I was born in 1937 at the Cincinnati General Hospital in Ohio at 5:24 AM in the morning.  As the years passes. I was shipped back and fore from Cincinnati to Waco Kentucky to work on the farm. Then, World War II came alone. At the age of five and growing up on the Ohio River was very exciting for me. I would ride on the River Queen Steam boats that would steam up and down the Ohio River and dock at various small towns on the river. Living on the Ohio River in a small town name Riverside Ohio was like the story you read about Tom Sawyer life on the river. It was great growing up in Cincinnati.  The bars, saloons and streets were filled with benders selling food, clothing and other items. The river front streets were filled with people and music of the south. I would sneak into the various live entertainment shows and watch the entertainers perform on stage.  I enjoy listening to the black performers singing spirituals and playing blues music.  I knew from those moments, I was going to be an entertainer.   In 1944 my family moved to Glendale/Atwater California. Our house was located a short distant from Warner Bros Studio lot. My first paying job was in June of 1946. I worked at the Las Felix Riding Stables, on the corner of Las Felix Blvd and Riverside Drive, which was at the edge of Griffin Park and Griffin Park was at the edge of Warner Bros Studio and a mile further or more was Universal Studio. The Hudkins Movie Live Stock Stable was sandwich between Warner Bros Studio and Griffin Park. After cleaning the barn stalls and chasing runway horses that were rented by tourist. I would sneak into Warner Bros Studio lot and watch the excitement of a motion picture being film. That was an exciting part of my life growing up and meeting character actors and atmosphere extras that were working on various Warner Bros film productions.   In 1949, my father moves the family to Baldwin Park California, twenty miles from the Warner Bros Studio lot. My father started a chicken ranch business. For the next five years I study acting and learning to play the trombone. I played in the Baldwin Park High School Marching Band. On the weekend, I would break horses for various stables in the area. In 1953, I got my driver license. Then drag racing at Pomona Drag Strip became my love. So I talk my father in buying a wreck car. It was a 1950 Oldsmobile V8 hard top convertible. I restore the vehicle and install a 455 cubic engine with two four barrel carburetors, a 4:10 racing gear rear end, bore and stroke the engine and a ¾ racing cam and lots of other equipment. On January 19, 1955, I enter the United Air Force. I trained at various technical schools, learning aircraft electrical system and E4 fire control systems. While going to tech school, I try out for the Air Force dance band on the base. I was transfer to Naha Air Force Base Okinawa in November 1955. In the day time I would work on the flight line repairing aircraft and at night I would perform at the various clubs such as;   US Navy Seamen Clubs, Army and Air Force Officer Clubs and Army and Air Force Enlisted Men Clubs.  In September of 1958, I was discharge honorably from the United Air Force. I enroll into Mount San Antonio Jr. College, Walnut California and my major was music. I study acting at Pasadena Jr. College on Mondays and Thursdays and music at Mount San Antonio Jr. College Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays. I played in SAC marching bands, Pasadena concert orchestra, various dance bands on college campus and professional big bands in Hollywood. I was invited to sit in with a group of studio musician at the Musician Union Hall in Hollywood, which allows me to meet some singers and musician that were working in Las Vegas.  In 1961, I left college and started working in Las Vegas at the Stardust Hotel and Casino, as a background singer and later a comedian and a musician in the late late night lounge shows. In 1962 I moved back to Los Angeles. I started knocking on studio doors again, trying to get a job in films. It was hard to be rejected so many times. So, I apply for a job at Electro Data Corporation in Pasadena California. I work as a Senior Technician in testing large computer systems for Chase Manhattan Bank of New York. Within that same year, I was offer a position at Douglas Aircraft Company in Santa Monica California, as a Senior Technician position on a government missile project in the pacific. I quickly change job from an inside job to an outside job that paid much more money. After my contract was up, I came back home and started looking for work in the entertainment field once again. I was playing in small jazz bands here and there around Southern California. Life wasn’t going in the direction that I wanted to be. Then out of the blue I received a telephone call from an old friend I knew in the Air Force. He was producing a low budget film. He ask me if I would do my old comedy/musical routine that he and I did on stage in Okinawa, while a stunt fight was going on.  That was the night I met Orrin Harvey, Bob Herron President of the Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures and a number of other Hollywood stuntmen. Orrin Harvey invited me down to Paul Stader gym in Santa Monica. A number of months later, Orrin introduce me to Lance Rimmer at Universal Studio Tours “Wild West Comedy and Stunt Show.”  I audition and worked the next eleven years at Universal Studio Tours in that live show. In those eleven years I work in various television shows in the lower Universal lot and worked on many low budge film productions as a stuntman/actor.   I was asks to come to MCA Tower at Universal to meet a producer that was producing an outdoor drama in Ohio. I met Rusty Mudell director/producer. I agree to travel to Ohio and work on the outdoor drama production, “Tecumseh” for two weeks.  