Jimmy Edwards
Actor
Biography
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.
Filmography
The Plank
as Policeman 1967
Innocents in Paris
as Captain George Stilton 1953
The Plank
as Policeman 1979
Three Men in a Boat
as Harris 1956
Bottoms Up!
as Professor Jim Edwards 1960
Treasure Hunt
as Sir Roderick Ryall/Hercules Ryall 1952
It's Your Move
as Policeman 1982
Rhubarb Rhubarb
1980
Mr. H Is Late
1988
Rhubarb
as PC Rhubarb 1970
Helter Skelter
as Dr. Edwards 1949
Nearly a Nasty Accident
as Group Capt. Kingsley 1961
A Ghost of a Chance
as Sir Jocelyn 1967
Lionheart
as Butcher 1968
Murder at the Windmill
as Jimmy Edwards 1949
Anoop and the Elephant
as Farmer Briggs 1972