In 2003, Queen Elizabeth II honoured Dale with the MBE, for his work in promoting English children's literature. In the early 1960s, Dale presented Children's Favourites on BBC Radio, for a year. He also holds two Guinness World Records: one for having created and recorded 146 different character voices for one audiobook, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and one for occupying the first six places in the Top Ten Audio Books of America and Canada 2005.ĭale also narrated the ABC drama, Pushing Daisies, as "the fairy tale narrator" He is also the narrator for the Harry Potter video games, and for many of the interactive "extras" on the Harry Potter DVD releases. He has recorded all seven books in the Harry Potter series, and as a narrator he has won two Grammy Awards, seven Grammy Nominations and a record ten Audie Awards including "Audio Book of the Year 2004," "Best Children's Narrator 2001/2005/2007/2008," "Best Children's Audio Book 2005," two Benjamin Franklin Awards from the Independent Book Publishers Association (one of these was in 2001 for Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban) and twenty three Audio File Earphone Awards. To millions of fans in the United States, Jim Dale is the "voice" of Harry Potter. In the 1970s Dale was a member of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre Company.
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He is best known in the United Kingdom for his many appearances in the Carry On series of films and in the US for narrating the Harry Potter audiobook series, for which he received two Grammy Awards, and the ABC series Pushing Daisies. Jim Dale, MBE (born James Smith, 15 August 1935) is an English actor, voice artist, singer and songwriter. He has recorded all seven books in the Harry Potter series, and as a narrator he has won two Grammy Awards, seven Grammy Nominations and a record ten Audie Awards including "Audio Book of the There is more than one author with this name Voice work To millions of fans in the United States, Jim Dale is the "voice" of Harry Potter. There is more than one author with this name Jim Dale, MBE (born James Smith, 15 August 1935) is an English actor, voice artist, singer and songwriter.