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Jim Dale
Birth at
15 August 1935
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Born in Rothwell, Northampshire. After school, he served for two years in the Royal Air Force of Great Britain; after the army, he began acting. His stage career was booming – at the age of eighteen, Dale had already traveled with concerts to all the greatest music halls in the country. He played in both regular plays and musicals; Dale was nominated for a Tony Award five times and won it once (for his role in the musical Barnum). In 2006, he played on Broadway in The Threepenny Opera. For residents
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Born in Rothwell, Northampshire. After school, he served for two years in the Royal Air Force of Great Britain; after the army, he began acting. His stage career was booming – at the age of eighteen, Dale had already traveled with concerts to all the greatest music halls in the country. He played in both regular plays and musicals; Dale was nominated for a Tony Award five times and won it once (for his role in the musical Barnum). In 2006, he played on Broadway in The Threepenny Opera.
For residents of the United States and Canada, Dale, first of all, is the voice of the narrator in the audiobooks of the Harry Potter series (in the UK, the version from the Bloomsberry publishing house, performed by Stephen Fry, is more common). For this role, he was nominated for six Grammy Awards (and won twice), and received nine Audi Awards (including Best Audiobook 2004, Best Narrator 2004/2005/2007, Best Children's Audiobook 2005), two Benjamin Franklin Awards and eleven Audio File Iarfon Awards. In addition, he has voiced the narrator in computer games about Harry Potter and twice entered the Guinness Book of Records – for creating and recording 146 different voices for the audiobook “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” and for the first six places in the top ten most popular audiobooks in the United States and Canada in 2005.
Dale's first major successes in the field of cinema date back to 1964 - not the first, but one of his most famous roles, in the film "Carry on Cabby" - the first film in a long series of full-length farces "Carry On..." (in Russia little-known). Dale has appeared in twelve films in the series, usually portraying an unlucky lover. In addition to the series “Carry on”, Dale starred in the films “Adolf Hitler: My Role in His Fall”, “The Board”, “Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World”, Disney’s “Pete’s Dragon” and “Cosmonaut and King Arthur” and many others.
Of Dale's songs, the most famous is the title theme of the film "Georgy Girl", which was nominated for an Academy Award in 1966 and, performed by The Seekers, reached second place in the American charts.