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	After a series of affairs<ref>{{cite news\| title=Lawyers may take starring role in West End show The Golden Voice\| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-news/10217102/Lawyers-may-take-starring-role-in-West-End-show-The-Golden-Voice.html\| last=Walker\| first=Tim\| date=2 August 2013\| newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]}}</ref> and the drowning of his four-year-old son in 1949<ref>Hull Daily Mail - Tuesday 21 June 1949 Page 3 Col.3 James Norvil Justice, four-year-old son of James Robertson Justice, Scottish film actor, was found drowned last night in the River Test, near his home at Lower Mill House, Whitchurch, Hampshire.</ref> near his watermill home in [[Whitchurch, Hampshire\|Whitchurch]], Hampshire, Justice separated from his wife; she eventually [[divorced]] him in 1968. He met actress [[Irene von Meyendorff]] in 1960 on the set of ''[[The Ambassador (1960 film)\|The Ambassador]]'', and they remained together, eventually marrying in 1975 three days before he died.		After a series of affairs<ref>{{cite news\| title=Lawyers may take starring role in West End show The Golden Voice\| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-news/10217102/Lawyers-may-take-starring-role-in-West-End-show-The-Golden-Voice.html\| last=Walker\| first=Tim\| date=2 August 2013\| newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]}}</ref> and the drowning of his four-year-old son in 1949<ref>Hull Daily Mail - Tuesday 21 June 1949 Page 3 Col.3 James Norvil Justice, four-year-old son of James Robertson Justice, Scottish film actor, was found drowned last night in the River Test, near his home at Lower Mill House, Whitchurch, Hampshire.</ref> near his watermill home in [[Whitchurch, Hampshire\|Whitchurch]], Hampshire, Justice separated from his wife; she eventually [[divorced]] him in 1968. He met actress [[Irene von Meyendorff]] in 1960 on the set of ''[[The Ambassador (1960 film)\|The Ambassador]]'', and they remained together, eventually marrying in 1975 three days before he died.

	Not long after completing his work for ''[[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]]'' in 1968, Justice suffered a severe stroke, which signalled the beginning of the end for his career. He appeared in a number of films afterward, albeit in less prominent roles (i.e. playing his best known character of Sir Lancelot Spratt for the final time in ''[[Doctor in Trouble]]'' (1970), featured only briefly in several scenes). He suffered a further series of strokes, which left him unable to work. He was declared [[bankrupt]] in 1970,<ref>{{cite news\| title=James Robertson Justice\| date=2 December 1970\| work=[[Evening Express (Scotland)\|Aberdeen Evening Express]]\| page=1}}</ref> and he died penniless in 1975. His ashes were buried in a [[north Scotland]] moor near his former residence in the Highland village of [[Spinningdale]].~~{{citation needed\|date=March 2020}}~~		Not long after completing his work for ''[[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]]'' in 1968, Justice suffered a severe stroke, which signalled the beginning of the end for his career. He appeared in a number of films afterward, albeit in less prominent roles (i.e. playing his best known character of Sir Lancelot Spratt for the final time in ''[[Doctor in Trouble]]'' (1970), featured only briefly in several scenes). He suffered a further series of strokes, which left him unable to work. He was declared [[bankrupt]] in 1970,<ref>{{cite news\| title=James Robertson Justice\| date=2 December 1970\| work=[[Evening Express (Scotland)\|Aberdeen Evening Express]]\| page=1}}</ref> and he died penniless in 1975. His ashes were buried in a [[north Scotland]] moor near his former residence in the Highland village of [[Spinningdale]].

