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Biography
James Booth (19 December 1927- 11 August 2005) was the stage name of David Geeves. He was an English film, stage and television actor and screenwriter. Though handsome enough to play leading roles, versatile enough to play a wide variety of character parts, Booth naturally projected a shifty, wolfish, or unpredictable quality that led inevitably to villainous roles and comedy, usually with a cockney flavor.
He was born in Croydon, Surrey on 19 December 1927, the son of a probation officer. He was educated at Southend Grammar School, which he left aged 17 to join the army. He rose to the rank of captain. He was trained at RADA and he made his first professional appearance as a member of the Old Vic company, before joining Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East in 1958. He married Paula Delaney in 1960 and they had two sons and two daughters. He died in Hadleigh, Essex on 11 August 2005 aged 77.
Selected filmography
Jazzboat (1959)... as Spider Kelly
Let's Get Married (1960)... as Photographer
The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960)... as Alfred Wood
French Dressing (1963)
Sparrows Can't Sing (1963)... as Charlie Gooding
Zulu (1964)... as Private Henry Hook VC
Robbery (1967)... as Inspector George Langdon
The Bliss of Mrs Blossom (1968)... as Ambrose Tuttle
Revenge (1971)... as Jim Radford
Rentadick (1972)
That'll Be The Day (1973)... as Mr MacLaine
Percy's Progress (1974)... as Jeffcott
Brannigan (1975)... as Charlie the Handle
Airport '77 (1977)... as Ralph Crawford
Bad Guys (1986)... as Lord Percy
Twin Peaks (1990) (TV series)... as Ernie Niles
Keeping Mum (2005)... as Mr. Brown
Selected stage work
The Hostage (1958)... as an IRA officer at Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop
A Christmas Carol as Bob Cratchit for the Theatre Workshop
Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be... as Tosher
The Hostage (1959)... as an IRA officer at Wyndham's Theatre
The Fire-Raisers... for the Royal Court Theatre
The Caretaker (1962)... as Mick
The Comedy of Errors (1962)... for the RSC at Stratford-on-Avon
King Lear (1962)... as Edmund for the RSC at Stratford-on-Avon
A Thousand Clowns
Twang! (Shaftesbury (1965)... as Robin Hood
The Entertainer... as Archie Rice
Travesties (1975)... as Tristan Tzara
