Jim DaleFilmography

Pushing Daisies: Season 01

Actors: Lee Pace, Anna Friel, Chi McBride, Kristin Chenoweth, Swoosie Kurtz

The Hunchback

Actors: Mandy Patinkin, Salma Hayek, Richard Harris, Nigel Terry, Jim Dale

Synopsis: In medieval Paris, a deformed foundling named Quasimodo grows up under the care and tutelage of Dom Claude Frollo, the archdeacon of the Cathedral of Notre Dame. Quasimodo is humpbacked, lame, and blind in a drooping eye -- a human gargoyle who keeps to the shadows of the great church as its Read More

Arthur Miller's The American Clock

Actors: Eddie Bracken, Loren Dean, Mary McDonnell, Joanna Miles, Kelly Preston, David Strathairn, Darren McGavin, John Rubinstein

Synopsis: This made-for-cable version of Arthur Miller's play The American Clock was adapted for television by Frank Galati. Inspired partly by Studs Terkel's oral history Hard Times, and partly by Miller's own recollections, the film is set at the beginning of the Depression. When the stock market crashes Read More

Lincoln: I Want to Finish This Job, 1864

Synopsis: By the third year of the Civil War, personal and national tragedy had worn down President Lincoln. However, he focused on his job tenaciously, having a strong sense of history. This is the third of four programs in the Lincoln series, which originally aired on PBS. Produced and directed by Peter Read More

Lincoln: The Making of a President, 1860-1862

Synopsis: A shrewd politician, Abraham Lincoln had the intelligence, ambition, and principles to grow into his job as president. This is the first of four videos in the Lincoln series, which originally aired on PBS. Produced and directed by Peter W. Kunhardt, this program is narrated by renowned actor James Read More

Lincoln: The Pivotal Year, 1863

Synopsis: President Abraham Lincoln leads the Union in the fight to end the awful bloodshed of the Civil War. The year is 1863. The president had a continuous struggle with the commanders of his army, and the bloodshed from the fighting at Antietam and Fredericksburg distressed him greatly. 1863 was the Read More

Carry on Columbus

Actors: Jim Dale, Bernard Cribbins, Maureen Lipman, Peter Richardson, Alexei Sayle

Synopsis: In this last gasp of the "Carry On" series, minus most of the "Carry On" players, Jim Dale plays Spanish map-maker Christopher Columbus, who has a plan to navigate a new route to India, bypassing the Sultan of Turkey (Rik Mayall) and his sky-high tributes. He convinces King Ferdinand of Spain (Leslie Phillips Read More

Lincoln: Now He Belongs to the Ages, 1865

Synopsis: This video is the fourth installment of the Lincoln series, originally aired on PBS. This volume focuses on the last days and hours of Abraham Lincoln's life. Viewers watch as Lincoln's enemies plot their final revenge on the man they believed had dishonored their heritage. The video also reveals Read More

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Actors: Sam Williams, Patrick Day, Frederic Forrest

Synopsis: 1985's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the only filmed version of the Mark Twain classic to cover every episode in the original novel and not merely such familiar vignettes as the "King and the Duke" business. Presented in four parts, Finn opens in 1844, with young Huck (Patrick Day) Read More

Scandalous

Actors: Robert Hays, John Gielgud, Pamela Stephenson, Jim Dale, M. Emmet Walsh

Synopsis: In this superficial interpretation of an intended suspense story and comedy, Robert Hays plays a TV anchor man on a flight to London who is duped by his attractive co-passenger (Pamela Stephenson) into thinking he is onto secret spying activities. After the plane lands, the newsman is unexpectedly Read More

Unidentified Flying Oddball

Actors: Dennis Dugan, Kenneth More, Jim Dale, Ron Moody, John Le Mesurier

Synopsis: We prefer the original release title of Disney's A Spaceman in King Arthur's Court: Unidentified Flying Oddball. In this new twist on an old Mark Twain yarn, NASA scientist Dennis Dugan and his robot clone are whisked back in time to the days of King Arthur (Kenneth More). After performing several Read More

Hot Lead and Cold Feet

Actors: Jim Dale, Karen Valentine, Don Knotts, Jack Elam, John Williams

Synopsis: In this Disney western, Jim Dale plays Eli Bloodshy, and his twin sons Wild Billy and Jasper. The older man has founded the town of Bloodshy, and now that he has apparently died, his sons must battle for control of his legacy in a wild train race. One of them is a city-slicker, a mild-mannered Read More

Joseph Andrews

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Ann-Margret, Peter Firth, Michael Hordern, Beryl Reid, Jim Dale

Synopsis: Tony Richardson attempts to re-create the glory days of Tom Jones in this adaptation of the 1742 Henry Fielding novel. Peter Firth stars in this picaresque tale as Joseph Andrews, a young servant switched at birth who undergoes a series of romantic escapades. Joseph even has the fortune of Read More

