Dale, Jim
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Website: http://www.jim-dale.com
Real Name/Full Name: James Smith
Born On: August 15 1935
Genres: Vocal
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Highest Place In Charts (Singles): 2
Total Weeks In Charts (Singles): 22
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Biography
In brief
Jim became "The Toast of Broadway" [NY Times 1981] when he created the flamboyant title role in the now world famous Cy Coleman musical "Barnum", (Tony Award and Drama Desk Award )
He started training for his career at the age of nine. For six years he studied tap dancing, judo, National dancing, ballet and tumbling. During these years he performed in many amateur shows and started to include comedy in his act.
At the age of seventeen he became the youngest professional comedian in Great Britain, touring all the famous Variety Music Halls.
He joined the Royal Air Force at the age of eighteen and spent the next two years entertaining troops in England and Germany.
At the age of 22, he became the first recording artist under the wing of the now legendary Sir George Martin, who produced many hit records for him over the next two years. He first appeared in, then hosted the top pop music show on BBC television, "6-5 Special."
He was invited to join BBC radio as a disc jockey, and hosted their number one program for children, "Saturday Morning Children's Requests" for over a year.
In 1966 he was asked to play the clown Autolycus in Shakespeare's, "The Winter's Tale" at the Edinburgh Festival. The next year he played Bottom in "A Midsummer Nights Dream" and the title role in "Scapino"
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", "Sancho", "The Captain of Kopenick", and a two hander play with Anthony Hopkins, "The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria".
At the Young Vic, he re-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 Burglar", "The Wayward Way", "The Card", "A Midsummer Nights Dream", "The Merchant of Venice", "A Winters' Tale", and most recently, the part of Fagin in Cameron Mackintosh’s "Oliver!" at the London Palladium.
In 1973 Jim made his Broadway debut in the smash hit, "Scapino" (Drama Desk Award/ Outer Critics Award / Tony nomination). Other credits on and Off-Broadway include, "Joe Egg", (Outer Critics Award / Tony nomination). "Travels With My Aunt", (Drama Desk Award / Outer Critics Award / Lucille Lortel Award) "Candide" (Tony Nomination), "The Comedians", (Lucille Lortel Nomination) "The Invisible Man", "Privates On Parade", "The Taming of the Shrew", "Me And My Girl" , "A Christmas Carol - The Musical", "The Music Man", "The Oak Tree", "Busker Alley", "The Faith Healer", "Don Juan in Hell", "Address Unknown" and the "Three Penny Opera". (Drama Desk Award / Outer Critics Circle Award / The Richard Seff Award / Drama League Award and a Tony Nomination)
Television Huckleberry Finn for PBS, "The American Clock" by Arthur Miller, "The Bill Cosby Show", "The Ellen Burstyn Show", "The Dinah Shore Show", "Sunday Night at the London Palladium" (Host), "Six Five Special" (Host), "Thank Your Lucky Stars" (Host), "Meet Jim Dale" and "The Jim Dale Show" for ATV London. October 2007, Narrator of "Pushing Daisies" ABC TV.
Films "The National Health", "Joseph Andrews", "The Spaceman and King Arthur", "Hot Lead-Cold Feet", "Pete’s Dragon", "Adolf Hitler - My Part in His Downfall", "Lock Up Your Daughters", "Scandalous", "The Winters Tale", "Digby", "The Hunchback", and eleven films in the British "Carry On" series.
Song Writing He won an Academy Award Nomination for writing the lyrics to "Georgy Girl", and has written songs for such films as "Shalako", "A Winter's Tale", "Twinky" and "Joseph Andrews".
Audio Books "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone" "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" "Harry Potter and the the Half Blood Prince" "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" "A Christmas Carol". "Peter and the Starcatchers" "Peter and the Shadow Thieves" "Peter and the Secret of Muldoon" "Around the World in Eighty Days" "King of Shadows" "Peter Pan" "Escape From the Carnivale" "Arthur and the Minimoys" "Arthur and the Forbidden City" "Stoneheart" "A Day With Wilbur Robinson" "Twas the Night Before Christmas"
jim-dale.com
| Artist | Dale, Jim + |
| Artist Type | Artist + |
| Birth Date | 15 August 1935 + |
| Genre | Vocal + |
| Page Type | Main Info Page + |
| RID | 832,179 + |
