Actor Raymond St. Jacques was born James Arthur Johnson in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1930, but he and younger sister Barbara were raised in Depression-era New Haven after their parents' divorce. He started writing and performing in his own short plays in elementary school and developed a strong interest in acting after appearing in a production of Othello. A stint with the Air Force in 1952 during the Korean War temporarily interrupted his professional momentum, but he managed to arrange pla ...[Read Story]