	A biography entitled ''James Robertson Justice—What's The Bleeding Time?'' (referring to a joke in the first Doctor film) was published by Tomahawk Press on 3 March 2008.<ref>{{cite book\| title=James Robertson Justice: What's the Bleeding Time?: A Biography\| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iX5AGQAACAAJ&q=what%27s+the+bleeding+time\| first1=James\| last1=Hogg\| first2=Robert\| last2=Sellers\| first3=Howard\| last3=Watson\| date=3 March 2008\| publisher=Tomahawk Press\| isbn=978-0953192670}}</ref> It was written by James Hogg, [[Robert Sellers (author)\|Robert Sellers]] and Howard Watson.		A biography entitled ''James Robertson Justice—What's The Bleeding Time?'' (referring to a joke in the first Doctor film) was published by Tomahawk Press on 3 March 2008.<ref>{{cite book\| title=James Robertson Justice: What's the Bleeding Time?: A Biography\| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iX5AGQAACAAJ&q=what%27s+the+bleeding+time\| first1=James\| last1=Hogg\| first2=Robert\| last2=Sellers\| first3=Howard\| last3=Watson\| date=3 March 2008\| publisher=Tomahawk Press\| isbn=978-0953192670}}</ref> It was written by James Hogg, [[Robert Sellers (author)\|Robert Sellers]] and Howard Watson.

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	*{{Screenonline name\|874006\|James Robertson Justice}}		*{{Screenonline name\|874006\|James Robertson Justice}}
	*[https://web.archive.org/web/20101225032543/http://www.britmovie.co.uk/actors/James-Robertson-Justice Britmovie – James Robertson Justice]		*[https://web.archive.org/web/20101225032543/http://www.britmovie.co.uk/actors/James-Robertson-Justice Britmovie – James Robertson Justice]
	*[http://www.scottish-places.info/people/famousfirst170.html Gazetteer for Scotland James Robertson Justice]		*[http://www.scottish-places.info/people/famousfirst170.html Gazetteer for Scotland James Robertson Justice]

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	~~{{succession box\|title=[[Rector of the University of Edinburgh]]\|before=[[Sydney Smith (forensic expert)\|Sir Sydney A. Smith]]\|after=[[Jo Grimond]]\|years=1957–1960}}~~
	~~{{succession box\|title=[[Rector of the University of Edinburgh]]\|before=[[Jo Grimond]]\|after=[[Malcolm Muggeridge]]\|years=1963–1966}}~~
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	\| birth_place = [[w:Lee, London\|Lee]], [[w:London\|London]], England		\| birth_place = [[w:Lee, London\|Lee]], [[w:London\|London]], England
	\| death_date = {{Death date and age\|1975\|7\|2\|1907\|6\|15\|df=yes}}		\| death_date = {{Death date and age\|1975\|7\|2\|1907\|6\|15\|df=yes}}
	\| death_place = [[w:Romsey\|Romsey]], [[w:Hampshire]], England		\| death_place = [[w:Romsey\|Romsey]], [[w:Hampshire\|Hampshire]], England
	\| restingplace = Cremated; ashes buried in [[w:Spinningdale\|Spinningdale]], Sutherland, Scotland		\| restingplace = Cremated; ashes buried in [[w:Spinningdale\|Spinningdale]], Sutherland, Scotland
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	\| birth_name = James Norval Harald Justice		\| birth_name = James Norval Harald Justice
	\| birth_date = {{Birth date\|1907\|6\|15\|df=yes}}		\| birth_date = {{Birth date\|1907\|6\|15\|df=yes}}
	\| birth_place = [[w:Lee, London\|Lee]], [[w:London]], England		\| birth_place = [[w:Lee, London\|Lee]], [[w:London\|London]], England
	\| death_date = {{Death date and age\|1975\|7\|2\|1907\|6\|15\|df=yes}}		\| death_date = {{Death date and age\|1975\|7\|2\|1907\|6\|15\|df=yes}}
	\| death_place = [[w:Romsey]], [[w:Hampshire]], England		\| death_place = [[w:Romsey\|Romsey]], [[w:Hampshire]], England
	\| restingplace = Cremated; ashes buried in [[w:Spinningdale]], Sutherland, Scotland		\| restingplace = Cremated; ashes buried in [[w:Spinningdale\|Spinningdale]], Sutherland, Scotland
	\| othername = Seamus Mor na Feaseg~~<br/>~~James R. Justice~~<br/>~~James Robertson~~<br/>~~James Robertson-Justice		\| othername = {{plainlist\|
			*Seamus Mor na Feaseg
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	\| occupation = Actor		\| occupation = Actor
	\| years_active = 1944–1971		\| years_active = 1944–1971
	\| children = James Norval Justice<br >(1945–1949)		\| children = James Norval Justice<br >(1945–1949)
	\| spouse = {{plainlist}}		\| spouse = {{plainlist\|
	*{{Marriage\|Dillys Ethel Hayden\|1941\|1968\|end=divorced}}		*{{Marriage\|Dillys Ethel Hayden\|1941\|1968\|end=divorced}}
	*{{Marriage\|[[w:Irene von Meyendorff\|Irene von Meyendorff]]\|1975}}}}		*{{Marriage\|[[w:Irene von Meyendorff\|Irene von Meyendorff]]\|1975}}}}

