James Beck
Birthday: Born in 1929-02-21 in Islington, North London, England, UK
Deathday: 1973-08-06
TV Credits
Dad's Army
Character: Private Joe Walker
Introducing the Walmington-On-Sea home guard. During WW2, in a fictional British seaside town, a ragtag group of Home Guard local defense volunteers prepare for an imminent German invasion....
Z-Cars
Character:
Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978....
Romany Jones
Character: Bert Jones
Romany Jones is a British sitcom made by LWT, It starred Arthur Mullard and Queenie Watts as Wally and Lily Briggs and was broadcast between 1973 and 1975, The show was originally designed as a vehicle for James Beck, involving the comic misadventures of two layabout families living on a caravan site. Following the death of Beck in August 1973, aged just 44, Bert and Betty Jones were written out of the series, and Jonathan Cecil and Gay Soper took over the lead roles, playing new neighbours, Je...
Dad's Army: The Missing Episodes
Character: Pte. Joe Walker
A new series of animated Dad's Army (1968) episodes, created using archive audio recordings of original (now lost) early television episodes....
Movie Credits
Dad's Army
Character: Pte. Joe Walker
Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman Cohen, it was filmed between series three and four and was based upon material from the early episodes of the television series. The film told the story of the Home Guard platoon's formation and their subsequent endeavours at a training exercise....
Johnny Flynton
Character: Artie Duane
Johnny Flynton is a 2002 American short film directed and co-written by Lexi Alexander. Johnny Flynton is good at one thing: boxing. He's not too bright, and there's clearly some issues in his past, but what's worse, when he's boxing, his temper flares up. His wife, Samantha, tells him she's pregnant. Meanwhile, he's got an exhibition match with local boy Artie Duane. Johnny lets him get a few punches in to look good, but when Artie starts taking cheap shots, Johnny can't stand by and overreacts...
Hitler: The Comedy Years
Character: Pte. Joe Walker (archive footage) (uncredited)
A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture....
Love Thy Neighbour
Character: Cyril
Two men who are nextdoor neighbors constantly battle it out over seemingly trivial offenses. Their wives, on the other hand, are best of friends. The two couples attempt to win a 'love-thy-neighbor' competition by lying......
Star!
Character: Drunken Sailor (uncredited)
Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness....
I Am a Groupie
Character: Brian
A bored teenage girl decides that she wants to meet rock stars, and the best way to do that is to become a groupie. She finds herself going on the road with a rock band called Opal Butterfly, and soon discovers that being a rock band's groupie isn't as glamorous or exciting as she thought it would be....
A Couple of Beauties
Character: Sidney
A witness to a mob murder hides out in a nightclub dressed in drag....
The Best of Morecambe and Wise
Character: Self (archive footage)
Compilation of sketches featuring the much-loved funnymen Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise. Includes 'Anthony and Cleopatra' with Glenda Jackson, 'Monty in the Bounty' with Arthur Lowe, the famous 'Singing in the Rain' routine, and Eric and Ernie making breakfast to the sound of 'The Stripper'....
There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah
Character: Police Sergeant
A skiving bin gang are on high alert when their new inspector takes an interest....