Dale with his Barnum co-star Glenn Close performing in Busker Alley in 2006
Born
James Smith
(1935-08-15) 15 August 1935 (age 88)
Rothwell, Northamptonshire, England
Occupations
Actor
composer
director
singer
songwriter
voice actor
Years active
1951–present
Spouses
Patricia Gardiner
(m. 1957; div. 1977)
Julie Schafler
(m. 1981)
Children
4
Website
jim-dale.com
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Jim DaleMBE (born James Smith; 15 August 1935) is a British actor, composer, director, narrator, singer and songwriter. In the United Kingdom he is known as a pop singer of the 1950s who became a leading actor at the National Theatre. In British film, along with Angela Douglas he is now one of the last two surviving actors to star in multiple Carry On films.
Dale was also a leading actor on Broadway, where he had roles in Scapino, Barnum, Candide and Me and My Girl. He also narrated the U.S. audiobooks for all seven novels in the Harry Potter series, for which he won two Grammy Awards. Dale appeared in the ABC series Pushing Daisies (2007–2009); he also starred in the Disney film Pete's Dragon (1977). He was nominated for a BAFTA Award for portraying a young Spike Milligan in Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1973).
As a lyricist, Dale was nominated for both an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for the song "Georgy Girl", the theme for the 1966 film of the same title.
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age 27. Dale subsequently moved to Australia, where he played Dr. John Forrest in The Young Doctors from 1979 to 1982. He later appeared as Jim Robinson...
hardcover fiction list. An audiobook version of The Night Circus is read by JimDale. The UK publisher, Harvill Secker, contracted Failbetter Games, creators...
The cast also includes Ellen Greene, Swoosie Kurtz and Field Cate, with JimDale acting as narrator. Touted as a "forensic fairy tale", the series is known...
film series and stars alongside regulars Sid James, Kenneth Williams, JimDale, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Peter Butterworth, and Bernard Bresslaw. Hattie...
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for his starring roles on television. He played the roving investigator Jim Hardie in the television series Tales of Wells Fargo and railroad owner Ben...
house on Maida Avenue. The title song, written by Tom Springfield and JimDale, was recorded by Australian band The Seekers. A single release of the song...
JimDale With Alyn Ainsworth And His Orchestra* – Winnie The Pooh / Teddy Bears' Picnic". Discogs. Retrieved 5 September 2023. "Kenneth Connor, Jim Dale...
Regulars Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, and JimDale are present and Connor made his last appearance until his return in Carry...
American comedy-Western film produced by Walt Disney Productions and starring JimDale (in triple roles), Karen Valentine, Don Knotts, Jack Elam and Darren McGavin...
Columbus: The Discovery came out the same year). Christopher Columbus (JimDale) believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades...
wins in this category, with a total of three. Artists Bill Harley and JimDale, along with audio engineer David Correia, and producers Arnold Cardillo...
co-presented the 1977 Carry On compilation That's Carry On!. Along with JimDale, she was one of the last surviving regulars on the series. Her other film...
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