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
- That's Carry On! as Various Characters (archive footage)
- To See Such Fun
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
- Bless This House as Sid Abbott
- Carry On at Your Convenience as Sid Plummer
- Carry On Henry as King Henry VIII
- All This, and Christmas Too! as Sid Jones
1970
- Carry On Loving as Sidney Bliss
- Carry On Up the Jungle as Mr. Bill Boosey
- Carry On Again Christmas as Long John Silver
1969
- Two in Clover as Sid Turner
- Carry On Camping as Sid Boggle
- Carry On Christmas Specials
- Carry On Again Doctor as Gladstone Screwer
- Carry On Christmas as Ebenezer Scrooge
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
- George and the Dragon
- Where the Bullets Fly as Mortuary Attendant
- Don't Utter a Note as Basher Bates
1965
- Carry On Cowboy as Johnny Finger, the Rumpo Kid
- The Big Job as George Brain
- Three Hats for Lisa as Sid Marks
- Tokoloshe as Harry Parsons
1964
- Carry On Cleo as Mark Antony
- The Beauty Jungle as 'Butlins' Judge
1963
- Taxi! as Sid Stone
- Taxi! as Sid Stone
- Carry On Cabby as Charlie Hawkins
- We Joined the Navy as Dance Instructor
1962
- Carry On Cruising as Captain Wellington Crowther
- Look at Life: Getting a Move On as Self - Commentator
1961
- Carry On Regardless as Mr. Bert Handy
- What a Whopper as Harry Sutton
- A Weekend with Lulu as Café Patron
- What a Carve Up! as Sid Butler
- Raising the Wind as Sid
- Double Bunk as Sid Randall
- The Green Helmet as Richie Launder
1960
- Citizen James as Sidney 'Sid' Balmoral James
- Carry On Constable as Sergeant Frank Wilkins
- The Pure Hell of St Trinian's as Alphonse O'Reilly
- And the Same to You as Sammy Gatt
- Watch Your Stern as Chief Petty Officer Mundy
1959
- Look at Life as Narrator
- The 39 Steps as Perce Baker
- Upstairs and Downstairs as P.C. Edwards
- Desert Mice as Bert Bennett
- Make Mine a Million as Sid Gibson
- Too Many Crooks as Sid
- Tommy the Toreador as Cadena
- Idol on Parade as Herbie
- Look at Life: Dustmen's Day as Self - Commentator
- Look at Life: Market Place as Self - Commentator
1958
- The Adventures of William Tell as Schaffner
- The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw as The Drunk
- The Man Inside as Franklin
- I Was Monty's Double as Porter YMCA
- The Silent Enemy as Chief Petty Officer Thorpe
- Another Time, Another Place as Jake Klein
- Next to No Time as Albert, Cabin Steward
1957
- Hell Drivers as Dusty, Truck Driver
- A King in New York as Johnson - TV Advertiser
- Quatermass 2 as Jimmy Hall
- The Shiralee as Luke
- Interpol as Joe - First Bartender
- Campbell's Kingdom as Tim, MacDonald's driver-rigger
- The Smallest Show on Earth as Mr. Hogg
- The Story of Esther Costello as Joe Ryan
- Hancock's Half Hour: Volume 1 as Sidney Balmoral James
1956
- The Buccaneers as Chantey Jack
- Hancock's Half Hour
- Armchair Theatre as Basher Bates
- Trapeze as Snake Charmer
- The Iron Petticoat as Paul
- The Extra Day as Barney West
- Wicked as They Come as Frank Allenborg
- Dry Rot as Flash Harry
- Ramsbottom Rides Again as Black Jake
1955
- Out of the Clouds as Henry, the Gambler
- The Deep Blue Sea as Man outside bar
- A Kid for Two Farthings as Ice Berg
- A Yank in Ermine as Nightclub manager
- Joe Macbeth as Banky
- John and Julie as Mr. Pritchett
- The Glass Cage as Tony Lewis
- It's a Great Day as Harry Mason
1954
- The Belles of St Trinian's as Benny
- Aunt Clara as Honest Sid
- Father Brown as Bert Parkinson
- The Crowded Day as Joe, the Night Watchman
- The House Across the Lake as Beverly Forrest (as Sidney James)
- For Better, for Worse as Foreman
- The Rainbow Jacket as Harry
- Seagulls Over Sorrento as Charlie Badger
- Orders Are Orders as Ed Waggermeyer
- The Weak and the Wicked as Syd Baden
1953
- Cosh Boy as Desk Sergeant
- The Titfield Thunderbolt as Harry Hawkins
- Park Plaza 605 as Supt. Williams (as Sidney James)
- The Square Ring as Adams
- The Flanagan Boy as Sharkey (as Sidney James)
- Will Any Gentleman...? as Mr. Hobson
- The Yellow Balloon as Charlie
- Box for One
- Escape by Night as Gino Rossini
- Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? as Hank Hanlon
- The Wedding of Lilli Marlene as Fennimore Hunt
1952
- The Magic Box as Army Sergeant
- Venetian Bird as Bernardo
- Gift Horse as Ned Hardy, Landlord Golden Bull
- Emergency Call as Danny Marks
- Time, Gentlemen, Please! as Eric Hace
- Miss Robin Hood as Sidney (as Sidney James)
- Tall Headlines as Mr. Spencer, neighbor
- I Believe in You as Sergeant Body
- Father's Doing Fine as Taxi Driver
1951
- The Lavender Hill Mob as Lackery
- Lady Godiva Rides Again as Lew Beeson
- The Galloping Major as Bookmaker
- Talk of a Million as John C. Moody
1950
- Last Holiday as Joe Clarence
- The Man in Black as Henry Clavering / Hodson
- The Lady Craved Excitement as Carlo
1949
- The Small Back Room as 'Knucksie' Moran
- Paper Orchid as Freddy Evans (as Sidney James)
- Once a Jolly Swagman as Rowton
- Give Us This Day as Murdin
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