James Dime

{{short description|American actor}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2018}}

{{Infobox actor

| name = James Dime

| image = James Dime - King Kong.jpg

| caption = James Dime in King Kong (1933)

| birth_date = {{birth date|1897|12|19}}

| birth_place =

| death_date = {{death date and age|1981|05|11|1897|12|19}}

| death_place = Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States

| occupation = Actor

| years_active = 1925–1965

}}

James Dime (December 19, 1897 – May 11, 1981), nicknamed Sheik of Spring Street, was a Yugoslavian-American professional boxer and actor known for The Last Hurrah (1958), So Big (1953), Steel Town (1952), Anne of the Indies (1951), Sudan (1945), The Seventh Cross (1944), Crazy House (1943), Stand and Deliver (1928), The King of Kings (1927) as a Roman soldier{{cite book |last=Klepper |first=Robert R. |title=Silent Films, 1877–1996: A Critical Guide to 646 Movies |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jDGSCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA415 |publisher=McFarland & Company |date=January 21, 2005 |page=415 |isbn=9781476604848}} and Keep 'Em Sailing (1942).{{cite web |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/339322%7C77585/James-Dime/ |title=James Dime |access-date=March 24, 2018 |work=Turner Classic Movies}}

He worked mostly in anonymity.{{cite book |last=Freese |first=Gene Scott |title=Hollywood Stunt Performers, 1910s–1970s: A Biographical Dictionary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=10dXAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA75 |publisher=McFarland & Company |edition=2nd |date=April 10, 2014 |page=75 |isbn=9780786476435}} He was injured falling from a tower while shooting The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935). He doubled Monte Blue on Hawk of the Wilderness (1938).