Sidney James
Born: 1913-05-08 in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, Union of South Africa
Died: 1976-04-26
Known For: Acting
Biography
Sidney James (born Solomon Joel Cohen; May 8, 1913 – April 26, 1976) was a South African-born English-based actor and comedian. He made his name as Tony Hancock's co-star in Hancock's Half Hour and also starred in the popular Carry On films. He was known for his trademark "dirty laugh" and lascivious persona. Bruce Forsyth summed up his talent thus: "He was a natural at being natural."
Filmography
2022
- Sid James: Comedy Icon as Self (Archive Footage)
2015
2001
- On Location: The Carry Ons as Various Characters (archive footage) (uncredited)
2000
- The Unforgettable Sid James as Self
1998
- What's a Carry On? as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1996
- Stop Messin' About!: The Very Best of Kenneth Williams as (Archive footage)
1994
- The World of Hammer as Self (archive footage)
1993
- Seriously Seeking Sid as Self (archive footage)
1983
1977
- To See Such Fun
- That's Carry On! as Various Characters (archive footage)
1976
- The World of Budgerigars as Self
1975
- Carry On Laughing as Prince Rupert / Arnold Basket
1974
- Carry On Dick as Big Dick Turpin
1973
- Carry On Girls as Councillor Sid Fiddler
- Carry on Christmas as Mr. Belcher / Seed Pod / Sir Henry / Sergeant Will Ball / Robin Hood
- What a Carry On!
1972
- Carry On Abroad as Vic Flange
- Carry On Matron as Sid Carter
- Bless This House as Sid Abbot
1971
- Carry On at Your Convenience as Sid Plummer
- Carry On Henry as King Henry VIII
- Bless This House as Sid Abbott
- All This, and Christmas Too! as Sid Jones
1970
- Carry On Loving as Sidney Bliss
- Carry On Again Christmas as Long John Silver
- Carry On Up the Jungle as Mr. Bill Boosey
1969
- Carry On Camping as Sid Boggle
- Carry On Christmas as Ebenezer Scrooge
- Two in Clover as Sid Turner
- Carry On Christmas Specials
- Carry On Again Doctor as Gladstone Screwer
1968
- Carry On Up the Khyber as Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond
- Vive Torbay as Self
1967
- Carry On Doctor as Mr. Charlie Roper
- Don't Lose Your Head as Sir Rodney Ffing, the Black Fingernail
1966
- Where the Bullets Fly as Mortuary Attendant
- George And The Dragon
- Don't Utter a Note as Basher Bates
1965
- Carry On Cowboy as Johnny Finger, the Rumpo Kid
- Tokoloshe as Harry Parsons
- The Big Job as George Brain
- Three Hats for Lisa as Sid Marks
1964
- Carry On Cleo as Mark Antony
- The Beauty Jungle as 'Butlins' Judge
1963
- Carry On Cabby as Charlie Hawkins
- We Joined the Navy as Dance Instructor
- Taxi! as Sid Stone
- Taxi! as Sid Stone
1962
- Carry On Cruising as Captain Wellington Crowther
- Look at Life: Getting a Move On as Self - Commentator
1961
- The Green Helmet as Richie Launder
- Carry On Regardless as Mr. Bert Handy
- What a Carve Up! as Sid Butler
- A Weekend with Lulu as Café Patron
- What a Whopper as Harry Sutton
- Raising the Wind as Sid
- Double Bunk as Sid Randall
1960
- Carry On Constable as Sergeant Frank Wilkins
- Watch Your Stern as Chief Petty Officer Mundy
- And the Same to You as Sammy Gatt
- The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's as Alphonse O'Reilly
- Citizen James
1959
- The 39 Steps as Perce Baker
- Tommy the Toreador as Cadena
- Upstairs and Downstairs as P.C. Edwards