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	\| name = James Robertson Justice		\| name = James Robertson Justice
	\| image = James Robertson Justice ~~in The Lady Says No (1950)~~.jpg		\| image = James Robertson Justice.jpg
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	\| caption = ~~Justice in ''[[The Lady Says No]]'' (1952)~~
	\| birth_name = James Norval Harald Justice		\| birth_name = James Norval Harald Justice
	\| birth_date = {{Birth date\|1907\|6\|15\|df=yes}}		\| birth_date = {{Birth date\|1907\|6\|15\|df=yes}}
	\| birth_place = [[Lee, London\|Lee]], [[London]], England		\| birth_place = [[w:Lee, London\|Lee]], [[w:London]], England
	\| death_date = {{Death date and age\|1975\|7\|2\|1907\|6\|15\|df=yes}}		\| death_date = {{Death date and age\|1975\|7\|2\|1907\|6\|15\|df=yes}}
	\| death_place = [[Romsey]], [[Hampshire]], England		\| death_place = [[w:Romsey]], [[w:Hampshire]], England
	\| restingplace = Cremated; ashes buried in [[Spinningdale]], Sutherland, Scotland		\| restingplace = Cremated; ashes buried in [[w:Spinningdale]], Sutherland, Scotland
	\| othername = Seamus Mor na Feaseg<br/>James R. Justice<br/>James Robertson<br/>James Robertson-Justice		\| othername = Seamus Mor na Feaseg<br/>James R. Justice<br/>James Robertson<br/>James Robertson-Justice
	\| occupation = Actor		\| occupation = Actor
	\| years_active = 1944–1971		\| years_active = 1944–1971
	\| children = James Norval Justice<br >(1945–1949)		\| children = James Norval Justice<br >(1945–1949)
	\| spouse = {{Marriage\|Dillys Ethel Hayden\|1941\|1968\|end=divorced}}~~<br/>~~{{Marriage\|[[Irene von Meyendorff]]\|1975}}		\| spouse = {{plainlist}}
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{{Short description|British actor}}
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| caption = Justice in ''[[The Lady Says No]]'' (1952)
| birth_name = James Norval Harald Justice
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| birth_place = [[Lee, London|Lee]], [[London]], England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1975|7|2|1907|6|15|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Romsey]], [[Hampshire]], England
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'''James Robertson Justice''' (born '''James Norval Harald Justice'''; 15 June 1907 – 2 July 1975) was a British actor. He is best remembered for portraying pompous authority figures in comedies including each of the seven films in the ''[[Doctor (film series)|Doctor]]'' series. He also co-starred with [[Gregory Peck]] in several adventure movies, notably ''[[The Guns of Navarone (film)|The Guns of Navarone]]''. Born in south east [[London]], he exaggerated his Scottish roots but was prominent in Scottish public life, helping to launch [[Scottish Television]] (STV) and serving as Rector of the [[University of Edinburgh]].

