Jim Dale MBE (born James Smith on August 15, 1935) is an English actor, singer, and songwriter who is best known for his roles in the Carry On films. He was born in Rothwell, Northamptonshire. Image File history File links DaleClose. ... Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is a five time Academy Award-nominated American film and stage actress. ... Busker Alley was a musical by the Sherman Brothers, who wrote the scores to some of the Disney movies like Mary Poppins and The Jungle Book. ... The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions; in decreasing order of seniority, these are Knight Grand Cross or Dame Grand Cross (GBE) Knight Commander... August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Queen Queen Elizabeth II  -  Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification  -  by Athelstan 967  Area... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... Ercole de Roberti: Concert, c. ... A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ... The Carry On films were a long-running series of British low-budget comedy films, directed by Gerald Thomas and produced by Peter Rogers. ... Rothwell is a market town in Northamptonshire. ... Northamptonshire (abbreviated Northants or Nhants) is a landlocked county in central England with a population of 629,676 (2001 census). ...

Career

Music career

As a songwriter Dale is best remembered as the lyricist for the movie theme Georgy Girl, which was nominated for an Academy Award in 1966. The song (performed by The Seekers) reached number 2 in the US charts the following year. Several of his songs entered the UK singles chart including Be My Girl (1957)(UK # 2in 1957), Just Born (1958), Crazy Dream (1958) and Sugartime (1958). As a singer he became the first artist under the wing of Sir George Martin who produced many hit records for him. Dale also wrote the song Dick-a-Dum-Dum (King's Road), which became a minor hit for Des O'Connor in 1969. Georgy Girl is a 1966 British film, based on a novel by Margaret Forster. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... The Seekers were a group of Australian folk-influenced popular musicians which was formed in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in 1962. ... Sir George Leonard Martin KBE (born 3 January 1926 in Highbury, London, England) is sometimes referred to as the fifth Beatle, a title that he owes to his work as producer of almost all of the Beatles records. ... Desmond Bernard OConnor is a British entertainer, born January 12th, 1932 in Stepney, London. ...

Film career

Dale appeared in eleven of the Carry On films, generally playing the romantic lead. His last appearance in the main series was in Carry On Again Doctor in 1969, however 23 years later he appeared in the title role in Carry on Columbus. He was in the noted silent short film The Plank, and played the young Spike Milligan in the film version of Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall. He appeared in Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World, which also featured Milligan. He had success as a comic villain in the Disney films Pete's Dragon and The Spaceman and King Arthur aka Unidentifed Flying Oddball. The Carry On films were a long-running series of British low-budget comedy films, directed by Gerald Thomas and produced by Peter Rogers. ... Carry On Again Doctor is the eighteenth Carry On film. ... For the Stargate SG-1 episode, see 1969 (Stargate SG-1). ... Carry On Columbus was a 1992 film, and the most recent in the Carry On films series. ... The Plank is a popular 45-minute, 1967 British slapstick comedy film. ... Terence Alan Milligan, KBE, (16 April 1918–27 February 2002), known as Spike Milligan, was an Irish writer, artist, musician, humanitarian, comedian, and poet. ... Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World is a 1973 British childrens film starring Jim Dale, and directed by Joseph McGrath. ... Walt Disney Pictures logo (2006-present) Walt Disney Pictures refers to several different entities associated with The Walt Disney Company: // Walt Disney Pictures, the film banner, was established as a designation in 1983, prior to which Disney films since the death of Walt Disney were released under the name of... Promotional poster for the theatrical release of Petes Dragon. ...

Stage career

At the age of eighteen Dale became the youngest professional comedian in Britain, touring all the great Variety Music Halls. On stage he appeared in both straight and musical roles, and has been nominated for four Tony Awards, winning one for Barnum. In 2006, Dale performed on Broadway (at Studio 54) in the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of The Threepenny Opera, as Mr. Peachum. He became “The Toast of Broadway” (N.Y.Times), when he created the flamboyant title role in the now world famous Cy Coleman musical Barnum winning him the Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award. What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ... Original cast recording Barnum is a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical with book by Mark Bramble, lyrics by Michael Stewart, and music by Cy Coleman. ... Broadway theatre[1] is the most prestigious form of professional theatre in the U.S., as well as the most well known to the general public and most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows. ... The original Studio 54 logo. ... The Roundabout Theatre Company is a non-profit, subscription based theatre company, based in New York City. ... Die Dreigroschenoper, original German poster from Berlin, 1928. ...

