In the same year in Carry On Doctor James was shown mainly lying in a hospital bed, owing to his real-life health scare. Meanwhile his success in TV situation comedies continued, now heading the cast, notably in Citizen James , Taxi! The technical manager Melvyn James called for the curtain to close and requested a doctor, whilst the audience unaware of what was happening laughed, believing the events to be part of the show. He was taken to hospital by ambulance, but died about an hour later.
James, aged 62, was cremated and his ashes scattered at Golders Green Crematorium. Later it was rumoured that James's ghost haunted the dressing room he occupied on the night of his death.
After one experience during an engagement there, comedian Les Dawson refused to play the venue again. He never revealed why and would not talk on the subject.
James was an inveterate gambler, and a largely unsuccessful one, losing tens of thousands of pounds over his lifetime.
According to rumour, Sid had an affair with the daughter of an important member of Johannesburg society; his decision to move away from South Africa was partly because he was "advised" to leave due to the possible controversy. Initially, he worked in repertory before being spotted for the nascent British post-war film industry. James made his first credited film appearances in Night Beat and Black Memory , both crime dramas.
In , he appeared in Trapeze as Harry the snake charmer, a circus film which was one of the most successful films of its year, and he played Master Henry in "Outlaw Money", an episode of The Adventures of Robin Hood. He also had a supporting part as a TV advertisement producer in Charlie Chaplin's A King in New York , a non-comic supporting role as a journalist in the science-fiction film Quatermass 2 , and he performed in Hell Drivers all , a film with Stanley Baker.
Set within the Jewish community of London's East End, the series of six episodes was transmitted in February and March , but plans for further episodes were abandoned after a disappointing response. For a while though, it had looked as if his commitment elsewhere might end his work with Tony Hancock , one of the most popular television comedians of the time.
He played a character with his own name but having the invented middle name Balmoral who was a petty criminal and would usually manage to con Hancock in some way, although the character eventually ceased to be Hancock's adversary. With the exception of James, the other regular cast members of the radio series were dropped when the series made the transition to television. His part in the show now greatly increased and many viewers came to think of Hancock and James as a double act.
Feeling the format had become exhausted, Hancock decided to end his professional relationship with James at the end of the sixth television series in Although the two men remained friends, James was upset at his colleague's decision. The experience led to a shift away from the kind of roles for which he had become best known. Eric Hace. Hamburger - The Laughing Cavalier Hide Show Soundtrack 4 credits.
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