Jim Dale Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Jim Dale, MBE (born 15 August 1935), is an English-American actor, voice artist, and singer-songwriter. He is best known in the United Kingdom for his many appearances in the Carry On series of films and in the US for narrating the Harry Potter audiobook series, for which he received two Grammy Awards, and the ABC series Pushing Daisies. In the 1970s, Dale was a member of the National Theatre Company.
Full Name
Jim Dale
Net Worth
$1.4 Million
Date Of Birth
August 15, 1935
Place Of Birth
Rothwell, Northamptonshire, England, UK
Height
5ft 9in
Occupation
Actor, lyricist, singer, comedian, voice actor
Profession
Singer-songwriter, Lyricist, Comedian, Voice Actor, Film director, Disc jockey
Work Position
Awards for Jim Dale
Spouse
Julia Schafler, Patricia Dale
Children
Toby Dale, Belinda Dale, Murray Dale, Adam Dale
Parents
Miriam Jean Wells, William Henry Smith
Nicknames
Jim Dale, Dale, Jim
IMDB
Awards
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, Tony Award for Best Lead Actor in a Musical, Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children, Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical, Drama Desk Awa...
Nominations
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical, Academy Award for Best Original Song, Tony Award for Best Lead Actor in a Play, Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, BAFTA Award for Mos...
Movies
Carry On Again Doctor, Carry On Screaming!, Carry On Doctor, Carry On Cowboy, Pete's Dragon, Carry On Cleo, Carry On Columbus, Carry On Jack, Follow That Camel, Carry On Spying, Hot Lead and Cold Feet, Carry On Cabby, Don't Lose Your Head, Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World, Unidentified Flying Odd...
TV Shows
Pushing Daisies, Six-Five Special, Thank Your Lucky Stars, Join Jim Dale, Rogues' Gallery, Pet Pals
Star Sign
Leo
#
Quote
1
A career in the theatre demands so much commitment.
2
On 'Carry On' cast: I knew I was entering a clique. When we sat around talking that's when you relaxed with them. We would rehearse in each other's dressing room quite a bit, so that's where we got intimate. But I wasn't deep friends with any of them because I had to go home to see the kids rather than go out on the booze. I had no idea about the relationship that Sid (Sidney James) had with Barbara Windsor. Kenneth Williams was probably one of my better friends although he was a real sod at times.
3
The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.
4
We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved.
5
I feel if some kid has sat down and felt I'm important enough to write two pages of words to and take up a lot of his valuable time, then he deserves a few words back, or even a phone call as I have done on a few occasions.
6
There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom', only talent can keep you at the top.
7
I remember certain people in the audience laughing and I wanted to ask: 'What are you laughing at? This isn't funny.' Now I realize that laughter can come from insecurity. They don't know how they should be feeling.
8
You cannot learn anything from success, you only learn from failure.
9
You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage.
10
I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off.
11
I only travel to good material, a good director and a good company. I won't work in another country for a year any longer, because I have a lovely wife and I adore her and I can't bear to be away from her.
12
Good acting is consistency of performance.
13
I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.
14
I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.
15
It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you.
16
When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.
#
Fact
1
Also the father of Murray Dale child star of Boy Domminic 1974 And Domminic 1976.
Did his own stunts for Carry on Again Doctor (1969). These left him with back problems later in life. The slide down the stairs on a medicine trolley tore a muscle in his left arm, which had to be operated on in hospital. Regardless, he refused to get a stunt double for the hammock fall, despite Peter Rogers' huge concern.
4
He was offered the role of Jungle Boy in Carry on Up the Jungle (1970) which was originally titled 'Carry on Jungle Boy', but turned it down as the character had no dialogue. The role went to Terry Scott.
5
He wrote the lyrics to The Seekers' hit "Georgy Girl", which earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song.
6
Has continued his Harry Potter voice work with the audio book version of Book 6, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." [July 2005]
7
Providing the voice of the narrator on the new show, Pushing Daisies (2007). [October 2007]
8
Has continued his Harry Potter voice work with the audiobook version of Book 5, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" [June 2003]
9
Recording the seventh, and final, book in the "Harry Potter" series by J.K. Rowling - "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", due out July 21, 2007. [June 2007]
10
Playing "Mr Peachum" in the Broadway revival of The Threepenny Opera at Studio 54. [May 2006]
11
Won the 1980 Tony Award for Actor in a Musical for "Barnum". Nominated three times for the Tony Award (New York City) for Actor in a Drama: "Scapino" in 1975, "Joe Egg" in 1985 and "Candide" in 1997. Nominated for the 2006 Tony Award for Supporting or Features Actor in a Musical for "Three Penny Opera".
