Jimmy Chipperfield
Two years later Jimmy suddenly broke away from the family circus and after a brief spell at farming and managing other shows, he and daughter Mary began providing animals for film work.
In the 1960s he started making a career in "drive-through" safari parks, such as Longleat and Woburn Abbey, both at home and abroad. According to his autobiography, "My Wild Life", he pioneered the entire idea and among his first groups of animals was the lions featured in Born Free.
Jimmy Chipperfield was a "victim" of the "This is Your Life" UK TV series This Is Your Life (UK TV series) and a photograph of him with Eamon Andrews is featured in the collage of photographs on the first edition dust jacket of his autobiography.
All four of the Chipperfield siblings, Dick, Jimmy, Marjorie and John who were responsible for the circus's greatest successes are now dead. Marjorie died 1975, John in 1978 and Jimmy in 1990.
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