==Biography==
The son of [[Aberdeen]]-born mining engineer James Norval Justice and Edith (née Burgess),<ref>{{Cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-49503|isbn = 978-0-19-861412-8|doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/49503|title = The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|year = 2004}}</ref> James Robertson Justice was born James Norval Harald Justice in [[Lee, London|Lee]], a suburb of [[Lewisham]] in [[South London|South East London]], in 1907. Educated at [[Marlborough College]] in [[Wiltshire]], Justice studied science at [[University College London]], but left after a year and became a geology student at the [[University of Bonn]], where he again left after just a year. He spoke many languages (possibly up to 20) including [[English language|English]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[French language|French]], [[Greek language|Greek]], [[Danish language|Danish]], [[Russian language|Russian]], [[German language|German]], [[Italian language|Italian]], [[Dutch language|Dutch]] and [[Scottish Gaelic language|Gaelic]].<ref name="morley">[[Sheridan Morley]], "Justice, James Norval Harald Robertson (1907–1975)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/49503, Retrieved 12 Nov 2007]</ref>

===After university===

Justice returned to the UK in 1927, and became a [[journalist]] with [[Reuters]] in London alongside [[Ian Fleming]], the creator of [[James Bond]]. After a year, he emigrated to [[Canada]], where he worked as an insurance salesman, taught English at a boys' school, became a [[lumberjack]] and mined for gold. He came back to Britain penniless, working his passage on a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] freighter washing dishes in the ship's galley to pay his fare.

On his return to Britain, he served as secretary of the [[British Ice Hockey Association]] in the early 1930s<ref>''Motor Sport'', December 1933, Page 57.</ref> and managed the [[Great Britain national ice hockey team|national team]] at the 1932 [[Ice Hockey World Championships|European Championships]] in [[Berlin]] to a seventh-place finish. He combined his administrative duties in 1931–32 with a season as goalie with the [[Wembley Lions|London Lions]].<ref>[http://www.azhockey.com/Ju.htm#James%20Robertson%20Justice A to Z Encyclopaedia of Ice Hockey entry]. Retrieved 1 November 2007. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071019003416/http://azhockey.com/Ju.htm#James%20Robertson%20Justice |date=19 October 2007 }}</ref>

Justice was entered in a [[Wolseley Motors|Wolseley]] [[Wolseley Hornet six|Hornet]] Special in the [[British Automobile Racing Club|JCC]] Thousand Mile Race at [[Brooklands]] on 3 and 4 May 1932. The car was unplaced.<ref>''Motor Sport'', July 1932, Pages 415–419.</ref> The following year a "J. Justice (J.A.P. Special)" competed in the [[Brighton Speed Trials]]: "Justice's machine "Tallulah" noisily expired before the end of the course, and was pushed back to the start by way of the arcade under the terrace."<ref>''Motor Sport'', October 1933, Page 540.</ref> The Brighton event was won by [[Whitney Straight]] and according to [[Denis Jenkinson]]: "Flitting round the periphery of the team was James Robertson Justice." In February 1934, Straight took delivery of a new Maserati: "Jimmy Justice went off to Italy to collect the first car which was 8CM number 3011."<ref>Denis Jenkinson, ''Maserati 3011: The story of a racing car'', Page 11, Aries Press, 1987.</ref> ''[[Motor Sport (magazine)|Motor Sport]]'' reported in 1963: "We remember him at [[Lewes Speed Trials|Lewes]] with a G.N. and in a Relay Race with a Wolseley Hornet."<ref>''Motor Sport'', February 1963, Page 82.</ref>

Justice left Britain again to become a policeman for the [[League of Nations]] in the [[Saar (League of Nations)|Territory of the Saar Basin]] (a region of Germany occupied and governed by France and Germany under a League of Nations mandate originating in the [[Treaty of Versailles]]). After the [[Nazi]]s came to power, he fought in the [[Spanish Civil War]] on the [[Second Spanish Republic|Republican]] side. It was here that he first grew his signature bushy beard, which he retained throughout his career. On returning to Britain, he joined the [[Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve]], but after sustaining a wound in 1943 (thought to be [[Shrapnel shell|shrapnel]] from a German shell), he was honourably discharged from the service with a pension.

