Jim Meskimen
- Actor
- Animation Department
- Additional Crew
Jim Meskimen is an accomplished actor, improviser and voice artist
whose work is well-known to TV and film audiences. He appeared on the
British series
Whose Line Is It Anyway? (1988)
several times, and was a recurring character on
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990)
for two seasons. He has worked with director
Ron Howard on five of his films,
including The Paper (1994),
Apollo 13 (1995),
Edtv (1999),
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
and Frost/Nixon (2008). He has also
worked in two films by director
Paul Thomas Anderson. A
professional artist, Jim exhibits and sells his realist oil paintings.
As a designer/cartoonist, he created dozens of characters, weapons and
vehicles for the original "Thundercats" animated series. Jim continues
to dazzle audiences with his improvisational skills and appears
regularly on L.A. stages. Meskimen is married to actress
Tamra Meskimen and they have a daughter,
Taylor Meskimen. His mother is Golden
Globe and Emmy-nominated actress
Marion Ross of
Happy Days (1974) and the
critically-acclaimed series,
Brooklyn Bridge (1991).
