Jim Bowen

Acting

Jim Bowen

Born 1937-08-20 · Heswall, Cheshire, England, UK

James Brown Whittaker, known professionally as Jim Bowen, was an English stand-up comedian, actor and television personality. He was the long-time host of the ITV game show Bullseye, which he presented from its beginning in 1981 through to the end of its original run in 1995.

Acting credits

Happy Since I Met You poster
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A play by Victoria Wood. Frances is 28, single and happy, despite ritual interrogation from her family as to why she's not married. Then she meets Jim, and finds she has decisions to make.

Happy Since I Met You

1981

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Jacques Peretti sets out to find out what happened to the game that obsessed him as a kid. In this documentary, he presents an eye-opening account of the sport's heady popularity in the 1970s and 1980s.

Darts Tarts – Welcome to my World

2006

Cinderella: The Shoe Must Go On poster
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Danny La Rue plays Cinderella's wicked stepmother in this grand tradition of a Christmas pantomime.

Cinderella: The Shoe Must Go On

1986

You Can't Beat a Bit of Bully poster
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Narrated by comedian Paddy McGuinness, here is a documentary celebrating 35 years of Bullseye featuring the hosts Jim Bowen and Tony Green with celebrity guests Linda Lusardi, Nick Hancock, Anne Diamond, David Baddiel, Katy Brand, Gary Wilmot, Frank Bruno, Tessa Sanderson and legendary dart players John Lowe, Eric Bristow and Bobby George.

You Can't Beat a Bit of Bully

2015

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Filmed at the Thwaites Empire Theatre, Blackburn. Jim's stand-up is a rollercoaster of side-splitting gags and riotous tales.

Jim Bowen: You Can't Tell These Anymore!

2003

The Gameshow Serial Killer: Police Tapes poster
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Susanna Reid explores a cold case enquiry into one of Britain’s most prolific serial killers. The film reveals the extraordinary game of cat and and mouse that Pembrokeshire detectives waged against the man they suspected had brutally murdered at least four people. He had eluded them for 20 years, but how would new forensics methods, and a fresh team of local detectives, now crack a case that had twice run cold?

The Gameshow Serial Killer: Police Tapes

2018