Lucky Jim

Overview

Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get entangled with unexciting but neurotic Margaret Peel, a friend of the Professor's. All-in-all, the pub is the only friendly place to be. His misery is completed at a dreadful weekend gathering of the Welch clan by the arrival of son Bertrand. Not so much that Betrand is loud-mouthed and boorish - which he is - but that he has as companion Christine Callaghan, the sort of marvellous and unattainable woman Jim can only dream about.

Directed by John Boulting

Top cast

Ian Carmichael

Jim Dixon

Terry-Thomas

Bertrand Welch

Hugh Griffith

Professor Welch

Sharon Acker

Christine Callaghan

Jean Anderson

Mrs. Welch

Maureen Connell

Margaret Peel

Clive Morton

Sir Hector Gore-Urquhart

John Welsh

The Principal (as John Welch)

Reginald Beckwith

University Porter

Kenneth Griffith

Cyril Johns

Jeremy Hawk

Bill Atkinson

R

Ronald Cardew

Registrar

Penny Morrell

Miss Wilson

John Cairney

Roberts

Ian Wilson

Glee Singer

C

Charles Lamb

Contractor

H

Henry B. Longhurst

Professor Hutchinson (as Henry Longhurst)

J

Jeremy Longhurst

Waiter

A

Al Fernhead

Singer of "Lucky Jim" (voice)

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