Jim Dale
Jim Dale (born James Smith; 15 August 1935) is an English actor, director, narrator, singer and songwriter. In the United Kingdom he is known as a pop singer of the 1950s who became a leading actor at the National Theatre. In British film, along with Larry Dann, Angela Douglas, Patricia Franklin, Hugh Futcher, Alexandra Dane, Jill Goldston, Valerie Leon, Jacki Piper, Anita Harris and many others, he is now among the surviving actors to star in multiple Carry On films.
Dale was also a leading actor on Broadway, where he had roles in Scapino, Barnum (for which he won a Tony Award), Candide and Me and My Girl. He also narrated the U.S. audiobooks for all seven novels in the Harry Potter series, for which he won two Grammy Awards. Dale appeared in the ABC series Pushing Daisies (2007–2009); he also starred in the Disney film Pete's Dragon (1977). He was nominated for a BAFTA Award for portraying a young Spike Milligan in Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1973).
As a lyricist, Dale was nominated for both an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for the song "Georgy Girl", the theme for the 1966 film of the same title.
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