Jimmy Edwards

Jimmy Edwards

Acting 1920-03-23 Barnes, London, England, UK

From Wikipedia James Keith O'Neill "Jimmy" Edwards, DFC (23 March 1920 – 7 July 1988) was an English comedy writer and actor on radio and television, best known as Pa Glum in Take It From Here and as headmaster "Professor" James Edwards in Whack-O! Edwards was born in Barnes, London, (then Surrey), the son of a professor of mathematics. He was educated at St Paul's Cathedral School, at King's College School in Wimbledon and at St John's College, Cambridge. He served in the Royal Air Force during World War II, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross. In December 1958, Jimmy Edwards played the King in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella at the London Coliseum with Kenneth Williams, Tommy Steele, Yana and Betty Marsden Bobby Howell was the Musical Director. In April 1966, he played at the last night of Melbourne's Tivoli Theatre. Edwards frequently worked with Eric Sykes, acting in short films that Sykes wrote: The Plank (1967), which also starred Tommy Cooper; alongside Arthur Lowe and Ronnie Barker in the remake of The Plank in 1979; and in Rhubarb (1969), which again featured Sykes. The films were not silent but had no dialogue other than grunts. He also appeared in the The Bed Sitting Room (1969) as Nigel, a man who lives in a left luggage compartment after being mistaken for a suitcase.

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1982 Policeman
1979 Policeman
1978 Father
1977 Mr. Spettigue
1973 Sir Yellow
1972 Farmer Briggs
1972 Self
1970 PC Rhubarb
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1969 Nigel
1969 James Fossett
1968 Butcher
1968 Self
1967 Policeman
1967 Sir Jocelyn
1967 Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe
1961 Group Capt. Kingsley
1960 Professor Jim Edwards
1956 Harris
1956 Professor Jimmy Edwards
1953 Captain George Stilton
1953 Champ
1952 Sir Roderick Ryall/Hercules Ryall
1949 Dr. Edwards
1949 Jimmy Edwards