1. Jimmy Nail played the role of Leonard "Oz" Osborne in the television show Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, the title role in Spender and Jed Shepperd in Crocodile Shoes.
31 Facts About Jimmy Nail
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Jimmy Nail recorded a 1992 number one single, "Ain't No Doubt".
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Jimmy Nail's father was an Irish Catholic shipyard worker, amateur boxer, and professional footballer.
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Jimmy Nail describes himself as an angry child who was expelled from secondary school for setting fire to curtains.
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Jimmy Nail later spent time drinking, fighting, and generally rebelling against authority.
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Jimmy Nail was involved in a fight after a Newcastle United FC match during the 1970s and served a short prison sentence for grievous bodily harm.
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Jimmy Nail's sister Val McLane is an actress who co-founded the Live Theatre Company in Newcastle in 1973 and later became Head of Drama at Sunderland University.
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Jimmy Nail has enjoyed a wide and varied career since his big break in 1983, not only has he appeared in television shows, he has appeared in several movies, released a number of albums and acted on stage.
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Jimmy Nail appeared in the second series, which aired for 13 weeks in 1986.
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In 1994 Jimmy Nail created, executive produced, wrote and starred in the BBC television drama series Crocodile Shoes.
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In 2008, Jimmy Nail created and starred as Phil Parker in Parents of the Band, a six-episode series on BBC1, broadcast between November 2008 and January 2009.
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Jimmy Nail was renowned for performing in his girlfriend's dress and a pair of Doc Marten boots.
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The title track, which was a tribute to his hometown of Newcastle, was a success, peaking at No 18 and saw Jimmy Nail perform it on Top of the Pops.
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In 1997, Nail's back catalogue was deemed good enough to release a compilation, The Nail File: The Best of Jimmy Nail, which had an accompanying VHS which included all the music videos for the tracks.
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Jimmy Nail sang on the film soundtrack for Evita and received a double-platinum disk in recognition of 600,000-plus sales of the eponymous album.
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Jimmy Nail has participated in the Sunday for Sammy benefit concerts.
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Jimmy Nail performed at the 2000,2002,2004 and 2006 shows before he resigned from the board due to work commitments.
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Jimmy Nail worked as an extra on the British gangster film Get Carter.
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Jimmy Nail played gamekeeper "Rabbetts" in Danny, the Champion of the World, a 1989 television film based on the novel of the same name by Roald Dahl, and had a lead singing role in the 1996 film adaptation of Evita.
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In 1998 Jimmy Nail played Les Wickes in the Columbia Pictures film Still Crazy.
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The film's main theme, "The Flame Still Burns", performed by Jimmy Nail, was nominated for a Golden Globe award.
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In 2014 Jimmy Nail came out of retirement to act and sing in The Last Ship, a musical by Sting about the shipbuilders of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the hometown of both Jimmy Nail and Sting.
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Jimmy Nail worked in the shipyards and is the son of a shipyard foreman.
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On Broadway, when ticket sales began to drop, Sting replaced Jimmy Nail to try to save the musical, but it ended after a short run.
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Jimmy Nail sang on the Original Broadway Cast Recording and on Sting's album, The Last Ship.
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Jimmy Nail played Parson Nathaniel in a twelve week run of the Bill Kenwright production of War of the Worlds alongside David Essex and Michael Praed at the Dominion Theatre, London in 2016.
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Jimmy Nail had been due to reprise his role in the UK production of The Last Ship at Northern Stage on 12 March 2018.
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Jimmy Nail has written the songs in the show and plays the main character, Frankie Tanner.
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In 2004, Jimmy Nail sued News Group Newspapers and Harper Collins Publishers.
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Jimmy Nail described reading the article as one of the worst experiences of his life.
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Jimmy Nail has been a patron of FACT, a North-East based cancer charity, since 2017.