Biography: life and films
Sid James was an English actor whose birth name was Solomon Joel Cohen. He was born in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, South Africa on 8th May 1913 and died in Sunderland, England on 26th April 1976, aged 62.His best films as an actor include Charles Crichton's comedy The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), Val Guest's thriller Quatermass 2 (1957), Gerald Thomas's comedy-thriller Carry on Cabby (1963), Don't Lose Your Head (1966) and Carry On Up the Khyber (1968).
Sid James appeared in 111 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Gerald Thomas (23 films), John Gilling (6), Ralph Thomas (5), Basil Dearden (5), William Fairchild (3), Lewis Gilbert (3), Ken Hughes (3), John Paddy Carstairs (3), John Guillermin (3), J. Lee Thompson (3), Frank Launder (3), Val Guest (2), Roy Ward Baker (2), Maurice Elvey (2), Henry Cornelius (2), Henry Cass (2), Charles Crichton (2) and Carol Reed (2).
His most frequent genres include: comedy (61 films), drama (34), comedy-drama (9), comedy-romance (8), history (7), Thriller (7), War (6), Western (4), romance (3), Horror (3) and comedy-thriller (2).
Our average rating for Sid James over all films is: 3.0
Filmography
Key: a = actor
Black Memory (1947) [a]
Night Beat (1947) [a]
Give Us This Day (1949) [a]
Once a Jolly Swagman (1949) [a]
Paper Orchid (1949) [a]
The Small Back Room (1949) [a]
Last Holiday (1950) [a]
The Lady Craved Excitement (1950) [a]
Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951) [a]
Talk of a Million (1951) [a]
The Galloping Major (1951) [a]
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) [a]
Cosh Boy (1952) [a]
Emergency Call (1952) [a]
Father's Doing Fine (1952) [a]
Gift Horse (1952) [a]
I Believe in You (1952) [a]
Miss Robin Hood (1952) [a]
The Tall Headlines (1952) [a]
Time, Gentlemen, Please! (1952) [a]
Venetian Bird (1952) [a]
Escape by Night (1953) [a]
Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? (1953) [a]
Park Plaza 605 (1953) [a]
The Flanagan Boy (1953) [a]
The Square Ring (1953) [a]
The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953) [a]
The Wedding of Lilli Marlene (1953) [a]
The Yellow Balloon (1953) [a]
Will Any Gentleman...? (1953) [a]
Aunt Clara (1954) [a]
For Better, for Worse (1954) [a]
Orders Are Orders (1954) [a]
Seagulls Over Sorrento (1954) [a]
The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954) [a]
The Crowded Day (1954) [a]
The House Across the Lake (1954) [a]
The Rainbow Jacket (1954) [a]
The Weak and the Wicked (1954) [a]
A Kid for Two Farthings (1955) [a]
A Yank in Ermine (1955) [a]
It's a Great Day (1955) [a]
Joe MacBeth (1955) [a]
John and Julie (1955) [a]
Out of the Clouds (1955) [a]
The Deep Blue Sea (1955) [a]
Dry Rot (1956) [a]
Ramsbottom Rides Again (1956) [a]
The Extra Day (1956) [a]
Trapeze (1956) [a]
Wicked as They Come (1956) [a]
Campbell's Kingdom (1957) [a]
Hell Drivers (1957) [a]
Interpol (1957) [a]
The Shiralee (1957) [a]
The Smallest Show on Earth (1957) [a]
The Story of Esther Costello (1957) [a]
Another Time, Another Place (1958) [a]
I Was Monty's Double (1958) [a]
Next to No Time (1958) [a]
The Man Inside (1958) [a]
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1958) [a]
The Silent Enemy (1958) [a]
Desert Mice (1959) [a]
Idle on Parade (1959) [a]
Make Mine a Million (1959) [a]
Tommy the Toreador (1959) [a]
Upstairs and Downstairs (1959) [a]
And the Same to You (1960) [a]
The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's (1960) [a]
Watch Your Stern (1960) [a]
A Weekend with Lulu (1961) [a]
Carry on Regardless (1961) [a]
Double Bunk (1961) [a]
Raising the Wind (1961) [a]
The Green Helmet (1961) [a]
What a Whopper (1961) [a]
The Beauty Jungle (1964) [a]
The Big Job (1965) [a]
Three Hats for Lisa (1965) [a]
Don't Lose Your Head (1966) [a]
Where the Bullets Fly (1966) [a]
Carry On Up the Khyber (1968) [a]
Carry on Again Doctor (1969) [a]
Carry on Up the Jungle (1970) [a]
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