Biography: life and films
James Robertson Justice was an English actor whose birth name was James Norval Harald Robertson Justice. He was born in Lewisham, London, England on 15th June 1907 and died in Winchester, Hampshire, England on 2nd July 1975, aged 68.His best films as an actor include Frederick Wilson's comedy-thriller Poet's Pub (1949), Ralph Thomas's Above Us the Waves (1955), Hugo Fregonese's Seven Thunders (1957), George Pollock's Murder She Said (1961) and Doctor in Distress (1963).
James Robertson Justice appeared in 80 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Ralph Thomas (13 films), Ken Annakin (6), J. Lee Thompson (2), Harold French (2), Charles Crichton (2), Basil Dearden (2) and Anthony Asquith (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (37 films), comedy (30), War (13), history (8), romance (7), comedy-drama (6), comedy-romance (4), Thriller (3), Fantasy (3), Biography (3), crime-thriller (2) and Horror (2).
Our average rating for James Robertson Justice over all films is: 2.9
Filmography
Key: a = actor
For Those in Peril (1944) [a]
Appointment with Crime (1946) [a]
Against the Wind (1948) [a]
My Brother Jonathan (1948) [a]
Quartet (1948) [a]
Scott of the Antarctic (1948) [a]
Vice Versa (1948) [a]
Christopher Columbus (1949) [a]
Poet's Pub (1949) [a]
Private Angelo (1949) [a]
Stop Press Girl (1949) [a]
My Daughter Joy (1950) [a]
Prelude to Fame (1950) [a]
The Black Rose (1950) [a]
Blackmailed (1951) [a]
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951) [a]
David and Bathsheba (1951) [a]
Pool of London (1951) [a]
Les Miserables (1952) [a]
Miss Robin Hood (1952) [a]
The Lady Says No (1952) [a]
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952) [a]
The Voice of Merrill (1952) [a]
Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue (1953) [a]
The Sword and the Rose (1953) [a]
Doctor in the House (1954) [a]
Above Us the Waves (1955) [a]
An Alligator Named Daisy (1955) [a]
Land of the Pharaohs (1955) [a]
Out of the Clouds (1955) [a]
Storm Over the Nile (1955) [a]
Checkpoint (1956) [a]
Moby Dick (1956) [a]
Campbell's Kingdom (1957) [a]
Doctor at Large (1957) [a]
Seven Thunders (1957) [a]
Souvenir d'Italie (1957) [a]
The Living Idol (1957) [a]
Orders to Kill (1958) [a]
Upstairs and Downstairs (1959) [a]
A French Mistress (1960) [a]
Die Botschafterin (1960) [a]
Doctor in Love (1960) [a]
Foxhole in Cairo (1960) [a]
Raising the Wind (1961) [a]
The Guns of Navarone (1961) [a]
Very Important Person (1961) [a]
A Pair of Briefs (1962) [a]
Dr. Crippen (1962) [a]
Guns of Darkness (1962) [a]
Le Repos du guerrier (1962) [a]
Das Feuerschiff (1963) [a]
Doctor in Distress (1963) [a]
Mystery Submarine (1963) [a]
Father Came Too! (1964) [a]
The Face of Fu Manchu (1965) [a]
Up from the Beach (1965) [a]
You Must Be Joking! (1965) [a]
Doctor in Clover (1966) [a]
Lange Beine - lange Finger (1966) [a]
The Trygon Factor (1966) [a]
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) [a]
Histoires extraordinaires (1968) [a]
Mayerling (1968) [a]
Hell Is Empty (1969) [a]
Zeta One (1969) [a]
Doctor in Trouble (1970) [a]
Some Will, Some Won't (1970) [a]
The Massacre of Glencoe (1971) [a]
The best of American film noir
The very best French thrillers
The best of British film comedies