===Love of Scotland===
He married nurse Dillys Hayden (1914–1984) in [[Chelsea, London|Chelsea]] in 1941, and they had a son named James. On his return from the war, he reinvented himself with stronger [[Scotland|Scottish]] roots, dispensing with his two middle names and acquiring the new middle name Robertson out of his habit of wearing Robertson [[tartan]]. Feeling strongly about his Scottish ancestry, he once claimed to have been born in 1905 under a distillery on the [[Isle of Skye]]; many sources listed his birthplace as [[Wigtown]], [[Wigtownshire]].<ref>{{cite news| last=Pendreigh| first=Brian| title='Scots actor Justice outed as Londoner| newspaper=Scotland on Sunday| date=18 November 2007| url=http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm?id=1819412007| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071121201026/http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm?id=1819412007| url-status=dead| archive-date=21 November 2007}}</ref> He lived in Wigtown at Orchardton House between 1946 and 1950. He unsuccessfully contested the [[North Angus and Mearns (UK Parliament constituency)|North Angus and Mearns constituency]] for the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] in the [[1950 United Kingdom general election|1950 general election]].<ref name="morley"/>

With his earnings from the film ''[[Doctor in the House]]'' (1954), Justice purchased a cottage in the Scottish Highlands village of [[Spinningdale]]. In 1966 Justice appeared as a narrator in [[List of Jackanory episodes|five episodes]] of the BBC children's television series ''[[Jackanory]]'' telling stories and legends from Scotland, including those of [[The Battle of the Birds]] and [[Black Bull of Norroway|The Black Bull of Norroway]].

===Acting career===
Justice pursued acting after joining the [[Players' Theatre]] in London. Under the chairmanship of [[Leonard Sachs]], who was latterly chairman of [[BBC]] television's ''[[The Good Old Days (UK TV series)|The Good Old Days]],'' the club would stage [[Victorian era|Victorian]] [[music hall]] nights. Substituting for Sachs one night, Justice was recommended for the film ''[[For Those in Peril (1944 film)|For Those in Peril]]'' (1944).

With his domineering personality, bulky physique (he played rugby for [[Beckenham RFC]] First XV in the 1924–25 season alongside [[Johnnie Cradock]] who would become the partner of 1950s TV chef [[Fanny Cradock|Fanny]]), and rich, booming voice, Justice was soon established as a major supporting actor in British comedy films.<ref>{{cite web| title=Beckenham|url=https://www.beckenhamrfc.com/a/history-8532.html |access-date=30 June 2018}}</ref> His first leading role was as [[headmaster]] in the film ''[[Vice Versa (1948 film)|Vice Versa]]'' (1948), written and directed by [[Peter Ustinov]], who cast Justice partly because he had been "a collaborator of my father's at Reuters." Justice was the demanding surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt in the "Doctor" series of films of the 1950s and 1960s, beginning with ''[[Doctor in the House]]'' (1954), playing the role for which he is possibly best remembered. In his films he was sometimes credited as ''Seumas Mòr na Feusag'' (Scottish Gaelic, translation: Big James with the Beard), ''James R. Justice'', ''James Robertson'' or ''James Robertson-Justice''.

On 31 August 1957, he helped launch the TV station [[Scottish Television]] (STV), hosting the channel's first show, ''This is Scotland''.<ref>{{youtube|i7UqDUeWn14|This Is Scotland: 31 August 1957}}</ref> From 1957 to 1960, and again from 1963 to 1966, he was [[Rector of the University of Edinburgh]].<ref>{{cite web| title=Full list of Rectors to date| url=http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/faqs/parqsutz.shtml#Rec1| access-date=1 November 2007| publisher=The University of Edinburgh Information Services}}</ref> In the war film ''[[The Guns of Navarone (film)|The Guns of Navarone]]'' (1961), Robertson Justice had a co-starring role as well as narrating the story.

