Brian James

Brian James (5 July 1918 – 2 November 2009) was an Australian radio, stage, television and film actor. Early life and theatre Brian James was born in Melbourne, the son of the Bishop of St. Arnaud and started his career as a teacher at Ivanhoe Grammar School for four years, in 1933 joining the Royal Australian Navy, after which he was demobilised five years later, and decided to pursue a career as an actor, attending Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London, making his stage debut in 1947 and he featured in the 1952 J.C. Williamson production of Seagulls Over Sorrento. He would also appear in the 1960 TV production of the play. Television and film According to screenwriter Richard Lane "in that first decade of television it seemed that Brian James was everywhere." James appeared in several ABC drama plays in the late 1950s, including Duke In Darkness and Killer in Close-Up: The Wallace Case in 1957, Gaslight, The Small Victory, The Public Prosecutor, and The Governess (all 1958), Crime Passionel, Treason, and The House By The Stable (1959).