12
Now aged 69, he provides the US narration of the Harry Potter series of audiobooks. [2005]
He was awarded the M.B.E. (Member of the order of the British Empire) in the 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to British Children's Literature in America.
16
He was considered for the role of the Doctor in the popular BBC series Doctor Who (1963), after the departure of Jon Pertwee in 1974.
Performs the unabridged Harry Potter audio books and is cited twice in the Guinness Book of World Records for creating the most character voices in an audiobook (more than 200) and for voicing the first six "Top Ten" selling audiobooks of all time. He also has won a record nine "Audie" awards.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Ooh La La!
1968
TV Series
Carry on Doctor
1967
Dr. Jim Kilmore
The Plank
1967
House Painter
Carry on in the Legion
1967
Bertram Oliphant 'Bo' West
The Winter's Tale
1967
Autolycus
Mister Misfit
1967
TV Movie
Jim Didsbury
Carry on Pimpernel
1966
Lord Darcy Pue
Carry on Screaming!
1966
Albert Potter
Carry on Cowboy
1965
Marshal P. Knutt
The Big Job
1965
Harold
Pet Pals
1965
TV Movie
Carry on Cleo
1964
Horsa
Carry on Spying
1964
Carstairs
Carry on Jack
1964
Young Carrier
Carry on Cabby
1963
Jeremy - Expectant Father
Nurse on Wheels
1963
Tim Taylor
The Swingin' Maiden
1962
Thompson's Salesman Bill
Roommates
1961
Bass Trombone (Phil)
Harry Potter: Wizarding World
2009
Video Game
Narrator
Pushing Daisies
2007-2009
TV Series
Narrator
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Challenge
2007
Video Game
Narrator (voice)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002
Video Game
Narrator (US version) (voice)
Cosby
1997
TV Series
Gregory
The Hunchback
1997
TV Movie
Clopin
The Poetry Hall of Fame
1993
TV Movie
The American Clock
1993
TV Movie
Ted Quinn
Lincoln
1992
TV Movie
Baltimore Correspondent (voice)
Carry on Columbus
1992
Christopher Columbus
The Ellen Burstyn Show
1986
TV Series
Robert Alan Waits
American Playhouse
1986
TV Series
The Duke
The Equalizer
1985
TV Series
Gilbert
Scandalous
1984
Inspector Anthony Crisp
Unidentified Flying Oddball
1979
Sir Mordred
The Dancing Princesses
1978/II
TV Movie
Soldier
Hot Lead and Cold Feet
1978
Eli Bloodshy / Wild Billy Bloodshy / Jasper Bloodshy
Pete's Dragon
1977
Dr. Terminus
Joseph Andrews
1977
The pedlar
Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World
1973
Jeff Eldon
The National Health
1973
Barnet
Dr. Neil Boyd
Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall
1973
Spike Milligan
Jackanory
1970
TV Series
Storyteller
Carry on Again Doctor
1969
Doctor Jimmy Nookey
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
TV Series
Lucifer Kane
Rogues' Gallery
1969
TV Series
Lucifer Kane
Lock Up Your Daughters!
1969
Lusty
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Upper Middle Bogan
2016
TV Series writer - 1 episode
A Few Best Men
2011
writer: "Georgy Girl"
Pirate Radio
2009
lyrics: "Georgy Girl" 1966
9 Dead Gay Guys
2002
King's Road", writer: "Dick-A-Dum-Dum
The Simpsons
1992-2002
TV Series lyrics - 2 episodes
The 51st Annual Tony Awards
1997
TV Special performer: "Bon Voyage"
British Men Behaving Badly
1996
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Get a Life
1991
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Brides of Christ
1991
TV Mini-Series lyrics: "Georgy Girl"
Gardens of Stone
1987
writer: "Georgy Girl"
The 39th Annual Tony Awards
1985
TV Special performer: "Bye Bye Baby", "Join the Circus"
The 34th Annual Tony Awards
1980
TV Special performer: "There Is a Sucker Born Ev'ry Minute"
Hot Lead and Cold Feet
1978
performer: "Something Good Is Bound to Happen"
Pete's Dragon
1977
performer: "Passamashloddy", "Every Little Piece" - uncredited
Joseph Andrews
1977
performer: " He Was Such a Gentle Boy"
Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall
1973
performer: "It's Gonna Be a Good War"
Lola
1970
performer: "Lola", "The Lonely Year", "Go Where The Sky Goes" / writer: "Lola", "The Lonely Year", "Go Where The Sky Goes"
Shalako
1968
lyrics: "Shalako"
The 39th Annual Academy Awards
1967
TV Special lyrics: "Georgy Girl"
Georgy Girl
1966
lyrics: "Georgy Girl"
The Big Job
1965
performer: "Policeman's Song" - uncredited
Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life
1965
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Tread Softly Stranger
1958
performer: "Tread Softly Stranger"
Six-Five Special
1958
performer: "Sugartime", "The Train Kept A-Rolling"
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Join Jim Dale
