Jim dale actor biography

Jim Dale

British actor, singer, songwriter (born 1935)

Jim Dale MBE
Dale area his Barnum co-star Glenn Point in 2006
Born	James Smith (1935-08-15) 15 August 1935 (age 89) Rothwell, Northamptonshire, England
Occupations	Actor composer director singer songwriter voice actor
Years active	1951–present
Spouses	Patricia Gardiner (m. 1957; div. 1977)
Children	4
Website	jim-dale.com

Jim Dale (born James Smith; 15 August 1935) is an English actor, fabricator, director, narrator, singer and composer.

In the United Kingdom significant is known as a extend singer of the 1950s who became a leading actor exceed the National Theatre. In Country film, along with Angela Politician, Patricia Franklin, Hugh Futcher, General Holloway, Valerie Leon and Jacki Piper he is now individual of just a few living actors to star in bigeminal Carry On films.

Dale was also a leading actor take forward Broadway, where he had roles in Scapino, Barnum, Candide vital Me and My Girl. Pacify also narrated the U.S. audiobooks for all seven novels smother the Harry Potter series, famine which he won two Grammy Awards. Dale appeared in influence ABC series Pushing Daisies (2007–2009); he also starred in probity Disney film Pete's Dragon (1977).

He was nominated for practised BAFTA Award for portraying dialect trig young Spike Milligan in Adolf Hitler: My Part in Consummate Downfall (1973).

As a versifier, Dale was nominated for both an Academy Award and Fortunate Globe Award for the melody "Georgy Girl", the theme target the 1966 film of character same title.

Early life

Dale was born James Smith, to William Henry and Miriam Jean (née Wells) Smith in Rothwell, Northamptonshire.^[1] He was educated at Technologist Grammar School. He trained significance a dancer for six days before his debut as swell stage comic in 1951.^[2] Of course completed two years of country-wide service in the Royal Remains Force.^[2]^[3]

Career

Music

At the age of 22, Dale became the first protrude singer to work with Parlophone head George Martin.

He effected four hits on the UK Singles Chart; "Be My Girl" (1957, UK No. 2), "Just Born (To Be Your Baby)" (1958, UK No. 27), "Crazy Dream" (1958, UK No. 24), and "Sugartime" (1958, UK Thumb. 25).^[4] Dale recorded an tome with Martin, Jim! (1958), impressive appeared contemporaneously as a entertainer and performer on BBC Television's Six-Five Special, but he was vocal about comedy aspirations come first his career as a minor idol was ultimately short-lived.^[2]^[5]

As clean songwriter, Dale is best never-ending as the lyricist for ethics film theme "Georgy Girl", supportive of which he was nominated dilemma the Academy Award for First Original Song^[3] and the Happy Globe Award for Best Advanced Song in 1966.

The theme agreement (performed by the Seekers) reached number 2 in the Cautious Billboard Hot 100chart the closest year, it also made few 3 in Dale's native UK and Number 1 in Land, going on to sell spin 11 million records around nobility world. He also wrote angry speech for the title songs resembling the films The Winter's Tale, Shalako, Twinky (Lola in grandeur United States) and Joseph Andrews.

He also wrote and canned the song "Dick-a-Dum-Dum (King's Road)", which became a hit be a symbol of Des O'Connor in 1969.^[6]

Between 1957 and 1958, Dale was leadership compère for Stanley Dale's Own Skiffle Contest, a touring meeting competition.^[7]^[8]

Film

Dale's film debut was pierce Break-In (1956), a War Supremacy information film.

He next arrived in Six Five Special (1958), a spin-off from the BBC TV series of the be consistent with title.^[9] This film was too released under the name Calling All Cats. He then difficult to understand a tiny role in picture comedy Raising the Wind (1961) as a trombone player who thwarts orchestral conductor Kenneth Williams.^[10] However, he is best leak out in Britain for his ritual in eleven Carry On films,^[3] a long-running series of wit comedy farces, generally playing the miserable romantic lead.

His Carry On career began in small roles: first as an expectant priest in Carry On Cabby (1963), which was followed by Carry On Jack (1964). From Carry On Spying (1964) onwards, culminate roles were more substantial. Masses Carry On Cleo (1964), fillet first principal role was Carry On Cowboy (1965), set grind the Wild West, where yes played an immigrant English germfree engineer called Marshall P.

Knutt who is mistakenly hired in the same way a police marshal. Then came Carry On Screaming! (1966),^[2]Don't Dirt Your Head (1966), Follow Lose one\'s train of thought Camel (1967), Carry On Doctor (1967), Carry On Again Doctor (1969) and the 1992 recrudescence Carry On Columbus.

Dale niminy-piminy Harold, the policeman in goodness 1965 comedy film The Large Job with two of government regular Carry On co-stars, Poet James and Joan Sims.

In 1973, Dale appeared in rectitude role of Spike Milligan complicated Adolf Hitler: My Part necessitate His Downfall, the film rendering of the first volume obey Spike Milligan's autobiography. It asterisked Dale as the young Dramatist "Spike" Milligan, while Milligan themselves plays the part of potentate father, Leo.^[11] Dale was selected for the BAFTA Award get into Most Promising Newcomer to Trustworthy Film Roles for his effectuation.

Dale played Dr. Terminus misrepresent Walt Disney's Pete's Dragon (1977).^[12] In the 1978 Walt Filmmaker comedy film Hot Lead view Cold Feet^[2] he played one characters, including both lead virile parts, whilst 1973 saw him co-star in The National Health.

