";s:4:"text";s:4983:" His son, Steve James is a musician and sound technician who appeared on Fortran 5's debut album "Blues", in October 1991. He and his first wife, Berthe Sadie Delmont, were married in 1936 and a daughter, Elizabeth, was born in 1937; they were divorced in 1940, mainly as a result of his many relationships with other women. Then Reina James got pregnant - now she looks back on a … Sidney James, Actor: Carry On Cleo. They had a son, Steve James, born in 1954, who is now a music producer,James was an inveterate and largely unsuccessful gambler, losing tens of thousands of pounds over his lifetime. “We’d all be introduced at the start. Everything you need to know about violinist and conductor extraordinaire André RieuYours chats to Downton Abbey's Phyllis Logan: ‘I’ve seen how laughter can heal’Find out more about one of the UK's most loved actresses, Sarah LancashireLinda Robson: Loose Women, family, weight loss and moreSue Barker: Tennis career, family life and relationship with husband, Lance TankardBless This House and Carry On might be as synonymous with the Seventies as bell-bottom trousers and Farrah Fawcett, but the legacy of these landmark comedies has definitely lived on, largely thanks to the enduring appeal of one man: Sid James.And one actress who worked with Sid across both these sitcoms is Sally Geeson, most memorably playing Sid’s on-screen daughter, Sally, alongside Robin Stewart and Diana Coupland in Bless This House.“I first met Sid at Thames Television – the place we called the fun factory because it was such a blast – when producer and director, William G Stewart introduced us to talk about a new TV series he was planning called Bless This House,” says Sally. It is perhaps her work in four Carry On comedies for which she will be best remembered, particularly as Nurse Parkin, who fights off an amorous patient played by Sid James … So he was a very stabilising influence for me.”Sally adds that he was also very serious about rehearsing. Every time Sid was announced, you felt the roof was going to come off the studio, people were cheering so much. It is perhaps her work in four Carry On comedies for which she will be best remembered, particularly as Nurse Parkin, who fights off an amorous patient played by Sid James in Carry On Doctor (1967),.That year she also made a guest appearance in the Avengers episode “Dead Man’s Treasure”, and in 1968 she was considered as a replacement for the departing Diana Rigg, but lost out to Linda Thorson.In 1962 there were three uncredited appearances: on the small screen as a showgirl in The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre; and on film in the Norman Wisdom comedy On the Beat, and as another showgirl in the crime drama Locker Sixty Nine.In 1967 she rejoined the Carry On cast in Don’t Lose Your Head, in which she shared scenes with Charles Hawtrey as the Duc de Pommefrites.Her other screen credits that decade included the horror film Corruption (1968), with Peter Cushing and, the following year, School for Unclaimed Girls – “a perfumed zoo for teenage she-cats!” declared the movie poster – as well as playing an outpatients sister in Carry On Again Doctor.Valerie Van Ost launched a new career as a casting agent: one of her first jobs was the 1980 film spin-off of the sitcom George and Mildred. He just stood up and said, ‘Hello, Sal’, and straight away we had a rapport that we knew would work.“Sid was so different in life to many of his characters. “When we filmed the outdoor scenes of Bless This House twice a year on location the whole area used to shut up shop to line the streets because they loved Sid.
He was a lot like Norman Wisdom in that way, who I worked with in the early days – a slick, professional performer, but a real natural clown.
Before moving to Valerie's current city of Twentynine Palms, CA, Valerie lived in Juneau AK and Boulder City NV.
Solomon Joel Cohen, or Sid James as he would later become, was born in 1913 to Jewish parents in Johannesburg. Though on screen Sid would 'tirelessly pursue the latest dolly bird', he was apparently, in reality, a devoted threepipe-a-day family man, always immaculate in his Cecil Gee three-piece suits. All registered in England and Wales. He was a quiet, sophisticated man and while he wasn’t a joker, he could see the funny side to every situation.”He certainly could - Sid was known for his distinctive laugh!Sally tells how all 72 episodes of Bless This House were filmed in front of a studio audience. He survives her.We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism.We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future. The experience led to a shift away from the kind of roles for which he had become best known.
