2016: Forever Ealing Book Reviewed, Photos & In StockSid James autographs, dvds, photographs, dvds and more @ ebay.co.uk (direct link to signed items) - just checked and a bigger selection than I have seen everywhere else During World War Two, as well as being an officer with an anti-tank regiment in the Middle East, Sid served with an entertainment unit, and decided to have a go at acting as a career, travelling to Britain in 1946 on his srvice gratuity. Breaking into repertory work almost straight away, he was soon grasped by the busy British post-war film industry, and became one of those faces that cropped up all over the place without youknowing the name to go with it. He couldplay shady East End characters, friendly cockneys, brash Americans with equal conviction, and his confident acting stylesoon put him in good featured roles. His first major comedy was The Lavender Hill Mob: he and Alfie Bass were the other two members of the bullion robbery gang headed by Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway. In the same year (1951), he made two more film comedies, Lady Godiva Rides Again and The Galloping Major, and played a comic singing gangster in the London stage production of Kiss Me Kate Sid was playing almost a role a month for British films in 1954 when he began the famous comedy partnership with Tony Hancock, at first on radio, in Hancock's Half Hour (1954-9)as part of the gaggle of funny supportingplayers, then in tandem with Hancock on TV (1956-60) as the seedy duo living at 23,Railway Cuttings, East Cheam. This quicklybecame the nost popular TV comedy seriesin Britain. James, with his deflating cry of'Allo, 'Ancock', was soon getting as manylaughs as his partner, much to the discomfortof the star, who eventually had Sid droppedfrom the show. Via a guest spot in anotherhit radio programme, Educating Archie, Sid bounced back into films to become a leadingmember of the Carry On gang. He made19 films with them altogether, but reallycame into his own in costume, superb as Henry VIII in Carry On Henry, but alsoincongruously and delightfully cast as the Rumpo Kid, the villain of Carry On Cowboy; Sir Rodney Ffing (alias the Black Fingernail), the scourge of the French in Don'tLose Your Head; Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond in Carry On Up the Khyber, and Turpin thehighwayman in Carry On Dick. Through allthese, the grin, chortle and demeanourremained the same; and comic ripostes werefired at perfect speed. The characters wereleering and lecherous ... and likeable. Hewas enjoyably Sid James in all of them andhis entrances were something to besavoured. Latterly he enjoyed success at thehead of casts of TV situation comedies,notably George and the Dragon, Taxi and BlessThis House. He survived a heart attack in1967 to offer audiences another nine yearsof a man who, in comedy at least, alwaysseemed to have the answer. There wasnational grief when a second heart attackkilled him at 62. Said Carry On co-star Hattie Jacques: 'He belied his TV and film image as a brash man. That image waseverything Sid was not in real life.'
 
- Bless This House Complete Series
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"Carry On Laughing!" (1975) TV Series .... Various Characters (Series 1) (1975)
Carry On Dick (1974) (as Sidney James) .... Dick Turpin/Rev. Flasher
Carry On Girls (1973) .... Sidney Fiddler
Carry On Christmas (1973) (TV) .... Various Characters
Bless This House (1972) .... Sid Abbot
Carry On Abroad (1972) .... Vic Flange
... aka Mad Holiday!, A (1972)
Carry On Matron (1972) (as Sidney James) .... Sid Carter
... aka Preggers Opera, The (1972) (UK)
... aka Womb at the Top (1972) (UK)
"Bless This House" (1971) TV Series (as Sidney James) .... Sid Abbott
Carry On at Your Convenience (1971) (as Sidney James) .... Sid Plummer
... aka Carry On Round the Bend (1971)
Carry On Henry (1971) (as Sidney James) .... King Henry VIII
... aka Carry On Henry VIII (1971) (USA)
All This, and Christmas Too! (1971) (TV) (as Sidney James) .... Sid Jones
Tokoloshe (1971) .... Blind Man
