1. James Arthur Thomas Jewel Marsh, known professionally as Jimmy Jewel, was an English comedian and actor whose long career in stage, radio, television and film productions, included a 32-year partnership with his cousin Ben Warriss.
11 Facts About Jimmy Jewel
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Jimmy Jewel made his first London stage appearance at the Bedford Music Hall, Camden Town in 1925.
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Jimmy Jewel worked as a solo act until 1934, then formed an enduring double act with Warriss, initially at the Palace Theatre, Newcastle.
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Jimmy Jewel played a murderous quick-change vaudeville artist in a 1968 episode of The Avengers.
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Jimmy Jewel then starred in the sitcom Nearest and Dearest with Hylda Baker, playing bickering brother-and-sister pickle factory owners Eli and Nellie Pledge.
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Jimmy Jewel then starred in the comedy series Spring and Autumn as retired railway worker Tommy Butler.
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Jimmy Jewel developed a distinguished stage career, initially by playing the jaded tutor, Eddie Waters, in the controversial Trevor Griffiths play Comedians.
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Jimmy Jewel then starred in Funny Man, a 1981 series about a family music hall act, based by writer Adele Rose on that of Jewel's own father.
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Jimmy Jewel appeared as Cannonball Lee, the boxing-loving grandfather of the Kray twins in the 1990 film The Krays, and as Michael Palin's father in American Friends.
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Jimmy Jewel was married to Belle Bluett, with whom he had a son and an adopted daughter.
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Jimmy Jewel died on 3 December 1995, aged 85, the day before his 86th birthday.