I thank Mr. Wasserman for considering me. So two weeks every June for ten years, I would travel back to Ohio and trained the stage actors in safety and block the stage combat scenes. Before I knew it, I was doing the same thing on other outdoor drama productions, Blue Jacket and Beyond the Sundown in Texas. I learn a lot in working with people. Working out at Paul Stader gym in Santa Monica allow me to meet many great stuntmen such as; Larry Holt, Dick Durrock,  Dale Park, Orrin Harvey, Michael Johnson, Chuck Water, Bob Minor and George Wilbur a “Member of the Stuntmen’s Association of Motion Pictures and Television.” George was stunt coordinator on a number of film productions at that time, plus years later, he would be Michael Myers in “Halloween 4 and 6.” George became a great friend of mine for the next thirty plus years. My first stunt coordinating job was a film that George gave to me. After that, I was working on many low budge films around Hollywood as a stuntman/stunt coordinator. I met Debra Hill, Dean Cundey, Ray Stella, Buck Flower and Don Behrn production manager on Don Edmond film “Bare Knuckles.” After that film Debra, Dean Cundey and Don Behrn and I work on a number of low budge films together. In 1978 I was working at Warner Bros Studio on “Police Story,” I got a called from my answering service “Teddy.”   I have Debra Hill on the phone, she said. Do you want to talk to her?  I took the call. Debra asks me if I could drive to Hollywood and work on John Carpenter and Debra Hill film, “Halloween” tonight. She said they had some problem with the guy that was going to do a backward fall over a railing. I told her I would, but my problem was that we were down town Los Angeles doing a car chase.  She told me that, they wouldn’t get to the shot until later that night. But, it would nice if I could get there earlier, to help out on some other scenes. I said okay, I will try. I quickly talk to the stunt coordinator about the called. He told me to go and talk to the 1st Assistant Director, about how long they would need the stuntmen's. The 1st Assistant Director wasn’t sure when we would be finishing up.  But he would try to release me early if possible. We finish the driving in recorder time and the director like what the stunt drivers did. "That a rap!" So, off I went to Hollywood, stopping by my house in Toluca Lake, picking up my porta-pit high fall pads. I arrive at the famous Michael Myers house around 7 PM and unload my porta-pit pads for the fall. I was call inside the house to watch various scenes that John Carpenter was shooting. Donald Pleasence [Dr Sam Loomis] came up to me and we talk about the stunt I was going to do and other things generally. I work with Jamie Lee Curtis [Laurie Strode] in her scene, where she flips over the stair railing to the stair case, so she wouldn’t get hurt. She did a great job. John Carpenter ask me to watch Tony Moran [Michael Myers] so we could over lap the scene when Donald Pleasence shoot Michael backward through the double porch window doors for the fall over the patio railing to the ground. The production company only had a few shooting days left. The distribution company was breezing down John Carpenter and Debra Hill necks, to get the film finish, so they could have a complete edited 35 mm print for screening to the foreign market buyers for the film release date that was coming up. The next film I work with John and Debra was “Fog.” It was the last film I did with John Carpenter. I was in New York working on a 20th Century Fox film, when I received a call from my answering service, telling me that “Debra Hill is looking for me.” I finally got a hold of Debra in her production office and she told me that Dick Warlock was going to be the stunt coordinator on John Carpenter and Debra Hill production of “Escape from New York.” Debra didn’t know Dick and wanted to know what kind of person he was. So I told her, he was a brother in “The Stuntmen's Association” and he was a good stuntman and that he been Kurt Russell stuntman for a many year’s, starting at Disney. Dick later would be the stunt coordinator and Michael Myers in “Halloween 2.” Between the years 1971 to 2004, I have worked on over 500 plus television shows and films. I have photo double and stunts double for many actors, such as; Barry Bostwich, David Hasselhoff, Peter O’Toole and many others. I have travel and work around the world from Europe to China in my forty plus year’s career. In 1996 I worked for an American/Chinese company on a special program in China for a year, teaching American film technique in stunt work and safety to the Chinese stuntmen. I also designed a “Miami Beach Action Boat Show” in Shanghai for American Dream Theme Park and trained the Chinese performers to perform that show on stage and in the water. In late 1997 I was hired by “Totally Fun Company” to redo Miralandia Theme Park live show in Ravenna Italy. I corrected the production problems and redirected the “Comedy Stunt Spectacular Special Effect Show.”  It began the number one show in Europe. But all the film productions, television productions and theme park shows, I have work on as an actor, stuntman, stunt coordinator, stage director, company manager, second unit director and directed of such independent films as “Evil Altar,” “Osceola 3351,” “Miami Beach Cops” and “Death Merchant.” John Carpenter and Debra Hill allow me to be the first Michael Myers in stunts as Nick Castle and Tony Moran was the first Michael Myers as actors (The Shape).  I never thought when I work “HALLOWEEN” that night, that it would be such a success and a horror film classic all these many years. I would always remember the friendship that Debra Hill and I had in those many years of yesterdays. I still work in the films and stage productions as an actor, stunt coordinator, stage director and I still double actors that I been doubling for over twenty years.  I consult on many low budget film productions across United States and in foreign countries. I give lectures at very Theater Art Colleges on subjects as such; stage to film, special effects and stunts, working within your film production budget and get every dollar on screen, how to audition to get a job, as a stage performer at theme parks.  I also started a school “The Academy for Theme Park Training and Stunt School in Mesa Arizona.” We offer special private and group classes for actors and actress that need to learn how to uses martial art and western punches for camera, horse work and other physical stunts. So, I keep pretty busy in the industry that I love from my child hood. They are many producers, directors, actors, stuntmen, stuntwomen, efx technicians and close friends that shape my life and my career. The list is unlimited. It’s been a great run. You can go to my web page, www.jamesbwinburn.com and see what is currently going on in Jim Winburn world of entertainment.                      Jim Winburn