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Jay J. Armes | |
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| Born | Julian Armas August 12, 1932 (age 91) |
| Occupation(s) | Private investigator, author, actor |
| Known for | Prosthetic hands |
| Spouse | Linda Chew |
| Children | 3 |
Jay J. Armes (born Julian Armas; August 12, 1932) is an American private investigator [1] and actor. He is known for his prosthetic hands and a line of children's action figures based on his image. [2]
Armes was born Julian Armas to Mexican-American parents Pedro and Beatriz in Ysleta, a low-income area near El Paso, Texas, now a southeast El Paso neighborhood. [3] His father was a grocer. [4] At the age of eleven, he and his friend Dick Caples, seven years his senior, broke into a Texas & Pacific Railroad section house and stole railway torpedoes. Armes rubbed two torpedo sticks together, [1] detonating them and causing the mangling of both hands. [3] [5] Caples, who was standing nearby, was not injured. Armes was taken to Hotel Dieu Hospital in El Paso, where his hands were amputated two inches above both wrists. [6] [4]
Armes went back to school four weeks after the surgery. Before he was fitted with prosthetics, he had a German Shepherd service dog named Butch. In school, he continued to play sports and learned to shoot a gun. He graduated from Ysleta High School at the age of fifteen. [4] [7] Armes earned his degrees in criminology and psychology from New York University through correspondence courses. [4] [7]
Armes had a contract to work with Twentieth Century Fox in Hollywood from 1949 to 1955. [7] While Armes claims to have appeared in 39 movies and 28 television shows, the only verifiable credit is an appearance in an episode of Hawaii Five-O . [8]
In 1956, he became the operations director of Goodwill Industries in El Paso, Texas. [7] In 1958, after briefly working as an actor in California and returning to his native El Paso, Armes started his private investigative agency, The Investigators. He worked with an assistant, James Cheu, and would visit El Paso area high schools to talk about their work. [9] During his time as an investigator, he was involved in a kidnapping case involving the son of Marlon Brando. [10] He collected around $25,000, plus expenses, for that case. [11] He was also allegedly involved in a jailbreak that later inspired the movie Breakout . [12]
Armes ran for office as Justice of Peace in Precinct 2 in El Paso in 1970, but did not make it past the primaries. [8] [13]
In 1978, he launched The Investigators Security Course. Designed as a mobile patrol and security service, this branch of the organization served the community for a number of years until the patrol division was discontinued. Armes has been a certified Peace Officer.[ citation needed ]
From 1989 to 1993, he served on the El Paso City Council. [14] He sought election to the council again in 2001, but was defeated and returned to his investigation business. [14]
In 1976, Armes published his autobiography, Jay J. Armes, Investigator; ISBN 0-02-503200-3. In 1976, the Ideal Toy Corp. also launched the Jay J. Armes Toy Line, which featured a Jay J. Armes action figure with detachable prosthetics, various gadgets, and a Mobile Investigation Unit.
In 1978, Armes and Ideal Toy Corp. launched an Investigative Course for Children which was introduced to a number of school districts throughout the United States. The same year, Armes authored a comprehensive correspondence-based investigative training course, and founded The Investigators Training Academy. [ citation needed ]
Armes played the villain in the Hawaii Five-O episode, "Hookman" (September 11, 1973). [15] The updated series, Hawaii Five-0 , remade the episode with the same scenes and title on February 4, 2013; Peter Weller remade the role and directed the episode. [16]
Armes' rescue of Marlon Brando's son was described on a season 7 episode of the Travel Channel show Mysteries at the Museum .
In the 1960s, Armes had a small private zoo in his home in the North Loop area. [17] [18] He raised German Shepherds, big cats and owned a chimpanzee. [9] Later permits allowed him to keep the dogs and chimpanzee, own a cheetah, cougar, tapir, and several monkeys. [19] Armes learned to drive, fly a jet plane and scuba dive. [20]
He and his wife, Linda Chew, had three children. [4] [21] In September 2020, Armes put his El Paso estate up for sale. [22]
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