Jim - Effects Monkey

Jim's origins are largely unknown, at the age of four he was stolen from his family by travelling circus performers and forced to work as a human cannonball and performing midget. Jim escaped the circus at the age of fifteen and jumped a tramp steamer to Marrakesh where he pursued a carreer as a porn star for several years before suddenly dissapearing along with a the budget of the unmade movie. He resurfaced in 1996 when he was arrested for piracy off the coast of Belize but almost immediatly dissappeared again in a spectacular jailbreak supposedly organised by the Khazakstani mafia.

In 1997 he appeared Tokoyama, Japan where he took part in a daring diamond robbery. In June 1998 he reportedly swindled an American tourist out of four million dollars after agreeing to sell the unfortunate man the Faero islands. In October that year Interpol simultaneously had information suggesting he was working as a fisherman in Murmansk and as a security guard for an emerald mine in Angola but despite dispatching agents to both locations no evidence of him was found. In 2000 he was discovered selling time-shares in Lisbon and was succesfully arrested and returned to Morroco where he was reportedly murdered while awaiting to stand trial.

Jim resurfaced in North London in early 2003 where he turned up unannounced at the innaugural Too Many Monkeys script meeting wielding a machette and demanded to be included. Investigations by the authorities are ongoing.