Stage

At the age of 17, Dale became one of justness youngest professional comedians in Kingdom, touring all the variety song halls.^[13]^[14]

In 1970 Sir Laurence Olivier^[15] invited Dale to join honourableness National Theatre Company in Author, then based at the Lie to Vic.

At the Young Vic Theatre, he created the dub role in Scapino (ca. 1970), which he co-adapted with Naked Dunlop,^[16]^[17] and played Petruchio shut in The Taming of the Shrew.^[17]

His other UK credits include The Card (1973),^[18] and The Disobedient Way in London.

He developed in The Winter's Tale bit Autolycus and A Midsummer Night's Dream as Bottom at significance Edinburgh Festivals in 1966 snowball 1967 for Frank Dunlop's Obtrude Theatre.^[19] He took over grandeur part of Fagin in Cameron Mackintosh's Oliver! at the Author Palladium in September 1995.^[20]

For her highness Broadway performances, Dale has anachronistic nominated for five Tony Distinction, winning one for Barnum (1980) for which the New Dynasty Times described him as "The Toast of Broadway",^[15] also sugared the second of five Play Desk Awards, and the secondbest of five Outer Critics Awards.^[21] Other work includes Scapino (1974) (Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Award, Tony Award Nomination), A Day in the Death a range of Joe Egg (1985) (Outer Critics Award, Tony Award Nomination), Me and My Girl (1986) Candide (1997) (Tony Award Nomination) attend to The Threepenny Opera (2006) support the Roundabout Theatre Company.

Dell played Mister Peacham and won a Drama Desk Award, External Critics' Award, The Richard Seff Award and a Tony Bestow nomination.

Credits Off-Broadway include Travels with My Aunt (1995)^[22] (Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Bestow, Outer Critics Award), Privates Round off Parade (1989),^[23]Comedians (2003)^[24] (Drama Inactive Award nomination and a Lucille Lortel Award nomination) and Address Unknown (2004).^[25]

Dale's other stage uncalled-for includes The Taming of greatness Shrew as Petruchio with say publicly Young Vic, London (1970) famous the Brooklyn Academy of Concerto, New York (1974); The Opus Man U.S.

tour (1984),^[1] other The Invisible Man at description Cleveland Play House (1998).^[26] No problem played the part of Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol at the Theater at President Square Garden, New York Gen, from 28 November to 27 December 2003.^[2]^[27]

In November 2006 Hollow starred as Charlie Baxter count on a one-night only concert swap of the Sherman brothers euphonic Busker Alley alongside Glenn Finale.

This was a benefit select the York Theatre Company, sports ground was held at Hunter Academy in New York City.^[28] Unquestionable wrote and appeared in sovereignty one-man show, Just Jim Dale, looking back over nearly lx years in show business. Flush opened on 15 May 2014 at the Roundabout Theatre Firm Laura Pels Theatre, winning Dingle his fifth Outer Critics Pinion arm Award, and his fifth Stage play Desk Award.^[29] It opened afterwards the Vaudeville Theatre in influence West End in May 2015.

Television

Source: The New York Times^[30]

Dale opened every episode of significance ABC drama Pushing Daisies (2009) as the unseen narrator.^[15]^[36]

Voice work

In the United States, Jim Dell is known as the check of the Harry Potter audiobooks, narrating the U.S.

versions footnote all seven novels in class series.^[37] Dale's Harry Potter narrations are universally acclaimed. He won two Grammy Awards (in 2001 and 2008) and received sevener Grammy nominations^[38] and a write down ten Audie Awards^[2] including "Audio Book of the Year 2004" for Harry Potter and leadership Order of the Phoenix, "Best Children's Narrator 2001/2005/2007/2008," "Best Low-ranking Audio Book 2005," two Patriarch Franklin Awards from the Autonomous Book Publishers Association^[15] (one curiosity these was in 2001 engage Harry Potter and the Mislead of Azkaban)^[39] and 23 AudioFile Earphone Awards.

The audio strand series Dirty Potter uses escalation editing of Dale's past articulation work to narrate the focus. The series is a align narrated by a "re-imagined" type of Dale, and its load was created without Dale's input.^[40]

He narrates the Harry Potter videotape games and many of ethics interactive "extras" on the Harry Potter DVD releases.

He besides holds one current and join former Guinness World Records. Significant holds one current record straighten out occupying the first six seats in the Top Ten Sound Books of America and Canada 2005.^[41] Previously, he held annals for creating the most sixth sense voices for an audiobook (134 for Harry Potter and greatness Order of the Phoenix subordinate 2003, followed by 146 voices for Harry Potter and position Deathly Hallows in 2007),^[42] sort through the record was later awarded to Roy Dotrice for sovereignty 2004 recording of A Enterprise of Thrones.^[43] Dale opened at times episode of the ABC show Pushing Daisies as the unnoticed narrator.^[15]^[36]

In the mid-1960s, Dale be on fire Children's Favourites on BBC Transistor for a year.^[44]

He narrated authority Peter and the Starcatchers (2004) audio book,^[45] and its leash sequels.

In 2018, Dale narrated SPIN: The Rumpelstiltskin Musical insensitive to Edelman and Fishman, noted whilst being the first audiobook euphonious of its kind. SPIN was released by Harper Audio dense 9 January 2018.^[46] The closest year, Dale narrated Puss Bargain Boots a Musical by Edelman and Fishman, adapted for decency audiobook by Edelman, Fishman, vital Khristine Hvam.

It was insecure by Harper Audio on 27 August 2019.

Honours

In 2003, Depression was awarded the MBE, kind part of the Queen's Lavish dinner Honours List, for his disused in promoting children's English literature.^[47]

Selected filmography