TV Series 4 episodes, 1969 script - 2 episodes, 1969
Composer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Winter's Tale
1967
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Loose Women
2015
TV Series
Himself
Saturday Kitchen
2015
TV Series
Himself
The Paul O'Grady Show
2015
TV Series
Himself
The One Show
2015
TV Series
Himself
Carry on Forever
2015
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself - Carried On 1963-1992 / Himself - Carry on Cabby
Arena
2013
TV Series documentary
Himself
Greatest Ever Carry On Films
2011
TV Movie documentary
Himself
The 2011 Annual American Theatre Wing Gala
2011
TV Movie
Himself
Bloomberg Game Changers
2011
TV Series documentary
Himself - Voice Actor, Harry Potter Series
Variety Club Showbiz Awards 2010
2010
TV Special
Himself
The Byron Janis Story
2010
TV Movie documentary
Narrated by (voice)
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers' Story
2009
Documentary
Himself
50 Greatest Comedy Catchphrases
2008
TV Movie documentary
Himself
British Film Forever
2007
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
The 60th Annual Tony Awards
2006
TV Special
Himself - Presenter: The Threepenny Opera & Nominee: Best Featured Actor in a Musical
The 50 Greatest Comedy Films
2006
TV Movie documentary
Himself
The 100 Greatest Family Films
2005
TV Movie documentary
Himself
After They Were Famous
2005
TV Series documentary
Himself
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
2003
TV Special
Himself
What's a Carry On?
1998
TV Movie documentary
Himself - Interviewee / Various Characters
Working in the Theatre
1985-1998
TV Series documentary
Himself / Himself - moderator
The 51st Annual Tony Awards
1997
TV Special
Himself - Performer & Nominee: Best Leading Actor in a Musical
The 49th Annual Tony Awards
1995
TV Special
Himself - Presenter: Best Featured Actress in a Play
Live from the London Palladium: Happy Birthday, Happy New Year!
1990
TV Movie
Himself
The 42nd Annual Tony Awards
1988
TV Special
Himself - Presenter: Best Featured Actress in a Musical
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus 116th Edition
1986
TV Movie
Himself - Host
The 39th Annual Tony Awards
1985
TV Special
Himself - Presenter, Performer & Nominee: Best Actor in a Play
The 34th Annual Tony Awards
1980
TV Special
Himself - Performer & Winner: Best Actor in a Musical
Clapper Board
1979
TV Series
Himself
Tell Me Another
1976
TV Series
Himself
Dinah!
1975
TV Series
Himself
The 29th Annual Tony Awards
1975
TV Special
Himself
This Is Your Life
1973
TV Series documentary
Himself
Sunday Night at the London Palladium
1973
TV Series
Himself - Host
Join Jim Dale
1969
TV Series
Himself
Des O'Connor on Stage
1969
TV Series
Himself
Once More with Felix
1968-1969
TV Series
Himself
The Val Doonican Show
1968
TV Series
Himself
Dee Time
1967
TV Series
Himself
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1962-1966
TV Series
Himself - Host / Himself
The New London Palladium Show
1965
TV Series
Himself
The Sunday Break
1958-1961
TV Series
Himself - Performer
Summerhouse
1960-1961
TV Series
Himself
Spectacular
1959
TV Series
Himself
Six-Five Special
1957-1958
TV Series
Himself - Presenter / Himself
The Children's Television Caravan
1958
TV Series
Himself
Six-Five Special
1958
Himself
Off the Record
1958
TV Series
Himself - Performer
Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium
1957
TV Series
Himself
Archive Footage
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2008
Grammy
Grammy Awards
Best Spoken Word Album for Children
2001
Grammy
Grammy Awards
Best Spoken Word Album For Children
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2007
Grammy
Grammy Awards
Best Spoken Word Album for Children
For the album "Peter Pan".
2006
Grammy
Grammy Awards
Best Spoken Word Album for Children
For the album "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince".
2004
Grammy
Grammy Awards
Best Spoken Word Album for Children
For the album "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix".
2000
Grammy
Grammy Awards
Best Spoken Word Album For Children
1974
BAFTA Film Award
BAFTA Awards
Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles
Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1973)
1967
Oscar
Academy Awards, USA
Best Music, Original Song
Georgy Girl (1966)
1967
Golden Globe
Golden Globes, USA
Best Original Song
Georgy Girl (1966)
1967
Golden Laurel
Laurel Awards
Song
Georgy Girl (1966)
Known for movies
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1962-1966) as Himself - Host / Himself
Six-Five Special (1957-1958) as Himself - Presenter / Himself