Jim Jordan

Voice Actor

Birthday November 16, 1896

Birth Sign Scorpio

Birthplace Illinois

DEATH DATE Apr 1, 1988 (91)

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About

Most well known for his title role in the wildly popular NBC radio comedy series Fibber McGee and Molly, he is also remembered for voicing Orville the Albatross in the 1977 Disney animated feature The Rescuers.

Before Fame

He began his entertainment career as a vaudeville performer and subsequently launched a radio show called The O'Henry Twins.

Trivia

He reprised his role as Fibber McGee in several comedy films of the 1930s and '40s, including Look Who's Laughing, with Edgar Bergen and Lucille Ball, and This Way Please, with Buddy Rogers and Betty Grable.

Family Life

He spent his youth in Chautauqua and Peoria, Illinois, and married his first wife and Fibber McGee and Molly co-star, Marian Driscoll, in 1918. He and Driscoll raised children named Kathryn and James, Jr.; following Driscoll's death in 1961, he married Gretchen Stewart.

Associated With

His plot in Culver City, California's Holy Cross Cemetery is adjacent to that of actress and Manson Family victim Sharon Tate.