For other people also known as Jimmy Edwards, see James Edwards. Jimmy Edwards DFC (23 March 1920 – 7 July 1988) was an English radio and television comedy actor, best known as Pa Glum in Take It From Here and as the headmaster 'Professor' James Edwards in Whack-O!. Edwards was born James Keith O'Neill in Barnes, London, the son of a professor of mathematics . He was educated at St Paul's Cathedral Choir School, at King's College School in Wimbledon, London, and later at St John's College, Cambridge. He served in the Royal Air Force during World War II, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross. His Dakota was shot down at Arnhem in 1944, resulting in injuries requiring plastic surgery — he disguised the traces with the huge handlebar moustache that later became his trademark. He was a member of the Guinea Pig Club. Edwards was a feature o

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