Hint: he is the biological son of the sitcom mother of Ron Howard. Yes, Happy Days, and good for you and good for him as happy days there were.
Pleased to present Jim Meskimen, an exceptional man you probably know him from more places than I could count on the fingers of four hands. The truth is because Jim is so generously gifted with various talents, it is hard to list all the successes and places in which you have seen or heard him. Truth be told it is hard to see how he has time for it all. But he does, and he has time and ability to do it all like a real virtuoso.
Just to get first things first out of the way, he is the son of Marion Ross, whom you surely know as Marion Cunningham, Happy Days mother of Ritchie Cunningham (played by Ron Howard).
Jim is an actor in both major popular movies, well-loved television shows such as Friends, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, This is Us, SWAT, NCIS, Parks & Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, to name but a few and the list is too long to name more right here. He is the voice in video games you may well have played. He is also an impressionist with a long list of work as a voice actor in innumerable productions and also for the fun of it on his own many websites. He is, by formal training, an artist -having studied painting in Spain- who transitioned into cartooning, and yes, he is in high demand there, too. Oh, and improv in several companies.
He will be seen in 2022 in episodes of the series HUNTERS, Gaslit (with Sean Penn and Julia Roberts) and American Auto. He is also recurring in a new series, The Big Door Prize.
I invite you to the joy of hearing what Jim says about being the son of Marion Ross, how life changed or did not with success of Happy Days, and his connection to Ron Howard and the rest of the Happy Days cast. Sibling rivalry with Ritchie Cunningham? To see the twinkle in his eyes as he talks about his life, the gratitude, the happiness, his family both in fiction and fact, well, that is a lesson all its own on how to live life beautifully. Not that it was all easy either for him as an aspiring actor or for his mom as a single mother, but victory and joy prevailed step by step.
Love letters? Of course.
For the rest of it, all I can do here is to send you right over to the internet and read more about him because there is so much more. Just to help you out a bit and save you a little search time, Tons on TikTok, Jim Meskimen movies at IMDB , Impressions here at Jimpressions, Cartoons to start you off and for the rest of it you are on your gleeful own.