While Armes claims to have appeared in 39 movies and 28 television shows, the only verifiable appearance is an episode of Hawaii Five-O. Career Īrmes had a contract to work with Twentieth Century Fox in Hollywood from 1949 to 1955. Armes earned his degrees in criminology and psychology from New York University through correspondence courses. Armes graduated Ysleta High School at the age of fifteen. In school, he continued to play sports and learned to shoot a gun. Before he was fitted with prosthetics, he had a German Shepherd service dog named Butch. Īrmes went back to school four weeks after the surgery. Armes was taken to Hotel Dieu Hospital in El Paso, where his hands were amputated two inches above both wrists. Caples, who was standing nearby, was not injured. Armes rubbed two torpedo sticks together, detonating them and causing the mangling of both hands. At the age of eleven, he and his friend Dick Caples, seven years his senior, broke into a Texas & Pacific Railroad section house and stole railway torpedoes. Early life and education Īrmes was born Julian Armas to Mexican-American parents Pedro and Beatriz in Ysleta, a low-income area near El Paso, Texas, now a southeast El Paso neighborhood. He is known for his prosthetic hands and a line of children's action figures based on his image. Armes (born Julian Armas August 12, 1932) is an American private investigator and actor.
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