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Jim Barclay
South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Jim Barclay (born 23 May 1947) is an English actor and comedian, who played the title role of Jossy Blair in the BBC TV series Jossy's Giants. He was also part of the early Britis…
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Jim Barclay (born 23 May 1947) is an English actor and comedian, who played the title role of Jossy Blair in the BBC TV series Jossy's Giants. He was also part of the early British alternative comedy movement in the 1980s. In 1986, Barclay starred in the popular BBC children's football-based drama Jossy's Giants, playing the eponymous Jossy Blair, a former child football star injured shortly after his debut for Newcastle United, now charged with coaching a local school team to greatness. Barclay also appeared on television a number of times as a comedian, notably performing his stand-up act on Book 'Em and Risk It (Channel 4, 1983), Stomping on the Cat (Channel 4, 1984), and Interference (Channel 4, 1984). As an actor, he appeared in three episodes of the seminal alternative comedy series The Young Ones: (Boring, Flood and Sick). He has appeared in several episodes of both Grange Hill and The Bill.
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2009
A Very British Cult
Movie Percy
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2007
After You've Gone
TV show Plainclothes Officer
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2004
New Tricks
TV show Ivor (Speed Dater)
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2000
Black Books
TV show Trash Customer
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1993
Peak Practice
TV show Martin Lucas
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1992
A Question of Identity
Movie MI5 Technician
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1991
Bloody Sunday
Movie Lord Widgery (voice)
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1991
Secret History
TV show Lord Widgery (voice)
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1990
Jeeves and Wooster
TV show Policeman
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1990
One Foot in the Grave
TV show Mr Davidson
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1989
The Paradise Club
TV show Bernard Webb
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1989
The Nineteenth Hole
TV show The Sergeant
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1986
Jossy's Giants
TV show Jossy Blair
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1985
EastEnders
TV show Doctor Chalmers
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1984
King
Movie Waiter
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1982
Nobody's Hero
TV show Larry
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1982
The Young Ones
TV show Racist Policeman
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1981
The Bagthorpe Saga
TV show Bingo Caller
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1980
Fatal Spring
Movie Patient
- 1980
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1977
The Professionals
TV show Police Driver
