Eastbourne actor celebrates 50 years in TV and film

Jim will be at The Grove Theatre, Eastbourne Library, Grove Road, Eastbourne, BN21 4LT on Saturday, July 22 from 7.30pm-9pm when he will share memories of working on programmes including The Royal, Heartbeat, Emmerdale, The Royle Family, Last of the Summer Wine, Brookside, The Liver Birds, Home Fires, Coronation Street, Crown Court, The Return of Sherlock Holmes and Hollyoaks to name just a few. The night will feature plenty of clips of Jim in action as Jim tells how he went from being born into poverty in the back streets of Salford to following his dream of becoming an actor. Tickets are £10 each, with a raffle on the evening and a Q & A session with Jim in The Grove Theatre bar afterwards. Contact Michele at St Wilfrid’s for tickets on 01323 434224 or email [email protected].

Jim started out as a singer and amateur actor, going on to become a background artist and extra before graduating to the role of the small-part actor, in which guise he has been in around 50 episodes of Coronation Street and also just about every long-running northern programme you care to mention. Jim played four different parts in The Liver Birds. As he says it's the virtue of being a small part actor: you can always return in a different part a couple of years later.