Jim Bray was a competitive artistic roller skater

Artistic roller skating

Artistic roller skating is a sport similar to figure skating but where constestants run on roller skates instead of ice skates. Within artistic roller skating there are several disciplines:* figures...

. He won several national titles in Singles and Pairs. At the age of 18 he gave up his amateur status to star in the roller disco movie Roller Boogie

Roller Boogie

Roller Boogie is a United Artists film starring Linda Blair and introducing Jim Bray The film also stars Beverly Garland, Mark Goddard, and Kimberly Beck, and is directed by Mark L...

starring Linda Blair

Linda Blair

Linda Denise Blair is an American actress. Blair is best known for her role as the possessed child, Regan, in the 1973 film The Exorcist, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award and two Golden Globes, winning one. She reprised her role in 1977's Exorcist II: The Heretic.-Biography:Blair...

. This would be his only film appearance. Because of the film, he became a poster boy for teen magazines like 16 Magazine

16 magazine

16 Magazine was a fan magazine based out of New York City. It was the first magazine marketed to adolescents that focused exclusively on celebrities...

, Teen Beat

Teen Beat

Teen Beat was an American magazine geared towards teenaged readers.First published in August 1976, the magazine was preceded by sister publications 16 Magazine, published in 1956, and Tiger Beat, which was first published in 1965...

, Teen Bag, Tiger Beat as well as more mainstream fare like People

People (magazine)

In 1998, the magazine introduced a version targeted at teens called Teen People. However, on July 27, 2006, the company announced it would shut down publication of Teen People immediately. The last issue to be released was scheduled for September 2006. Subscribers to this magazine received...

 and Gossip. Later Bray made an appearance in the 1980 TV variety program The Big Show

The Big Show (TV series)

The Big Show is an American comedy-variety-musical television series produced and broadcast by NBC for several months in 1980.The series aimed to revitalize the moribund variety television genre, which had been in a downward spiral since the cancellations of the Ed Sullivan Show and The Carol...

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Jim Bray's National Competitive Record

Year	Event	Placement	Partner
1969	Juvenile B Boys Singles	2	n/a
1970	Juvenile Pairs	4	Robin Miller
1971	Juvenile Boys Singles	8	n/a
1971	Juvenile Pairs	1	Robin Miller
1972	Elementary Boys Figures	8	n/a
1972	Elementary Boys Singles	1	n/a
1972	Elementary Pairs	1	Robin Miller
1973	Elementary Boys Figures	11	n/a
1973	Elementary Boys Singles	1	n/a
1973	Elementary Pairs	2	Robin Miller
1974	Freshman Boys Figures	16	n/a
1974	Freshman Boys Singles	1	n/a
1974	Freshman Pairs	9	Melinda McCoy
1974	International Freshman Men's Figures	12	n/a
1975	Junior Men's Singles	1	n/a
1977	Senior Men's Singles	2	n/a
1978	Senior Men's Singles	3	n/a

External links

• Jim Bray Appreciation Pages - Unofficial Fan Site