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Born 30 March 1940 Middleton Died 29 January 2011
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Jimmie Chinn was an actor, teacher and most notably, a playwright.
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Personal Info
Jimmie was born in Middleton, Lancashire on 30 March 1940 and spent his early years in Oldham and Manchester. He moved to London in 1959 where he trained as an actor at the RADA and worked in many aspects of the theatre. His short and undistinguished career as an actor led him eventually to train as a teacher at Whitelands College, Putney, where he gained an honours degree in English and Drama. He taught and became a senior teacher and housemaster at Dormers Wells School in Middlesex from 1979 until he became a full-time writer in 1984.
Work as a playwright
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Most of his work for the theatre was premiered by Teddington Theatre Club at Hampton Court Theatre or on the fringe circuit.
His full-length plays and one-act plays (**) include.....
His television credits include Emmerdale, Coronation Street, and A Different Way Home. Jimmie Chinn was diagnosed with COPD in 2000 and he died from pneumonia on 29 January 2011.
Straight and Narrow
On 18 March 1992 he had his first West End production. The play was Straight and Narrow which opened at the Wyndham's Theatre starring Nicholas Lyndhurst, Carmel McSharry and Neil Dalglish. It later moved to the Aldwych Theatre. The play was originally performed with his local theatre group, Theatre West Four in 1987, directed by Jo Burnett.