Jim J. Bullock Biography
Jim J. Bullock is an American actor and comedian who works on stage, television, and in movies. He appeared in the sitcom Too Close For Comfort.
Age
He is 69 years old as of 9 February 2024. He was born in 1955 in Casper, Wyoming, United States. His real name is James Jackson Bullock.
Family – Education
Bullock was born in Casper, Wyoming, and reared in Odessa, Texas (though he is classified as a Natrona County High School (Casper, Wyoming) alumnus). He was raised in a Southern Baptist home and as a child aspired to be an evangelical Christian pastor. He obtained a music scholarship to attend Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, Oklahoma, but dropped out before graduating.
Jim J. Bullock Partner
Bullock’s six-year companion, John Casey, died in 1996 as a result of AIDS complications. Bullock is a long-time virus survivor who, as of 2024, was still healthy, thanks in part to antiretroviral medicines.
Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $3 million.
Hairspray
He also starred as Wilbur Turnblad in the national tour of the Broadway musical Hairspray, which began on September 18, 2007. Tracy auditions for the show with the consent and encouragement of her father, Wilbur, and meets a teenage heartthrob, Link Larkin, which leads to a dream sequence. Velma Von Tussle, the bigoted producer of The Corny Collins Show, rejects Tracy at the audition due to her size, as well as a black girl named Little Inez.
Too Close for Comfort
He bappeared as Monroe Ficus in the American sitcom television series Too Close for Comfort. Henry and Muriel Rush own a two-unit house at 171-173 Buena Vista Avenue East in San Francisco, California. Henry is a conservative cartoonist who creates the comic strip Cosmic Cow, which includes a hand puppet version. Muriel is a freelance photographer. They have two grown daughters, Jackie and Sara.
Sara’s friend, Monroe Ficus, and Henry’s boss, Arthur Wainwright, the head of Wainwright Publishing, are both introduced. Monroe was originally planned to appear in only one episode, but producers expanded the character into the series.
Career
Credited as “Jim J. Bullock” since there was another “Jim Bullock” in the entertainers association, Bullock turned into a prominent diversion figure during the 1980s when he co-featured on the sitcom Really close as Monroe Ficus and was a standard visitor on John Davidson’s refreshed variant of the game show Hollywood Squares; Bullock sometimes fill in for Davidson as host. He likewise showed up as a semi-ordinary on Battlestars and sporadically on Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour and Non-verbal communication.
He later turned into a semi-customary on ALF (from 1989 to 1990) as Neal Leather expert. Bullock was the visitor host of an exceptional episode of Very Messy Twofold Challenge in 1989 in which have Marc Summers and broadcaster Harvey played against one another. The game finished with the two Summers and Harvey playing the obstruction course and winning every one of the eight awards for their separate partners. Stage partners Robin Marrella and Dave Shikiar were the visitor commentators for that episode.
After ALF went behind closed doors in 1990, Bullock stayed dynamic with theater, TV, and film work. He momentarily facilitated a partnered television show with ex-TV preacher Tammy Faye Messner. The Jim J. furthermore, Tammy Faye Show appeared in 1996, however Messner left the program a couple of months after the fact following a malignant growth determination. Bullock went on with new co-have, Ann Abernathy, and the show turned into The Jim J. also, Ann Show until it was dropped.
Bullock was the voice of Strange Duck in the enlivened series of depiction of a similar name which have showed up on both the web and the digital Broadcasting company Kickoff. In 2000, Bullock was a customary specialist on the recovery of I Have Confidential. A portion of his other critical jobs incorporate the pilled-up narcoleptic Sovereign Valium in the 1987 Mel Streams film Spaceballs, and the “not-exactly out-of-the-wardrobe” character in a dating montage toward the start of 2001’s Kissing Jessica Stein. From 2004 to 2007, he played a common part as Mr. Monroe, an instructor at the made up James K. Polk Center School on the Nickelodeon surprisingly realistic sitcom Ned’s Declassified School Survival manual. In July 2022, Bullock showed up as George in the Hollywood Bowl creation of Unusual Boots.
Movies and TV Shows
2015 – Glee
2015 – Good Job, Thanks!
2014 – Ron and Laura Take Back America
2010 – Role/Play
2010 – Frances: A Mother Divine
2009 – The Bold and the Beautiful
2009 – Cost of Living
2009 – The Fish
2008 – One, Two, Many
2008 – Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World
2006 – Queer Duck: The Movie
2005 – The Bold and the Beautiful
2004–2007 – Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide
2002 – Gaydar
2001 – Intimate Portrait
2001 – Popular
2001 – 10 Attitudes
2001 – Kissing Jessica Stein
2001 – Circuit
2000-2004 – Queer Duck
2000 – E! True Hollywood Story
2000 – Get Your Stuff
2000 – The Eyes of Tammy Faye
1996 – Roseanne
1994–1995 – Boogies Diner
1994 – Bubba Hyde
1994 – Duckman