Javier Bardem

In 2004, he won the Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for his role in The Sea Inside, a film about the true-life suicide of Ramón Sampedro. And a list of films (see IMDB) including "Inherit The Wind" with Spencer Tracey. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the role, the first Spaniard to be so honored. Jimmy showed he had comedic talents in TV series including, Bachelor Father, Date With The Angels, Betty White Show, Broadside, My Three Sons, Mother Inlaws etc. He became well-known outside of Spain when he starred in Before Night Falls in 2000, as homosexual Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas. Jimmy had several other number one records teaming up with Frankie Laine "tell Me A Story" "Dennis The Menace " with Rosemary Clooney. But his role in that film as a sexy stud made him afraid that he would be typecast, and he deliberately decided to avoid such roles later. The Frank Sinatra Show CBS soon followed, then Columbia Records and "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus", which to date has sold over sixty million records.

In 1992 he appeared in Jamón, jamón, an international hit movie. Jarvis immediatly announced Jimmy would be a regular on the show. He was a member of the Spanish national rugby team. Al Jarvis had a five hour talk show everyday on KLAC with a few regulars on it, including Betty White called "Make Believe Ballroom". His film debut was at the age of 6, and he appeared in several television series before turning to painting and, eventually, athletics. Upwards of twenty thousand telegrams and phone calls. Born in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, he is the latest in a long line of a family which has been making movies since the earliest days of Spanish movie making. Jimmy to his astonishment won the talent show, and the next day Al Jarvis and KLAC were literally deluged in telegrams and telephone calls from viewers.

Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (born March 1, 1969) is a Spanish actor. Jimmy auditioned for Al Jarvis and was such a hit they put him on the show that night. Jamon Jamon (1992). they were told about auditions being held for the Al Jarvis Talent Show on KLAC-TV. Golden Balls (1993). While in L.A. Mouth To Mouth (1996). Cataract surgery in the forties was a serious operation, and had to be done in Los Angeles.

Live Flesh (1997). Leslie had cataracts in both eyes and had to have surgery. Perdita Durango (1997). Fifty dollars was a lot of money for the Boyds, but Jimmy enjoyed performing and would have done it for nothing. Second Skin (2000). They offered to pay Jimmy fifty dollars every show. Before Night Falls (2000). After the dance was over, Texas Jim Lewis and the manager of a local radio station came to Jimmy's parents and asked if he could come sing every Saturday night, and be a part of the hour long radio show they planned to broadcast from the dance.

Between Your Legs (2003). Jimmy sang and played and the crowd went wild. The Dancer Upstairs (2003). Texas Jim Lewis, the band leader, called little Jimmy up on the stage. Mondays In The Sun (2003). Jimmy's older brother Kenneth, about nine years old at the time, went up to the bandstand and told the band leader he should hear his little brother sing and play the guitar. The Sea Inside (2004). Leslie and Winnie ocassionaly took the kids with them to a Country and Western dance, held in a barn in Colton, California a few miles from Riverside.

Leslie got a meanial job cleaning up construction sites. Although there was no cotton in California to pick, this time they were determined to stay. The family after being sent back to Mississippi a year earlier by the Welfare Department for not having any skills to get a good job. Leslie had been a farmer when the draught hit and there were no more crops, he picked cotton, he could pick over five hundred pounds of cotton a day himself, and was paid twenty five cents. Hoboing from Mississippi, Louisiana and as far as West Texas, picking cotton to help support his own family of twenty-one brothers and sisters.

He hitchhiked on freight trains to join his family in California, something he had done growing up through the Depression. Having sold everything they owned, and only having enough money for his wife's ticket and the two toddler boys, Leslie rode the rails. In 1941 his father Leslie Boyd put his wife Winnie, their two sons Kenneth four years old, and Jimmy two years old on a train bound for Riverside, California. He was born January 9, 1939 in an old farmhouse in McComb, Mississippi.

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