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...dogged Dale joined a touring music-hall company as a fifth-banana comic. "I was no good, but I learned a lot," says Jim. He adds rather chillingly: "There is something about walking offstage with no one clapping that forces you to think...
Many young men would think their way into another line of work, but Dale diversified into rock singing. "I had my own little amplifier and guitar," he remembers-Dale is full of dry, self-deprecatory anecdotes. "What I did not realize was that it was a receiver too. Suddenly in the middle of a song, out would come, 'Zebra 2, Zebra 2, go immediately to Pimlico Road.' It made quite a contrast to folk-rock...
...lange of show business careers followed, some of them successful. Dale cut a few records, but "after a while that got boring." He followed with a six-month spin as a disc jockey, spent two years as host of a daytime TV comedy show and wrote songs for films like Georgy Girl and Shalako. He also played a variety of antic characters in 13 films in the Carry On ... series, and there he perfected his tumbledown, knockabout maneuvers. "Falling is an art," he says. "It's a matter of relaxing and of knowing which part of the body will...
Comic Kaleidoscope. One kind of clowning that Dale had not considered was Shakespearean. He had not even read the plays when, in 1966, Director Frank Dunlop called to ask him to do The Winter's Tale at the Edinburgh Festival. "I said, 'No, I can't do that.' He said, 'How the bloody hell do you know you can't do it?' I turned to my wife and told her, This guy I don't even know is swearing at me because I won't do Shakespeare.' " But Shakespeare...
...Dale has been married for 17 years and is the father of four. "My wife Tricia, she's the oldest. The children are Belinda, 16, Murray, 14, Adam, 12, and Toby, who will be 10 this year if we let him." Because of his family, Dale is undecided about the onslaught of American offers since his Scapino triumph. "I am very selfish about family," he says. "I have only another few years until the children leave." Then, too, Director Dunlop is talking about a possible Jim Dale Henry...