Personal Info
Birth date
1942-07-25 (82 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]
Also known as
-Oscar James
Biography
Oscar James (born 25 July 1942) is a Trinidadian actor, who is based in the United Kingdom. He is best known for his role in EastEnders as Tony Carpenter, for over two years. James resides in north London. James was born in Trinidad, and had a poor upbringing. He came to the United Kingdom in the 1950s. He initially worked as a taxi driver, a dish-washer and also a gymnast, but he always had aspirations to be an entertainer and followed his dream by becoming an actor. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Filmography
EastEnders
4.118
Overview:
The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.Minder
6.8
Overview:
Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.Tales of the Unexpected
6.7
Overview:
A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.The Gentle Touch
6.9
Overview:
The Gentle Touch is a British police drama television series made by London Weekend Television for ITV which ran from 1980-1984. Commencing transmission on 11 April 1980, the series is notable for being the first British series to feature a female police detective as its leading character, ahead of the similarly themed BBC series Juliet Bravo by four months.The Goodies
7.5
Overview:
A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and situation comedy.UFO
7.6
Overview:
A secret, high-technology international agency called SHADO defends Earth from alien invaders.Harry Hill's TV Burp
6.4
Overview:
The big-collared comic gives his own spin on TV clips from recent programmes, plus contributions from a set of regular charactersThe Professionals
7.43
Overview:
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.Casualty
6.1
Overview:
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.The Expert
10
Overview:
The Expert is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1976. The series starred Marius Goring as Dr. John Hardy, a pathologist working for the Home Office and was essentially a police procedural drama, with Hardy bringing his forensic knowledge to solve various cases. The Expert was created and produced by Gerard Glaister. The series was also one of the first BBC dramas to be made in colour, and throughout its four series had numerous high quality guest appearances by actors such as John Carson, Peter Copley, Rachel Kempson, Peter Vaughan, Clive Swift, Geoffrey Palmer, Peter Barkworth, Jean Marsh, Ray Brooks, George Sewell, Anthony Valentine, Bernard Lee, Lee Montague, Geoffrey Bayldon, Mike Pratt, Edward Fox, André Morell, Brian Blessed, Nigel Stock, Philip Madoc and Warren Clarke.Lovejoy
7.3
Overview:
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.Return of the Saint
7
Overview:
Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts.The Bill
6.7
Overview:
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.Surgical Spirit
7
Overview:
Surgical spirit is a British situation-comedy television series starring Nichola McAuliffe and Duncan Preston that was broadcast from 14 April 1989 through to 7 July 1995. It was written by Annie Bruce, Raymond Dixon, Graeme Garden, Peter Learmouth, Paul McKenzie and Annie Wood. It was made for the ITV network by Humphrey Barclay Productions for Granada Television.Crocodile Shoes
7.2
Overview:
Crocodile Shoes is a British 7-part television series made by the BBC and screened on BBC One in 1994. The series was written by and starred Jimmy Nail as a factory worker who becomes a country and western singer. A sequel, Crocodile Shoes II followed in 1996 and the theme tune "Country Boy" was a hit for Nail too.The Line of Beauty
6.545
Overview:
Crawl deep under the skin of Thatcher's Britain, seen through the eyes and experiences of a young, gay man, from the euphoria of falling in love to the tragedy of AIDS. A story of love, class, sex and money.Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
7
Overview:
A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.Carry On Laughing
5.8
Overview:
A series of half-hour stories, mostly historical romps, presented by the Carry On team. Starring Sid James, Barbara Windsor, Joan Sims and other regulars from the films.Afterlife
7.359
Overview:
University lecturer Robert Bridge becomes involved in a series of supernatural events surrounding medium Alison Mundy.Out
7
Overview:
Frank Ross returns from an eight-year prison sentence for a robbery that was thwarted because somebody 'grassed' the gang. Nobody knows who put the finger on him, but Ross is determined to find out and seeks revenge on those who betrayed him. Little by little, Ross pieces together the trail that leads to a dramatic conclusion.Shoestring
6.8
Overview:
Shoestring was a BBC television show set in Bristol. It featured a private detective with his own show on Radio West, the local radio station. The programme ran between 30 September 1979 and 21 December 1980, in two series with 21 one hour-long episodes. Star Trevor Eve decided not to return to the role after two series, as he wanted to diversify into theatre roles, so the same production team changed the format to be based in Jersey and created Bergerac, also about a detective returning to work after a bad period in his life.The Crust
NYR
Overview:
The Crust is a British television series about a pizza parlour which was originally shown by CBBC.Bottle Boys
