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Sid James: A Biography
Covering Sid's early years in South Africa and life as a ladies' hairdresser, his obsession with gambling and women, his questioning by Scotland Yard in a murder case, Hancock's Half Hour and the Carry On films, and Sid's death on stage at the age of 63, Cliff Goodwin reveals the amazing truth behing the legend.
Smasher!
Everyone thinks they know Sid James – the Carry On star and womaniser, who drank himself to death after the end of his affair with Barbara Windsor – but despite hundreds of scandalous newspaper exposé s the real story of this complex actor has never been told. Now, this fascinating biography lays bare the life of British entertainment’ s most lovable rogue. Featuring never-before-published correspondence with Sid’ s friends, family and colleagues, and exclusive tales from his inner circle, Robert Ross shows how a Jewish boy from South Africa grew up to become the archetypal wise-cracking cockney, and explores the many facets of a man who was variously a war hero, serial seducer, inveterate gambler and comic icon.
Sid James Biography
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Sid James
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Sid James
Everyone thinks they know Sid James – the Carry On star and womaniser, who drank himself to death after the end of his affair with Barbara Windsor – but despite hundreds of scandalous newspaper exposés the real story of this complex actor has never been told. Now, this fascinating biography lays bare the life of British entertainment’s most lovable rogue. Featuring never-before-published correspondence with Sid’s friends, family and colleagues, and exclusive tales from his inner circle, Robert Ross shows how a Jewish boy from South Africa grew up to become the archetypal wise-cracking cockney, and explores the many facets of a man who was variously a war hero, serial seducer, inveterate gambler and comic icon.
Sid James
Everyone thinks they know the Sid James story – the wife-beating womaniser who seduced his ‘Carry On’ leading lady, Barbara Windsor, and drank himself to death after the affair ended.Sid was certainly a lover of the flesh – be it chorus girls or race horses – but the rumours that have enlivened hundreds of newspaper exposes fail to tell the whole story of this complex actor.At turns a quiet, even-tempered family man and the ultimate lad, this book reveals every facet of his character through never before published correspondence with his family, friends and agent Michael Sullivan, forgotten press interviews and exclusive tales from Sid’s inner circle including Joan Sims (Carry On...
Kissing Sid James
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Sid James & Barbara Windsor!
Sidney "Sid" James, born Solomon Joel Cohen on 8th May 1913, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa, was a character and comic actor born into a middle-class Jewish family in South Africa. Appearing in British movies from 1947, James was cast in many small and supporting roles into the '50s, his profile being raised as Tony Hancock's co-star in Hancock's Half Hour, first in the radio series then following it's adaptation for TV, running from 1954 to 1961.
