Prolific and charismatic, charming and disarming, actor Jim Storm is probably best known as the mysterious Gerard Stiles from classic TV’s legendary gothic soap opera Dark Shadows.
Shadows, originally airing on ABC from 1966 to 1971, dramatized the lives and deaths of witches, warlocks, werewolves, specters, and vampires interpreted by a cast of respected actors including Jonathan Frid, Kathryn Leigh Scott, David Selby, Lara Parker, Grayson Hall, and countless others.
In its final season, the cult-classic was injected with a troika of new blood in the way of eclectic on-screen performers such as Kate Jackson, Virginia Vestoff, and Storm.
Years before Shadows, Storm made one of his earliest TV appearances with another daytime serial, aptly-titled, The Secret Storm.
From 1987 to 2009, Storm was Bill Spencer, Sr. on another afternoon soap, The Bold and the Beautiful, while his long list of credits also includes daytime dramas like The Doctors and One Life To Live, the latter on which he made his TV debut in the 1968-1969 season (as Dr. Larry Wolek).
Additional television appearances included guest-star stints on several prime-time series from the 1970s like Barnaby Jones, The Rockford Files, Police Woman, Kung Fu, and the short-lived small-screen edition of Planet of the Apes.
His TV-movies are The Healers (1974), and horror flicks like Trilogy of Terror and Scream of the Wolf, both directed by Shadows creator Dan Curtis (and written at least in part by Richard Matheson), while his feature film list includes everything from 1971’s Night of Dark Shadows to the more recent American Troubles (2015), Benjamin Ghandi (2016), and the upcoming 4/20 Massacre (directed by Dylan Reynolds).
A stage-trained actor, dancer, and mime, Storm is also musician (with a penchant for folk music), and recently stretched his artistic wings as a professional photographer.
Monsterama is very happy to welcome Jim to help us celebrate not only the 60th Anniversary of Dark Shadows, but the Centennial of Richard Matheson!
