lifeguard' Burroughs | 74 episodes |
| 1991
| Noah | Television film |
| 1991
| Christmas on Division Street | Benedetti | Television film |
| 1992
| Dirty Work | Stan | Television film |
| 1993
| data-sort-value="Hat Squad, The" | The Hat Squad | Carl Drake | Episode: "Dead Man Walking" |
| 1993
| The Doctor | Episode: "The Wall" |
| 1994
| data-sort-value="Legend of the Hawaiian Slammers, The" | The Legend of the Hawaiian Slammers | Additional voices | |
| 1991–1994
| Kevin | 12 episodes |
| 1995
| Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story | Vet | Television film |
| 1995
| Sliders | TV Announcer (uncredited) | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 1995
| data-sort-value="Commish, The" | The Commish | Brett Shrager | Episode: "The Kid" |
| 1996
| Wiseguy | Lifeguard | Television film |
| 1996
| Bloodhounds II | Lt. Jim McMahon | Television film |
| 1996
| For Hope | Date #1 (uncredited) | Television film |
| 1997
| Two | Col. Maxwell Foley | Episode: "The Reckoning" |
| 1997
| Lost Treasure of Dos Santos | Doc Humphries | Television film |
| 1997
| Duke Houston | Television film |
| 1993–1998
| Joe Dawson | 97 episodes |
| 1998
| Guy Hanson | Episode: "More Than Meets the Eye" |
| 1998
| data-sort-value="Jim Byrnes Show, The" | The Jim Byrnes Show | Jim Byrnes | |
| 1999
| Joe Dawson | Episode: "A Matter of Time" |
| 1998–1999
| data-sort-value="Net, The" | The Net | Mr. Olivier | 9 episodes |
| 1999
| Dick Hofstedder | 4 episodes |
| 2000
| Frank Markasian | 5 episodes |
| 2000
| Ramp | Episodes: "Spirit Junction" |
| 2000
| Bartender | Television film |
| 2000
| Tyler Greer | Episode: "Shadowland" |
| 2000
| Level 9 | General Theodore Nemec | Episode: "Eat Flaming Death" |
| 1998–2001
| data-sort-value="Outer Limits, The" | The Outer Limits | Merlin, Gary Latimer | 2 episodes |
| 2002
| Due East | Father Berkely | Television film |
| 2002
| data-sort-value="Dead Zone, The" | The Dead Zone | Vic Goodman | Episode: "Unreasonable Doubt" |
| 2002
| data-sort-value="Twilight Zone, The" | The Twilight Zone | Dion | Episode: "Harsh Mistress" |
| 2002
| | Episode: "Fading Star" |
| 2002
| Taken | Busker | Episode: "Acid Tests" |
| 2002
| Polar Bear (voice) |
| 2003
| Jake 2.0 | James Skerritt | 3 episodes |
| 2004
| Documentary Narrator | Episode: "Heroes: Part 2" |
| 2004–2005
| Virgil Vox, Shineoa San | 13 episodes |
| 2005
| Professor | Episode: "Bugs" |
| 2005–2006
| Councillor Eddie Banks | 2 episodes |
| 2007
| Highlander: The Search for Vengeance | Doc, Rudy |
| 2007
| Joe Dawson | Television film |
| 2007
| Don't Cry Now | Steve | Television film |
| 2007
| Sanctuary | Gregory Magnus | Miniseries |
| 2010
| V | Matthew | Episode: "John May" |
| 2011
| Goodnight for Justice | Governor | Television film |
| 2011
| Hellcats | Giles | 2 episodes |
| 2008–2011
| Gregory Magnus | 5 episodes |
| 2011
| Deck the Halls | Morgan the radio DJ | Television film |
| 2013
| Copper | Sgt. Major Atticus Reid | Episode: "The Children of the Battlefield" |
| 2013
| Roy Smalls | Episode: "Job Security" |
| 2014
| Paper Angels | Bill Price | Television film |
| 2014
| Cart | Episode: "The Oath" |
| 2015
| data-sort-value="Romeo Section, The" | The Romeo Section | Reverend Ortelli | 4 episodes |
| 2016
| data-sort-value="Legend of Davy Crockett, The" | The Legend of Davy Crockett | John Patton | Television film |
| 2018
| James Edward Bailey | Episode: "Trevor" |
| 2021
| Sister Swap: Christmas in the City | Luke Swift | Television film (Hallmark) |
| 2022
| Matthews | 1 episode |
=Animation=
| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |
| scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | Role ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1989
| G.I. Joe: Operation Dragonfire | Alley Viper, Crimson Guard - Fake Lama, Night-Viper | 5 episodes |
| 1989
| Wizard Moore (voice) | |
| 1989–1990
| Additional voices | 16 episodes |
| 1990–1991
