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James Ellis (born 15 March 1931, Belfast) is an actor and stage director with a career stretching over sixty years. Originally a stage actor and director in Northern Ireland, he moved to London in the early 1960s. After gaining recognition in Great Britain through the Z-Cars (1962-78) police series on BBC1, he has appeared in many other television and film roles. He is also a translator. Ellis attended the Methodist College Belfast and later studied at Queen's University Belfast and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Ellis began to act with the Belfast-based Ulster Group... MORE

James Ellis (born 15 March 1931, Belfast) is an actor and stage director with a career stretching over sixty years. Originally a stage actor and director in Northern Ireland, he moved to London in the early 1960s. After gaining recognition in Great Britain through the Z-Cars (1962-78) police series on BBC1, he has appeared in many other television and film roles. He is also a translator. Ellis attended the Methodist College Belfast and later studied at Queen's University Belfast and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Ellis began to act with the Belfast-based Ulster Group Theatre in 1952. He first appeared in a revival of the Louis D'Alton (1900-51 play They Got What They Wanted (1947), and he became established as the company's young male lead in such plays as April in Assagh, where he was cast as McFettridge (1954), Is the Priest at Home? as O'Grady (1954), and The Diary of Anne Frank as Peter van Daan (1957). While continuing as an actor in the main company, he also undertook the management of the Group's summer theatre in the seaside town of Larne, north of Belfast. Ellis' most important roles for the Group include the lead role of Christy Mahon in a production of J. LESS