Carry On Loving (1970) (as Sidney James) .... Sidney Bliss
Carry On Up the Jungle (1970) (as Sidney James) .... Bill Boosey
... aka Carry On Up the Congo (1970)
Carry On Again Christmas (1970) (TV) .... Long John SilverCarry On Again Doctor (1969) (as Sidney James) .... Gladstone Screwer
Carry On Camping (1969) (as Sidney James) .... Sid Boggle
"Two in Clover" (1969) TV Series .... Sid Turner
Carry On Christmas (1969) (TV) .... Ebenezer Scrooge
Carry On... Up the Khyber (1968) .... Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond
Carry on Doctor (1967) .... Charlie Roper
Don't Lose Your Head (1966) .... Sir Rodney Ffing/The Black Fingernail
... aka Carry On Don't Lose Your Head (1968) (reissue title)
... aka Carry On Pimpernel (1966) (USA)
... aka Carry On: Don't Lose Your Head (1968) (reissue title)
"George and the Dragon" (1966) TV Series .... George Russell
Where the Bullets Fly (1966) (as Sidney James) .... Mortuary Attendant
Big Job, The (1965) .... George Brain
... aka What a Carry On: The Big Job (1965) (UK: video box title)
Three Hats for Lisa (1965) (as Sidney James) .... Sid Marks
... aka One Day in London (1965) (UK)
Carry On Cowboy (1965) (as Sidney James) .... Johnny Finger/The Rumpo Kid
... aka Rumpo Kid (1965)
... aka Rumpo Kid, The (1965)
Beauty Jungle, The (1964) (as Sydney James) .... 'Butlin' Judge
... aka Contest Girl (1966) (USA)
Carry On Cleo (1964) (as Sidney James) .... Mark Antony
... aka Caligula: Funniest Home Videos (1965) (USA: video title)
"Taxi!" (1963) TV Series .... Sid Stone
Carry On Cabby (1963) (as Sidney James) .... Charlie Hawkins
... aka Call Me a Cab (1963)
We Joined the Navy (1962) (uncredited) .... Dance Instructor
... aka We Are in the Navy Now (1962) (USA: TV title)
What a Carve Up (1962) .... Sid
... aka No Place Like Homicide! (1962) (USA)
Weekend with Lulu, A (1962) .... Patron
Carry On Cruising (1962) (as Sidney James) .... Captain Wellington Crowther
Raising the Wind (1961) .... Sid
... aka Roommates (1961) (USA)
What a Whopper! (1961) .... Harry
Double Bunk (1961) .... Sid
Green Helmet, The (1961) .... Richie Launder
Carry On Regardless (1961) (as Sidney James) .... Bert Handy
And the Same to You (1960) (as Sidney James) .... Sammy Gatt
Pure Hell of St. Trinian's, The (1960) .... Alphonse O'Reilly
Watch Your Stern (1960) (as Sidney James) .... CPO Mundy
... aka What a Carry On: Watch Your Stern (1994) (UK: video box title)
"Citizen James" (1960) TV Series .... Sidney Balmoral James
Carry On, Constable (1960) (as Sidney James) .... Sgt. Frank Wilkins Desert Mice (1959) .... Bert
Make Mine a Million (1959) .... Sid Gibson
Tommy the Toreador (1959) .... Cadena
Upstairs and Downstairs (1959) .... P.C. Edwards
Idle on Parade (1959) .... Herbie
... aka Idol on Parade (1959) (USA)
Next to No Time (1959) .... Albert, Cabin Steward
39 Steps, The (1959) (as Sidney James) .... Perce
I Was Monty's Double (1958) .... Civilian Desk Clerk
... aka Hell, Heaven or Hoboken (1958)
Sheriff of Fractured Jaw, The (1958) .... The drunk
Too Many Crooks (1958) .... Sid
Silent Enemy, The (1958) (as Sidney) .... Chief Petty Officer Thorpe
Man Inside, The (1958) .... Franklin
Another Time, Another Place (1958) (as Sidney James) .... Jake Klein
Pantomania: Babes in the Wood (1957) (TV) .... The Genie/Friar Tuck
Campbell's Kingdom (1957) .... Timid Driver
Smallest Show on Earth, The (1957) .... Mr. Hogg, Marlene's Dad
... aka Big Time Operators (1957) (USA)
Story of Esther Costello, The (1957) .... Ryan
... aka Golden Virgin, The (1957)
King in New York, A (1957) (as Sidney James) .... Johnson - TV Advertiser
Hell Drivers (1957) (as Sidney James) .... Dusty, Truck Driver
... aka Hard Drivers (1957)
Interpol (1957) (as Sidney James) .... Joe
... aka Pickup Alley (1957) (USA)
Shiralee, The (1957) (as Sidney James) .... Luke Sweeney
Quatermass 2 (1957) (as Sydney James) .... Jimmy Hall
... aka Enemy from Space (1957) (USA)
... aka Quatermass II: Enemy from Space (1957) (USA)
Dry Rot (1956) .... Flash Harry
Extra Day, The (1956) .... Barney West
"Hancock's Half Hour" (1956) TV Series .... Sidney James
