James Haworth Aye Jr. was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1907. He was the son of Emma Bischoff and James H. Aye, an attorney. His family moved to Los Angeles in 1911. Jimmy worked as an actor and writer in Hollywood. He had bit parts in the films My Man Godfrey and Marked Woman. His older sister was stage and screen actress Marion Aye. In May of 1935 Jimmy married actress Edna Waldron. This was his second marriage. Edna and Jimmy were divorced in 1938. The couple reconciled in 1940 when they worked together on the movie Brother Orchid. Jimmy and Edna were planning to remarry when she tragically died in a fire in August of 1940. Jimmy married Virginia McCarty in 1943. In February of 1951 his mother Emma died. Five months later his sister Marion Aye committed suicide at the age of forty-eight. Jimmy passed away in January of 1979 at age of seventy-one.