James Ellis
James Ellis was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland on March 15th, 1931 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 82, James Ellis biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Career
In 1952, he began to perform with the Belfast-based Ulster Group Theatre. They Got What They Wanted (1947) was his first appearance in a revival of Louis D'Alton's play They Got What They Wanted (1947). Ellis became known as the company's young male lead in such productions as Assagh, where he was cast as McFettridge (1954). Is the Priest at Home? O'Grady (1954), and Anne Frank's Diary (1957).
Although acting as an actor in the main company, he also oversaw the operation of the company's summer theatre in Larne, north of Belfast. The lead role in a J.M. production is one of Ellis' most significant roles for the company. In 1957, Synge's The Playboy of the Western World.
Ellis was a big participant in Sam Thompson's much-anticipated Over the Bridge (1960). Ellis had been named the Company's Director of Productions in December 1958, but he resigned in July 1959 to direct Thompson's play, which was to be staged by a group of actors and directors who had left the company in protest over its refusal to cancel Over the Bridge, which had been in rehearsals.
Ellis soon moved to London, where he was cast as Dandy Jordan in the BBC TV version of Stewart Love's "Angry" play that was deemed "unsuitable for people of a nervous disposition."
Dandy's success made him a highly sought-after actor, as well as his appearances on BBC and ITV, including as Peter in Stewart Love's The Sugar Cube (1961–78), and eventually as Bert Lynch in Z-Cars (1962–78). His character developed from PC to Inspector in this police series, set in Lancashire's fictional Newtown. Ellis appeared in 629 episodes of this series, an all-time record for any actor's appearances in a television detective/police series. The Z-Cars' effect was so that he became a household name in this period.
Norman Martin, the tumultuous and unhappy father in Graham Reid's "Billy" trilogy of scripts, was first introduced in 1982 as part of the Play for Today series. A Matter of Choice for Billy (1983) and A Coming to Terms for Billy (1984) were the first two of the plays, Too Late to Talk to Billy. Lorna, a postscript to the trilogy, was first broadcast in 1987. Ellis appeared on "Afternoon Plus," a British television show starring Ellis in the mid-1980s.
He appeared in Doctor Who, In Sickness and in Wellbeing, Ballykissangel, Playing the Field, One by One and the cult sitcom Nightingales, with Robert Lindsay and David Threlfall.
Father Ellerton appeared in Antonia Bird's Priest (1994), a Jimmy McGovern screenplay. Ellis also contributed cameos to famous films such as Boys from the Blackstuff by Alan Bleasdale, Only Fools and Horses, The Bill, Casualty, Boon, Common as Muck, Birds of a Feather, Lovejoy, and Heartbeat.
When Michael Aspel surprised him in 2001, he was on This Is Your Life.
Ellis was also a poet, prose, and a translator. A collection of his adaptations from French in 2007 was shown on the BBC. Queen's University Belfast awarded Ellis an honorary doctorate in July 2008 as part of the University's centennial centennial celebrations.