Ramsbottom Rides Again (1956) .... Black Jake
Wicked as They Come (1956) .... Frank Allen
... aka Portrait in Smoke (1957) (USA)
Iron Petticoat, The (1956) (as Sidney James) .... Paul
... aka Not for Money (1956)
Crime of the Century, The (1956) (TV) .... Abbie
Trapeze (1956) (as Sidney James) .... Snake Charmer
It's a Great Day (1955) .... Harry Mason
Joe MacBeth (1955) .... Banky
John and Julie (1955) .... Mr. Pritchett
Yank in Ermine, A (1955) .... Manager
Deep Blue Sea, The (1955) (as Sidney James) .... Mna
Kid for Two Farthings, A (1955) .... Ice Berg
Glass Cage, The (1955) .... Tony Lewis
... aka Glass Tomb, The (1955) (USA)
Out of the Clouds (1955) .... Gambler
Crowded Day, The (1954) .... Watchman
... aka Shop Spoiled (1954) (USA)
For Better, for Worse (1954) .... The Foreman
... aka Cocktails in the Kitchen (1955) (USA)
Orders Are Orders (1954) .... Ed Waggermeyer
Aunt Clara (1954) .... Honest Sid
Crest of the Wave (1954) (as Sidney James) .... Seaman Charlie 'Badge' Badger
... aka Seagulls Over Sorrento (1954) (UK)
Belles of St. Trinian's, The (1954) .... Benny
Father Brown (1954) .... Parkinson
... aka Detective, The (1954) (USA)
Rainbow Jacket, The (1954) .... Harry
House Across the Lake, The (1954) (as Sidney James) .... Beverly Forrest
... aka Heat Wave (1954) (USA)
Escape by Night (1953) .... Gino Rossi
Weak and the Wicked, The (1953) (as Sidney James) .... Syd Baden
... aka Young and Willing (1954) (USA)
Wedding of Lilli Marlene, The (1953) .... Fennimore Hunt
Will Any Gentleman...? (1953) .... Mr. Hobson
Park Plaza 605 (1953) .... Supt. Williams
... aka Norman Conquest (1953) (USA)
Square Ring, The (1953) .... Adams
Flanagan Boy, The (1953) .... Sharkey
... aka Bad Blonde (1953) (USA)
... aka Woman Is Trouble, The (1953)
Titfield Thunderbolt, The (1953) (as Sidney James) .... Hawkins
Yellow Balloon, The (1953) (as Sydney James) .... Barrow Boy
Cosh Boy (1952) .... Police Sergeant
... aka Slasher, The (1953) (USA)
... aka Tough Guy, The (1952)
Emergency Call (1952) .... Danny Marks
... aka Emergency! (1952)
... aka Hundred Hour Hunt, The (1953) (USA)
Father's Doing Fine (1952) .... Taxi Driver
Gift Horse (1952) (as Sidney James) .... Ned Hardy, Owner Golden Bull
... aka Glory at Sea (1953) (USA)
Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? (1952) .... Hank Hanlon
Miss Robin Hood (1952) (as Sidney James) .... Sidney
Time Gentlemen Please! (1952) (as Sidney James) .... Eric Hace
... aka Nothing to Lose (1952)
Venetian Bird (1952) .... Bernardo
... aka Assassin, The (1953) (USA)
... aka El Alaméin (1952)
Tall Headlines, The (1952) .... Mr. Spencer
... aka Frightened Bride, The (1953) (USA)
I Believe in You (1952) .... Sgt. Body
Magic Box, The (1951) .... Sergeant in Storeroom
Talk of a Million (1951) .... John C. Moody
... aka You Can't Beat the Irish (1951)
Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951) .... Lew Beeson
Galloping Major, The (1951) .... Bookmaker
Lavender Hill Mob, The (1951) (as Sidney James) .... Lackery
Here's Television (1951) (TV) (as Sidney James)
Lady Craved Excitement, The (1950) .... Carlo
Last Holiday (1950) .... Joe Clarence Family Affairs (1949) (TV) (as Sidney James)
Man in Black (1949) .... Henry Clavering/Hodson
Paper Orchid (1949) .... Freddy Evans
Give Us This Day (1949) .... Murdin
... aka Christ in Concrete (1949) (USA)
... aka Salt and the Devil (1949)
... aka Salt to the Devil (1949) (USA)
Small Back Room, The (1949) (as Sidney James) .... 'Knucksie' Moran, barkeeper
... aka Hour of Glory (1952) (USA)
No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948) .... Ted the Barman
... aka Black Dice (1948)
Once a Jolly Swagman (1948) .... Rowton
... aka Maniacs on Wheels (1948) (USA)
Front Page, The (1948) (TV) (as Sidney James) .... Hildy Johnson
Kid Flanagan (1948) (TV) (as Sidney James) .... Sharkey Morrison
It Always Rains on Sunday (1948) (uncredited) .... Bandleader
Black Memory (1947) .... Eddie Clinton
October Man, The (1947) (uncredited) .... Man crossing railway bridge
Night Beat (1947) .... Nixon
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