| G.I. Joe | Additional voices | 19 episodes |
| 1992–1993
| Epimetrius | 5 episodes |
| 1993
| Dr. Light | |
| 1993–1994
| Madeline | Additional voices | |
| 1992–1994
| King Arthur and the Knights of Justice | Merlin | 26 episodes |
| 1994
| Conan and the Young Warriors | Epimetrius the Sage | 13 episodes |
| 1995
| data-sort-value="New Adventures of Madeline, The" | The New Adventures of Madeline | Additional voices | 13 episodes |
| 1994–1996
| Mega Man | Doctor Light, Sigma, Pharaoh Man, Air Man, Quick Man, Top Man, Gravity Man | 27 episodes |
| 1996
| Nelson | Episode: "Winner Take All" |
| 1996
| Vortech: Undercover Conversion Squad | Additional voices | 2 episodes |
| 1996
|Father Wolf (voice) |
| 1996
| Additional voices | 13 episodes |
| 1994–1996
| Additional voices | 7 episodes |
| 1997
| Dekim Barton | |
| 1998
| Mummies Alive! The Legend Begins | Additional voices | |
| 1998
| data-sort-value="Animated Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The" | The Animated Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Pop (voice) |
| 1998
| Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie | Elf Crowd Member #2 |
| 1997–1999
| Inferno | |
| 1997–1999
| Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths & Legends | Additional voices | 40 episodes |
| 1998–1999
| Grand Vizier | 8 episodes |
| 1998–1999
| Mr. Brink | 40 episodes |
| 1998
|Brian Wallace / Dan Fantastic |
| 1999–2000
| Beast Machines: Transformers | Thrust | |
| 1999–2001
| Additional voices | 26 episodes |
| 2000–2001
| Rip Hickory, Dodger |
| 2001
| Fire Drake | Episode: "Cry Vulture" |
| 2001–2002
| Additional voices | 26 episodes |
| 2001–2002
| Alienators: Evolution Continues | Additional voices | 17 episodes |
| 2002
| Inspector Gadget's Last Case | Chief Quimby |
| 2002
| Dennis the Menace: Cruise Control | Kraigor | |
| 2002
| Madeline: My Fair Madeline | Mayor of Paris |
| 2002–2003
| 7 episodes |
| 2005
| Inspector Gadget's Biggest Caper Ever | Chief Quimby |
| 2007
| Madeline in Tahiti | Scarfaced Man |
| 2009
| Jack Wheeler |
| 2010
| Percy Paramacellodus |
| 2012
| |
| 2013
| Viggo Dare |
| 2016
| My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic | Gladmane |
| 2018
| Take Two | Josiah Carberry | Episode: "Stillwater" |
Discography
=Solo=
- Burning (1981) Polydor (vinyl)CD re-release 1998, Stony Plain Records, coupled with I Turned My Nights Into Days.
- I Turned My Nights into Days (1987) Stony Plain Records (vinyl)CD re-release, 1998, Stony Plain Records, coupled with Burning.
- That River (1995) Stony Plain1996 Juno Award for Blues Album of the Year.Re-released 1997 on Band Together label, with the tracks in a different order.
- Love Is a Gamble (2001) One Coyote MusicLimited pre-release; no general release.
- Fresh Horses (2004) Black Hen MusicContains six of the nine songs found on Love Is A Gamble; see [http://www.jimbyrnes.org/music.htm Jim Byrnes detailed discography]; www.jimbyrnes.org.
- House of Refuge (2006) Black Hen Music2007 Juno Award for Blues Album of the Year.
- My Walking Stick (2009) Black Hen Music
- Everywhere West (2011) Black Hen Music2010 Juno Award for Blues Album of the Year.
- I Hear the Wind in the Wires (2012) Black Hen Music
- St. Louis Times (2014) Black Hen Music
- Long Hot Summer Days (2017) Black Hen Music
=Compilation Inclusions=
- Vancouver Seeds 2 (1981)
- Saturday Night Blues: 20 Years (2006) CBCA compilation album of live performances from the Saturday Night Blues radio program on CBC Radio, hosted by Holger Petersen. Byrnes' "Blood In My Eyes" (also known as "I've Got Blood In My Eyes For You" and originally recorded on Fresh Horses) is included.
References
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External links
- [https://www.jimbyrnes.ca/ Jim Byrnes Website]
- {{IMDb name|id=0126325|name=Jim Byrnes}}
- {{IMDb title|id=181229|title=The Jim Byrnes Show}}
- {{Discogs artist|Jim Byrnes}}
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