Pete's Dragon

Actors: Helen Reddy, Jim Dale, Mickey Rooney, Red Buttons, Shelley Winters

Synopsis: Based on a story by Hollywood old-timers Seton I. Miller and S. S. Field, Pete's Dragon divides its time between its flesh-and-blood characters and an animated blue dragon. Pete (Sean Marshall), a lonely orphan boy in turn-of-the-century Maine, runs away from his abusive foster family. He stumbles Read More

The National Health, or Nurse Norton's Affair

Actors: Neville Aurelius, George Browne

Synopsis: National Health, or Nurse Norton's Affair is an antic filmization of Peter Nichols' play, originally staged by Britain's National Theatre. A scattershot satire of the red tape and inconsistencies of England's National Health program, the film is set in the men's ward of an old, crumbling hospital. Read More

Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World

Actors: Clovissa Newcombe

Synopsis: The exploits of the title sheepdog provide the basis of this family-oriented comedy fantasy. Digby started out as an ordinary puppy but then one day got in to a bowl full of Project X, a special formula meant to grow larger vegetables. As he galumphs along in the countryside causing all kinds of Read More

Adolf Hitler - My Part in His Downfall

Actors: Jim Dale, Spike Milligan

Synopsis: If you've never sampled the off-the-beam humor of British comic-giant Spike Milligan, by all means look up Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall. Milligan stars as a long-in-tooth Army rookie, going through basic training in the early war years. "God smiles on the incompetent" seems to be the Read More

Carry on Again, Doctor

Actors: Kenny Williams, Sidney James, Charles Hawtrey, Jim Dale, Joan Sims, Hattie Jacques

Synopsis: The British "Carry On" series was in its 12th year when Carry On Again, Doctor was unleashed upon a panting public in 1969. Veteran Carry On-ers Kenneth Williams, Sidney James, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Hattie Jacques, Jim Dale and Barbara Windsor fill the principal roles in this hospital farce. Read More

Lock Up Your Daughters!

Actors: Christopher Plummer, Susannah York, Glynis Johns, Ian Bannen, Tom Bell

Synopsis: Three sailors on shore leave engage in a series of comedic sexual pursuits in Lock Up Your Daughters!. Jim Dale, Ian Bannen, and Tom Bell hit dry land with one thing on their minds -- something that lands everyone in jail in this comedic romp. Susannah York, Glynis Johns, and Elaine Taylor become Read More

Lola

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Singer

Actors: Charles Bronson, Susan George, Trevor Howard, Michael Craig, Honor Blackman

Synopsis: A couple tries to hold their relationship together despite the twenty-three year gap in their ages in this romantic comedy/drama. Scott Wardman (Charles Bronson) is an 39-year-old American author living in England who supports himself by writing pornographic novels. Scott meets Twinky (Susan Read More

The Winter's Tale

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Jane Asher, Diana Churchill, Moira Redmond, Jim Dale

Synopsis: This feature is a filmed stage production of the tragedy by William Shakespeare. Laurence Harvey stars as Leontes, the jealous king who eventually repents his wrongdoings. Moira Redmond is Queen Hermione who is victimized by the indiscretions of her monarch husband. Jane Asher is the village Read More

Carry on Doctor

Actors: Frankie Howerd, Sidney James, Kenny Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Jim Dale

Synopsis: The producers of the popular British "Carry On" series aren't going to fix something if it is not broken. This workable, slapstick comedy returns to a hospital setting and benefits from the same gags that made Carry On, Nurse a top draw in Britain. Instead of Dr. Kildare, this emergency unit has Read More

Shalako

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Sean Connery, Brigitte Bardot, Peter Van Eyck, Stephen Boyd, Honor Blackman

Synopsis: In this western adventure, Shalako (Sean Connery) leads a hunting expedition in the wilds of New Mexico. There they run across an Apache camp where the Countess Irina (Brigitte Bardot) is being held hostage. When the Indians retaliate by destroying the camp of the European aristocrats, Shalako Read More

The Plank

Actors: Tommy Cooper, Eric Sykes, Jimmy Edwards, Roy Castle, Graham Stark

Synopsis: In this slapstick comedy two bumbling workmen attempt to take a long wooden plank through a London suburb to a building site. Mayhem ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Don't Lose Your Head

Actors: Sidney James, Kenny Williams, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtrey, Peter Butterworth

Synopsis: Part of the "Carry On Series", this is a satire on the French Revolution in which Sidney James portrays the Black Fingernail, a rip-off Scarlet Pimpernel using double entendres and jokes of questionable taste and a wide variety of disguises to hid his identity. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Follow That Camel

Actors: Phil Silvers, Jim Dale, Peter Butterworth, Charles Hawtrey, Kenny Williams

Synopsis: Though not advertised as such, Follow That Camel was an entry in Britain's long-running "Carry On" series. Phil Silvers stars as Sgt. Nocker, a self-styled hero of the Foreign Legion. Nocker's feet of clay are readily apparent to young recruit Bertram Oliphant West (Jim Dale), but "orders is Read More

