Jimmy Godden (actor)

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| birth_place = Maidstone, Kent
United Kingdom

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| occupation = Film actor

| yearsactive = 1930–1941

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Jimmy Godden (11 August 1879 – 5 March 1955) was a British film actor.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090116111015/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/170065 BFI.org]

He was educated at Christ's Hospital and was in the Civil Service before becoming a concert pianist. Godden later turned to the stage and made his debut in pantomime at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth, then going on to the London West End doing a number of comedies and revues.

Filmography

Big Business (1930) – Oppenheimer
The Wife's Family (1931) – Doc Knott
The Last Coupon (1932) – Geordie Bates
His Wife's Mother (1932) – Mr. Trout
Money Talks (1932) – Joe Bell
For the Love of Mike (1932) – Henry Miller
Crime on the Hill (1933) – Landlord
Happy (1933) – Brummelberg
Their Night Out (1933) – Archibald Bunting
Meet My Sister (1933) – Pogson
Hawley's of High Street (1933) – Mayor
The Outcast (1934) – Harry
Those Were the Days (1934) – Pat Maloney
The Luck of a Sailor (1934) – Betz
Sometimes Good (1934) – Colonel Mortimer
Give Her a Ring (1934) – Uncle Rifkin
The Great Defender (1934) – Inspector Holmes
My Song Goes Round the World (1934) – Manager
Radio Parade of 1935 (1934) – Vere de V. de Vere
Mister Cinders (1934) – Perkins (uncredited)
Dandy Dick (1935) – Creecher (uncredited)
Royal Cavalcade (1935) – Harry
The Student's Romance (1935) – Bit part
Lend Me Your Wife (1935) – Uncle Jerry
I Give My Heart (1935) – Minor role (uncredited)
Music Hath Charms (1935) – Bit Part (uncredited)
It's a Bet (1935) – Mayor
King of the Castle (1936) – Bailiff
Living Dangerously (1936) – Member of Council
Once in a Million (1936) – Plume
Someone at the Door (1936) – Police Constable O'Brien
The Marriage of Corbal (1936) – Minor Role (uncredited)
A Star Fell from Heaven (1936) – Undetermined role (uncredited)
Keep Your Seats, Please (1936) – X-Ray Doctor (uncredited)
Feather Your Nest (1937) – Mr. Higgins
Sing as You Swing (1937)
The Dance of Death (1938)
Glamour Girl (1938) – Arnold
Father O'Nine (1938) – Colonel Briggs
Spare a Copper (1940) – Manager (uncredited)
The Farmer's Wife (1941) – Sergeant (Last appearance)

References

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Category:1879 births

Category:1955 deaths

Category:English male film actors

Category:Male actors from Maidstone

Category:People educated at Christ's Hospital

Category:20th-century English male actors