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Supernatural Trivia Born on August 12, 1950 in Laramie, Wyoming, Jim Beaver is a film, stage and television actor, historian, screenwriter, and author best known for his role on the HBO Western series Deadwood, alongside a long list of shows he has either graced as guest star or regular. The son of a minister of French and English ancestry and the descendant of a famed American attorney general, Beaver was born in Wyoming even though it was in Texas where his family settled in for a long time. His father was doing graduate studies at the University of Wyoming. When they returned to the lone-star state, the family moved to Irving. He attended Irving High School and later on transferred to Fort Worth Christian Academy during his senior year, eventually graduating in 1968. He took courses at Fort Worth Christian College but didn’t show any interest in acting as he was more into film history and writing.
Shortly after high school, Beaver was recruited into the United States Marine Corps. He had basic training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, eventually serving with the 1st Marine Division in Vietnam in 1970, where he served as a radio operator and later as supply chief for the division communications company. He went back to the US in 1971 and officially left the service in 1976. When he went back and transferred to Central State University, he finally got into acting and acted in several plays. Among the jobs he took to support himself include driving a cab, a movie projectionist, a tennis-club maintenance man, and a newscaster.
Beaver made his professional stage debut in 1972 in an Oklahoma Theater Center production of Rain. He joined the Shakespeare Festival of Dallas in 1976 and continued to write for film journals as a columnist, critic, and feature writer in magazines. In 2002, Beaver was cast in the Western drama Deadwood. His later credits included another HBO drama John from Cincinnati, alongside recurring roles on Supernatural, Big Love, and Harper's Island.
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