Sid James Overview:

Actor, Sid James, was born Solomon Joel Cohen on May 8, 1913 in Hillbrow, South Africa. James died at the age of 63 on Apr 26, 1976 in Sunderland, England .

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and Kenneth Connor as the unlikely roommates in What a Carve Up! (Pat Jackson, 1961)

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Sid James Quotes:

Sid: [Billy Gordon has refused to ransom his wife] What are we supposed to do now? Keep her as a pet?


Captain Keene: [news of the native revolt arrives] What do you intend to do, sir?
Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond: Do? Do? We're British. We won't do anything...
Major Shorthouse: ...until it's too late.
Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond: Exactly. That's the first sensible thing you've said all day.


Johnny Finger: What's the matter? What have I done wrong?
Sheriff Albert Earp: You just killed three men, mister.
Johnny Finger: I know that, but what have I done wrong?


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Sid James Facts
Career prior to acting was as a top ladies' hairdresser in South Africa.

Sid was nicknamed "One take James" because he nearly always did it right first time. He was also earning the highest daily rate of any British character actor.

Was the regular sidekick-cum-bête noir of Tony Hancock throughout the six series of the radio series "Hancock's Half Hour". Likewise, became Hancock's regular pal in the TV series "Hancock's Half Hour" (1956), until the final series when Hancock decided it was getting too much like a double act.

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