Lucky Jim (1957)

A Rollicking Lampoon of University High- and Low-Life!

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.

Cast (19)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

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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