8
Overview:
Bottle Boys is a British sitcom which ran for two series on ITV in 1984 and 1985. Starring Robin Askwith as football-mad milkman Dave Deacon, the series mined comedy of the broadest sort from randy Dave's amorous adventures, in a style familiar to viewers from the Confessions films. However, as well as the sexual innuendo of his earlier big-screen adventures, Askwith was equally likely to find himself embroiled in more off-the-wall exploits, and found himself at various points in the series dressing up as a cow, inadvertently engaged to Sharon the secretary, and meeting then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The part of Dave Deacon was originally written for Jim Davidson, who was by this time already expanding into sitcom territory with Up the Elephant and Round the Castle, also on ITV. It was future BBC controller John Birt, during his tenure at London Weekend Television, who suggested that Askwith take the part.1990
6
Overview:
The series is set in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Department of Public Control (PCD), a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population's civil liberties. Edward Woodward plays Jim Kyle, a journalist on the last independent newspaper called The Star, who turns renegade and begins to fight the PCD covertly. The officials of the PCD, in turn, try to provide proof of Kyle's subversive activities.If Only
7
Overview:
After his impetuous musician girlfriend, Samantha, dies in an accident shortly after they had a fight (and nearly broke up), Ian Wyndham, a grief-stricken British businessman living in London gets a chance to relive the day all over again, in the hope of changing the events that led up to her getting killed.Hardware
5.9
Overview:
Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Through a series of coincidences, the cyborg's head ends up in the home of a sculptress as a bizarre Christmas present from her boyfriend. Once inside its new home, the cyborg promptly reconstructs the rest of its body using a variety of household utensils and proceeds to go on a murderous rampage.Darling
6.724
Overview:
The swinging London, early sixties. Beautiful but shallow, Diana Scott is a professional advertising model, a failed actress, a vocationally bored woman, who toys with the affections of several men while gaining fame and fortune.Water
5.9
Overview:
The British governor of a tiny island nation in the Caribbean Commonwealth finds his idyllic existence thrown into chaos when an American drilling company finds a huge source of natural mineral water there.Peter Pan
6
Overview:
Peter Pan is a 1976 musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, produced for television as part of the Hallmark Hall of Fame, starring Mia Farrow as Peter Pan and Danny Kaye as Captain Hook, and with Sir John Gielgud narrating. Julie Andrews sang one of the songs, "Once Upon a Bedtime", off-camera over the opening credits. It aired on NBC at 7:30pm on Sunday, December 12, 1976, capping off the program's 25th year on the air. The program did not use the score written for the highly successful Mary Martin version which had previously been televised many times on NBC. Instead, it featured 14 new and now forgotten songs, written for the production by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse.Acting
2007Deadmeat as Detective Peters
2007Oh Happy Day as Storekeeper
2006The Line of Beauty (2 Episodes) as Brentford
2006Shoot the Messenger as Rodney Pascale
2005Afterlife (1 Episode) as Unknown
2005Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as Shopkeeper
2005The Crust (1 Episode) as Bernard
2004If Only as Superintendent
2004Elmina’s Kitchen as Baygee
2002Harry Hill's TV Burp (1 Episode) as Unknown
2001My Kingdom as Desmond
2000U.S. Seals as Wilkins
1996The Final Passage as Earl
1994Crocodile Shoes (1 Episode) as Unknown
1994Fathers, Sons and Unholy Ghosts as Martin's father
1990Hardware as Chief
1989Surgical Spirit (1 Episode) as Mr. Worrell
1987Three Kinds of Heat as Unle Joe
1986Casualty (1 Episode) as Franklyn Ashford
1986Lovejoy (1 Episode) as Duke Garvey
1985EastEnders (1732, 178 Episode) as Unknown, Tony Carpenter
1985Water as Miguel
1984The Bill (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1984Bottle Boys (13 Episodes) as Unknown
1984Last Night at the Alamo as Dub
1981Student Bodies as Football Coach
1980The Gentle Touch (1 Episode) as Unknown
1979Minder (1 Episode) as Dave
1979Shoestring (1 Episode) as Unknown
1979Jaguar Lives! as Collins
1979Tales of the Unexpected (1 Episode) as William - Fisherman
1978Victims of Apartheid as Obed
1978Return of the Saint (1 Episode) as Mombasa
1978Out (1 Episode) as Bernie Machen
1977The Professionals (1 Episode) as Topaz
1977Dummy as Unknown
1977Black Joy as Jomo
19771990 (1 Episode) as Unknown
1976Peter Pan as Pirate #1
1976Pressure as Colin
1975Carry On Laughing (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1971Gumshoe as Danny Azinge
1970The Goodies (1 Episode) as Unknown
1970All the Right Noises as Guard
1970The Breaking of Bumbo as 2nd Student
1970UFO (1 Episode) as Plain Clothes Officer
1970Carry On Up the Jungle as Nosha Warrior
1968The Expert (1 Episode) as Solomon Kingsley
1966Naked Evil as Dupree
1965Darling as Black Man on Stairs (uncredited)
1965Never Mention Murder as Hospital Orderly (uncredited)