Carry on Screaming

Actors: Harry H. Corbett, Kenny Williams, Fenella Fielding, Joan Sims, Charles Hawtrey

Synopsis: One of several satirical films in the British "Carry On" series, this is a broad spoof of horror films in general and of Universal monster movies in particular. The buffoonish heroes -- a pair of inept Scotland Yard inspectors named Bung and Slowbottom -- are investigating the disappearance of Read More

Georgy Girl

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: James Mason, Alan Bates, Lynn Redgrave, Charlotte Rampling, Rachel Kempson

Synopsis: Georgy Girl is a bittersweet comedy drama about Georgy (Lynn Redgrave), a slightly overweight, working-class virgin in her early twenties who shares an apartment with the gorgeous, promiscuous Meredith (Charlotte Rampling). Georgy has never been the subject of the desire for any man until the Read More

The Big Job

Actors: Sidney James, Sylvia Syms, Dick Emery, Lance Percival, Joan Sims

Synopsis: Though long defunct in the United States, the tiny production firm of Pathe continued churning out British programmers into the 1960s. Pathe's The Big Job stars Sidney James, Dick Emery and Lance Percival as a trio of none-too-bright bank robbers. Released from jail after 15 years, the intrepid Read More

Carry on Cleo

Actors: Sidney James, Kenny Williams, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims

Synopsis: The multi-million dollar film extravaganza Cleopatra was too convenient a target for Britain's "Carry On" funsters to ignore. The plot of Carry on Cleo, if one can discern a plot amidst the sight gags and outrageous puns, involves the attempts by a bungling slave (Kenneth Connor) to rescue Julius Read More

Nurse on Wheels

Actors: Juliet Mills, Ronald Lewis, Joan Sims, Noel Purcell, Esma Cannon

Synopsis: In this British comedy, a new nurse comes to replace her predecessor, the town pump, in an English country town. Soon, she herself becomes grist for the nasty town rumor mill. Fortunately, she becomes friends with the town doctor, his son, and shop owner. As the nurse is a dreadful driver, she Read More

Carry on Spying

Actors: Kenny Williams, Bernard Cribbins, Charles Hawtrey, Barbara Windsor, Eric Pohlmann

Synopsis: Britain's long-running (some would say interminable) series of "Carry On" comedies managed to satirize virtually every film genre ever conceived over three decades. Since espionage dramas were hot in 1964, it was inevitable that the unwary world would be treated to Carry on Spying. The "maguffin" Read More

Carry on Cowboy

Actors: Sidney James, Kenny Williams, Jim Dale, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims

Synopsis: In one of the best of the long-running Carry On series, Western clichés are run through the Carry-On wringer. The film takes place in wild and woolly Stodge City, a town held in thrall to the nasty dealings of The Rumpo Kid (Sidney James). The Rumpo Kid holds the town in such abject terror that Read More

The Swingin' Maiden

Carry on Jack

Actors: Kenny Williams, Bernard Cribbins, Juliet Mills, Charles Hawtrey, Donald Houston

Synopsis: Carry on Venus was originally titled Carry On Jack. A parody of seafaring epics, this one takes place in 1805 (give or take a few years). Kenneth Williams stars as Captain Fearless, doing battle against pirates, mutineers and the Spanish Armada (in 1805?) The recently released Marlon Brando Read More

Carry On Cabby

Actors: Sidney James, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Esma Cannon

Synopsis: The seventh film in the long-running "Carry On" series (24 more were to follow), this chapter features Sidney James as Charlie, owner of the Speedee Cab Company. Business has been good for Charlie, so good that it's been a source of great aggravation for his wife Peggy (Hattie Jacques), who Read More

Roommates

The Sergeant Was a Lady

Actors: Martin West, Venetia Stevenson, Bill Williams, Catherine McLeod

Synopsis: Military women prove their mettle against military men in this low-budget comedy. The fun begins after a handsome corporal is accidentally assigned to a WAC base located on a Pacific island. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Squad Car

Actors: Paul Bryar, Don Marlowe, Jimmy Cross, Jack Harris

Synopsis: In this crime melodrama set in Phoenix, a police investigator looks into a counterfeiting ring. Among the gang members is a pretty singer. Meanwhile the owner of a local business is falsely accused of murder after one of his employees is killed. Fortunately, the owner and his girlfriend work Read More

Six-Five Special

Actors: Lonnie Donegan, Jim Dale, Petula Clark

Synopsis: Six-Five Special is an expansion on the popular BBC TV variety series of the same name. Not unlike America Bandstand, the BBC's Six-Five Special spotlighted England's top rock-and-roll and R&B acts, as well as a few talented newcomers on the verge of stardom. The predictable plotline involves a Read More

Josephine and Men

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Glynis Johns, Jack Buchanan, Donald Sinden, Peter Finch, Heather Thatcher

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a womanizing uncle tells the story of his good-hearted but fickle niece, whose tendency to always champion the underdog causes her endless romantic woes. It all begins when she breaks up with her fiance on the eve of their wedding so she can marry and help out a Read More