Jim Dale

Jim Dale (born James Smith; 15 August 1935) is an English actor, director, narrator, singer and songwriter. In the United Kingdom he is known as a pop singer of the 1950s who became a leading actor at the National Theatre. In British film, along with Larry Dann, Angela Douglas, Patricia Franklin, Hugh Futcher, Alexandra Dane, Jill Goldston, Valerie Leon, Jacki Piper, Anita Harris and many others, he is now the only surviving main actor of the Carry On films. Dale was also a leading actor on Broadway, where he had roles in Scapino, Barnum (for which he won a Tony Award), Candide and Me and My Girl. He also narrated the U.S. audiobooks for all seven novels in the Harry Potter series, for which…