Jimmy Edwards
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.
Acting
Movie
The Bed Sitting Room
as Nigel
1969
Movie
The Plank
as Policeman
1967
Movie
Innocents in Paris
as Captain George Stilton
1953
Movie
The Plank
as Policeman
1979
Movie
Bottoms Up!
as Professor Jim Edwards
1960
Movie
Three Men in a Boat
as Harris
1956
Movie
Treasure Hunt
as Sir Roderick Ryall/Hercules Ryall
1952
Movie
It's Your Move
as Policeman
1982
Movie
Rhubarb Rhubarb
1980
TV
Letter to Loretta
as Champ
1953
Movie
Mr. H Is Late
1988
TV
Sykes
as Self
1972
Movie
Rhubarb
as PC Rhubarb
1970
Movie
Helter Skelter
as Dr. Edwards
1949
Movie
Nearly a Nasty Accident
as Group Capt. Kingsley
1961
Movie
A Ghost of a Chance
as Sir Jocelyn
1967
TV
Cilla
as Self
1968
Movie
Lionheart
as Butcher
1968
Movie
Murder at the Windmill
as Jimmy Edwards
1949
Movie
Anoop and the Elephant
as Farmer Briggs
1972
Movie
Trouble in the Air
1948
TV
Six More Faces of Jim
1961
Movie
Charley's Aunt
as Mr. Spettigue
1977
TV
Whack-O!
as Professor Jimmy Edwards
1956