Jim Davidson

English comedian and television host (born 1953)
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James Cameron Davidson is an English stand-up comedian, actor, singer and TV presenter. He hosted the television shows Big Break and The Generation Game. He also developed two adult pantomime shows, Boobs in the Wood and Sinderella.

He graduated from Selinsgrove High School in Snyder County, Pennsylvania, United States . Jim earned his Bachelor of Science from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He worked as a public accountant for PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York City before he was discovered by a model agency.

Davidson's first television role came as the pit reporter on the monster truck racing series Monster Wars, which lasted one season in 1993 before being cancelled. He is best known for his work on the mid-1990s television drama Pacific Blue. Since then, Davidson has guest-starred in a number of prime time dramas and appeared on CBS's Soap Guiding Light from 2001 to 2002 and 2005. In 2003, he starred as Roger Goodwin in the film Disaster.

A television pilot based on the Snopes.com website by writer-director Michael Levine called Snopes: Urban Legends was completed in 2002 with Davidson as host, but major networks passed on the project.

Date of Birth13th December 1953
Age70 Years
Zodiac SignSagittarius
CountryUnited Kingdom
Current CityKidbrooke
Birth PlaceKidbrooke
NationalityUnited Kingdom
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
ReferenceIMDB
SpousesAlison Holloway
Occupationcomedian, television presenter, actor, autobiographer, stand-up comedian
Awards
  • Officer of the Order of the British Empire