Anecdotes

In the latter part of his career he owned a very successful home construction business, from which he made far more money than he did by acting. He built many expensive homes in Beverly Hills, and Ellison Drive in that city is named after him.

Jimmy outlived his daughter, Trudy, who died in 1977.

Best remembered as Buffalo Bill, opposite Gary Cooper's Wild Bill Hickok and Jean Arthur's Calamity Jane, in Cecil B. DeMille's Une aventure de Buffalo Bill (1936).

Son Durk, daughter Trudy (True)