Jim Barclay

Born: 1947-05-23

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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A Question of Identity

as MI5 Technician
Released: 1992-11-13

Erwin van Haarlem is a man of mystery. Living in London in 1986 and ostensibly a Dutch art...

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Fatal Spring

as Patient
Released: 1980-11-07

'Can you imagine, just try to imagine the numbers of good men who are going to be slaughtered...

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King

as Waiter
Released: 1984-04-03

A man who has had a good life in England wants to retire to Jamaica, but the celebration with...

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The Adventures of Frank: Everybody's Fiddling Something

as Bill
Released: 1980-11-04

Frank, a young lad from Sheffield, leaves home to seek his fortune in London; he finds the big...

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EastEnders

as Doctor Chalmers
First aired: 1985-02-19

The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square...

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Peak Practice

as Martin Lucas
First aired: 1993-05-10

Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town...

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New Tricks

as Ivor (Speed Dater)
First aired: 2004-01-01

New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and...

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The Professionals

as Police Driver
First aired: 1977-12-30

The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their...

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The Young Ones

as Racist Policeman
First aired: 1982-11-09

The misadventures of four lunatic students who live in a shared student house. There's Rick, the...

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The Young Ones

as Policeman in Comic Strip
First aired: 1982-11-09

The misadventures of four lunatic students who live in a shared student house. There's Rick, the...

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The Young Ones

as Policeman in Van
First aired: 1982-11-09

The misadventures of four lunatic students who live in a shared student house. There's Rick, the...

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Black Books

as Trash Customer
First aired: 2000-09-29

Black Books centres around the foul tempered and wildly eccentric bookshop owner Bernard Black....

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Jeeves and Wooster

as Policeman
First aired: 1990-04-22

Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's...

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The Paradise Club

as Bernard Webb
First aired: 1989-09-19

The Paradise Club is a BBC television drama starring Don Henderson and Leslie Grantham as Frank...

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