Jimmy Hanley

Infobox Person
name=Jimmy Hanley


caption=
birth_date=birth date|1918|10|22|df=y
birth_place=Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK
death_date=death date and age|1970|1|13|1918|10|22|df=y at age Age at date|1918|10|22|1970|01|13
death_place=Leatherhead, Surrey, England, UK

Jimmy Hanley (22 October 1918 - 13 January 1970) was a British actor.

Born in Norwich, Norfolk, Hanley began his career as a child actor before becoming popular in juvenile roles. He was groomed by the Rank Studio system during his teenage years and earned film stardom as a "boy-next-door" type. He later worked on TV, hosting the ITV series "Jim's Inn", which combined advertising messages within the plot of a soap opera.

Hanley was married twice:
*Dinah Sheridan (1942-1952) (three children, including Jenny Hanley and Sir Jeremy Hanley)
*Margaret Avery (1955-1970) (three daughters: Jane, Sarah and Katy)

Hanley died from cancer in Leatherhead, Surrey, aged Age at date|1918|10|22|1970|01|13.

elected filmography

* "Those Were the Days" (1933) (uncredited)
* "Royal Cavalcade" (1935)
* "Boys will be Boys" (1935)
* "Brown on Resolution" (1935)
* "Housemaster" (1938)
* "Gaslight (The Murder in Thornton Square)" (1940)
* "Salute John Citizen" (1942)
* "The Gentle Sex" (1943)
* "Henry V" (1944)
* "For You Alone" (1945)
* "29 Acacia Avenue" (1945)
* "The Captive Heart" (1946)
* "Holiday Camp" (1948)
* "It Always Rains on Sunday" (1948)
* "The Huggetts Abroad" (1949)
* "Don't Ever Leave Me" (1949)
* "Boys in Brown" (1949)
* "The Blue Lamp" (1950)
* "Room to Let" (1950)
* "The Galloping Major" (1951)
* "The Black Rider" (1954)
* "The Deep Blue Sea" (1955)
* "The Lost Continent" (1968)

Television Series

* "Jim's Inn" (1957-1963)Five o'clock clubFuturama

External links

*imdb name|0360085