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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.
1988
1982
as Policeman
1980
1979
as Policeman
1978
as Father
1977
as Mr. Spettigue
1973
as Sir Yellow
1972
as Self
1972
as Farmer Briggs
1970
as PC Rhubarb
1969
as Nigel
1969
1968
as Self
1968
as Butcher
1967
as Policeman
1967
1967
as Sir Jocelyn
1961
1961
as Group Capt. Kingsley
1960
as Professor Jim Edwards
1956
as Harris
1956
as Professor Jimmy Edwards
1953
as Champ
1953
as Captain George Stilton
1952
as Sir Roderick Ryall/Hercules Ryall
1949
as Jimmy Edwards
1949
as Dr. Edwards
1948