In 1970, at the request of Laurence Olivier, he joined the British National Theatre as a leading actor. Over the next two years he appeared in Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Merchant of Venice, The National Health, The Good Natured Man, The Captain of Kopenick, and a two hander play with Anthony Hopkins, The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria. At the Young Vic Theatre, he created the title role in Scapino, which he co-adapted with Frank Dunlop, and played Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew. His other West End theatre credits include The Wayward Way, The Card, A Midsummer Nights Dream, The Winters Tale, and most recently the part of Fagin in Cameron Mackintosh’s Oliver! at the London Palladium. Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907–11 July 1989) was an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and four-time Emmy winning English actor, director, and producer. ... Title page of the first quarto (1600) The Merchant of Venice is one of William Shakespeares best-known plays, written sometime between 1596 and 1598. ... The National Health is a play by Peter Nichols. ... Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE (IPA: ) (born 31 December 1937) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning Welsh film, stage and television actor. ... The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria is a play by Fernando Arrabal. ... The Young Vic is a theatre in the South Bank area of central London, which specialises in giving opportunities to young actors and directors. ... Frank Dunlop, (born October 9, 1947 in County Kilkenny, Ireland is for former broadcast journalist with RTE serving in Dublin and Belfast. ... Taming of the Shrew by Augustus Egg The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare. ... // West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre in London, or sometimes more specifically for shows staged in the large theatres of Londons Theatreland . Along with New Yorks Broadway Theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of theatre in the... The Card is a musical with a book by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall and music and lyrics by Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent. ... A Midsummer Nights Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare. ... Fagin is a fictional character in the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist. ... Sir Cameron Mackintosh (born 17 October 1946 in Enfield) is a successful British theatrical producer. ... Oliver! is a British musical, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. ... The London Palladium in 2004 The London Palladium is one of the most famous of Londons West End theatres. ...

His Broadway successes include Scapino (Drama Desk Award/Outer Critics Award/Tony Award Nomination), Joe Egg (Outer Critics Award /Tony Award Nomination). Me And My Girl and Candide (Tony Award Nomination). Other credits Off-Broadway include Travels With My Aunt (Drama Desk Award / Lucille Lortel Award / Outer Critics Award), Privates On Parade, The Taming of the Shrew, The Invisible Man, The Music Man, Comedians (Drama Desk Award nomination and a Lucille Lortel Award nomination), A Christmas Carol – The Musical, Address Unknown and Three Penny Opera (Drama Desk Award / Outer Critics Award / The Rchard Seff Award and a Tony Award nomination). In November, 2006 Dale starred as "Charlie Baxter" in the Sherman Brothers' musical, Busker Alley alongside Glenn Close. Me and My Girl is a popular British stage musical, with book and lyrics by Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose and music by Noel Gay. ... Candide, ou lOptimisme, (Candide, or Optimism) (1759) is a French language picaresque novel by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire. ... Travels with My Aunt (1969) is a novel written by British author Graham Greene. ... Taming of the Shrew by Augustus Egg The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare. ... See Invisible Man for the novel by Ralph Ellison. ... This article is about the Broadway musical. ... A comedian (also comedienne, female) is a person who attempts to make people laugh through a variety of methods, normally through joke telling. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) was a revolutionary piece of musical theatre written (in German) by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht in collaboration with the composer Kurt Weill in 1928. ... Look up November in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Robert B. Sherman & Richard M. Sherman at the London Palladium in 2002 during the premiere of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Stage Musical. ... Busker Alley was a musical by the Sherman Brothers, who wrote the scores to some of the Disney movies like Mary Poppins and The Jungle Book. ... Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is a five time Academy Award-nominated American film and stage actress. ...

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Voice work

To millions of children in the United States Jim Dale is the voice of Harry Potter. He has recorded all six books in the Harry Potter series, and as a narrator he has won the Grammy Award 2000, four Grammy Nominations, seven Audie Awards including “Audio Book of the Year 2004”, “Best Narrator 2004/2005/ 2006,” “Best Children’s Audio Book 2005,” two Benjamin Franklin Awards and seven Audio File Earphone Awards. He also holds two Guinness World Records: one for having created and recorded 134 different character voices for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and one for occupying the first six places in the Top Ten Audio Books of America 2005. Jim Dale's counterpart in the audiobook series of Harry Potter in audiobook format in the United Kingdom is Stephen Fry. This article is about the Harry Potter series of novels. ... Guinness World Records 2007 edition front cover. ... This article is about the book. ... This article or section cites very few or no references or sources. ...

Personal life

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He has lived in New York since 1980. He was married to Patricia from 1957 until their divorce in 1977. They had 4 children, one of whom, Murray Dale, was briefly an actor in the 1970s children's television series Boy Dominic. In 1980, he married Julia Schafler, the owner of Madison Avenue’s prestigious “Julie: Artisan’s Gallery." New York, NY redirects here. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979. ... Madison Avenue is a north-south avenue in the borough of Manhattan in New York City which carries northbound one-way traffic. ...

External links

• Jim Dale at the Internet Movie Database
• Jim Dale's Home Page (includes a list of television and film appearances, composition credits, and audiobook recordings)
• Jim Dale at Carry On Online