James Smillie, (born 28 November 1944), also credited variously as Jim Smillie and Jim Smilie, is a Scottish/Australian actor. He has worked in both Britain and Australia in film, extensively on stage, on television, with voice-over and animation work.
Smillie was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His parents emigrated to Australia in the early 1950s when Smillie was still a child. While his family remained there, Smillie returned to the United Kingdom to appear in stage roles in London's West End and would divide his time between the UK and Australia for several decades, working in various television shows, films and stage productions, and as a voice-over artist. On television, he is perhaps best remembered for the roles of lawyer Steve Wilson in Prisoner Cell Block H and Doctor Dan Marshall in the 1980s drama series Return to Eden.[1]
He has also made numerous appearances in a variety of light entertainment shows, including Highway (with Sir Harry Secombe), An Evening with Barry Humphries, the BBC series Battle of the Sexes, A Tribute to Robbie Burns (for Scottish television), Crackerjack, and hosted his own series I Like Music. He was also the original voice of Sky, voicing programmes there for over a decade.[2]
In 2005, Smillie returned to Australia for several years for personal reasons to care for his ageing mother and took a break from the business. His mother died in 2010 (his father died in the 1970s). On his return to the UK, he settled back in Glasgow, and has since appeared in stage productions at the Traverse Theatre, Oran Mor and the Pitlochry Festival Theatre.
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