- Make Mine a Million as Sid Gibson
- Idol on Parade as Herbie
- Desert Mice as Bert Bennett
- Too Many Crooks as Sid
- Look at Life as Narrator
- Look at Life: Market Place as Self - Commentator
- Look at Life: Dustmen's Day as Self - Commentator
1958
- The Adventures of William Tell as Schaffner
- The Man Inside as Franklin
- The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw as The Drunk
- I Was Monty's Double as Porter YMCA
- Another Time, Another Place as Jake Klein
- The Silent Enemy as Chief Petty Officer Thorpe
- Next to No Time as Albert, Cabin Steward
1957
- Hell Drivers as Dusty, Truck Driver
- The Shiralee as Luke
- The Story of Esther Costello as Joe Ryan
- The Smallest Show on Earth as Mr. Hogg
- Campbell's Kingdom as Tim, MacDonald's driver-rigger
- A King in New York as Johnson - TV Advertiser
- Quatermass 2 as Jimmy Hall
- Interpol as Joe - First Bartender
- Hancock's Half Hour: Volume 1 as Sidney Balmoral James
1956
- Trapeze as Snake Charmer
- The Buccaneers as Chantey Jack
- Hancock's Half Hour
- The Extra Day as Barney West
- The Iron Petticoat as Paul
- Wicked as They Come as Frank Allenborg
- Dry Rot as Flash Harry
- Ramsbottom Rides Again as Black Jake
1955
- Joe Macbeth as Banky
- A Kid for Two Farthings as Ice Berg
- The Deep Blue Sea as Man outside bar
- A Yank in Ermine as Nightclub manager
- The Glass Cage as Tony Lewis
- Out of the Clouds as Henry, the Gambler
- John and Julie as Mr. Pritchett
- It's a Great Day as Harry Mason
1954
- Father Brown as Bert Parkinson
- Aunt Clara as Honest Sid
- Orders Are Orders as Ed Waggermeyer
- The House Across the Lake as Beverly Forrest (as Sidney James)
- Seagulls Over Sorrento as Charlie Badger
- For Better, for Worse as The Foreman (as Sidney James)
- The Crowded Day as Joe, the Night Watchman
- The Weak and the Wicked as Syd Baden
- The Belles of St. Trinian's as Benny
- The Rainbow Jacket as Harry
1953
- The Flanagan Boy as Sharkey (as Sidney James)
- Cosh Boy as Desk Sergeant
- The Yellow Balloon as Charlie
- The Square Ring as Adams
- Park Plaza 605 as Supt. Williams (as Sidney James)
- Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? as Hank Hanlon
- The Titfield Thunderbolt as Harry Hawkins
- The Wedding of Lilli Marlene as Fennimore Hunt
- Will Any Gentleman...? as Mr. Hobson
- Escape by Night as Gino Rossini
- Box for One
1952
- Gift Horse as Ned Hardy, Landlord Golden Bull
- Emergency Call as Danny Marks
- Tall Headlines as Mr. Spencer, neighbor
- The Magic Box as Army Sergeant
- I Believe in You as Sergeant Body
- Miss Robin Hood as Sidney (as Sidney James)
- Venetian Bird as Bernardo
- Time, Gentlemen, Please! as Eric Hace
- Father's Doing Fine as Taxi Driver
1951
- Lady Godiva Rides Again as Lew Beeson
- Talk of a Million as John C. Moody
- The Galloping Major as Bookmaker
- The Lavender Hill Mob as Lackery
1950
- Last Holiday as Joe Clarence
- The Lady Craved Excitement as Carlo
- The Man in Black as Henry Clavering / Hodson
1949
- Paper Orchid as Freddy Evans (as Sidney James)
- The Small Back Room as 'Knucksie' Moran
- Give Us This Day as Murdin
- Once a Jolly Swagman as Rowton
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- No Orchids for Miss Blandish as uncredited
- The Front Page as Hildy Johnson
1947
- Nightbeat as Nixon (as Sidney James)
- Black Memory as Eddie Clinton