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4 unusual facts about Jimmy Hawkins


Jimmy Hawkins

His first roles—as a two-year-old—were uncredited – Spencer Tracy's The Seventh Cross and Lana Turner's Marriage Is A Private Affair at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios.

After his acting career, Hawkins produced films, a number for ABC Theatre Productions, including Evel Knievel, based on motorcycle daredevil, and Don't Look Back: The Life of Satchel Paige (1981), starring Lou Gossett, Jr., as the legendary African American baseball pitcher Leroy "Satchel" Paige.

In the series, Hawkins rode a Pinto pony called Pixie and often used the childhood expression "Holy Toledo".

He produced a Walt Disney film, Love Leads the Way, based on the first seeing-eye dog trained in Morristown, New Jersey.



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