James Smillie

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James Smillie, (born 28 November 1944), also credited variously as Jim Smillie and Jim Smilie, is a Scottish/Australian actor. He has worked in both Britain and Australia in film, extensively on stage, on television, with voice-over and animation work.

Smillie was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His parents emigrated to Australia in the early 1950s when Smillie was still a child. While his family remained there, Smillie returned to the United Kingdom to appear in stage roles in London's West End and would divide his time between the UK and Australia for several decades, working in various television shows, films and stage productions, and as a voice-over artist. On television, he is perhaps best remembered for the roles of lawyer Steve Wilson in Prisoner Cell Block H and Doctor Dan Marshall in the 1980s drama series Return to Eden.^[1]