He appeared in four films with ''Navarone'' co-star [[Gregory Peck]], including ''[[Captain Horatio Hornblower]]'' (1951), and ''[[Moby Dick (1956 film)|Moby Dick]]'' (1956), in which Robertson Justice played the one-armed sea captain also attacked by the white whale. In the film, Robertson Justice's character tries to befriend Captain Ahab (played by Peck), but is amazed and repulsed by Ahab's obsessive pursuit of Moby Dick.

===Later life===
After a series of affairs<ref>{{cite news| title=Lawyers may take starring role in West End show The Golden Voice| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-news/10217102/Lawyers-may-take-starring-role-in-West-End-show-The-Golden-Voice.html| last=Walker| first=Tim| date=2 August 2013| newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]}}</ref> and the drowning of his four-year-old son in 1949<ref>Hull Daily Mail - Tuesday 21 June 1949 Page 3 Col.3 James Norvil Justice, four-year-old son of James Robertson Justice, Scottish film actor, was found drowned last night in the River Test, near his home at Lower Mill House, Whitchurch, Hampshire.</ref> near his watermill home in [[Whitchurch, Hampshire|Whitchurch]], Hampshire, Justice separated from his wife; she eventually [[divorced]] him in 1968. He met actress [[Irene von Meyendorff]] in 1960 on the set of ''[[The Ambassador (1960 film)|The Ambassador]]'', and they remained together, eventually marrying in 1975 three days before he died.

Not long after completing his work for ''[[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]]'' in 1968, Justice suffered a severe stroke, which signalled the beginning of the end for his career. He appeared in a number of films afterward, albeit in less prominent roles (i.e. playing his best known character of Sir Lancelot Spratt for the final time in ''[[Doctor in Trouble]]'' (1970), featured only briefly in several scenes). He suffered a further series of strokes, which left him unable to work. He was declared [[bankrupt]] in 1970,<ref>{{cite news| title=James Robertson Justice| date=2 December 1970| work=[[Evening Express (Scotland)|Aberdeen Evening Express]]| page=1}}</ref> and he died penniless in 1975. His ashes were buried in a [[north Scotland]] moor near his former residence in the Highland village of [[Spinningdale]].{{citation needed|date=March 2020}}

A biography entitled ''James Robertson Justice—What's The Bleeding Time?'' (referring to a joke in the first Doctor film) was published by Tomahawk Press on 3 March 2008.<ref>{{cite book| title=James Robertson Justice: What's the Bleeding Time?: A Biography| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iX5AGQAACAAJ&q=what%27s+the+bleeding+time| first1=James| last1=Hogg| first2=Robert| last2=Sellers| first3=Howard| last3=Watson| date=3 March 2008| publisher=Tomahawk Press| isbn=978-0953192670}}</ref> It was written by James Hogg, [[Robert Sellers (author)|Robert Sellers]] and Howard Watson.

==Filmography==
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* ''[[For Those in Peril (1944 film)|For Those in Peril]]'' (1944, first screen appearance) as Operation Room Officer (uncredited)
* ''[[Champagne Charlie (1944 film)|Champagne Charlie]]'' (1944) as Patron (uncredited)
* ''[[Fiddlers Three (1944 film)|Fiddlers Three]]'' (1944) as Centurion of the 8th Legion
* ''[[Appointment with Crime]]'' (1946) as Prison Governor
* ''[[Hungry Hill (film)|Hungry Hill]]'' (1947) as Minor Role (uncredited)
* ''[[Vice Versa (1948 film)|Vice Versa]]'' (1948) as Dr. Grimstone
* ''[[My Brother Jonathan]]'' (1948) as Eugene Dakers
* ''[[Against the Wind (film)|Against the Wind]]'' (1948) as Ackerman
* ''[[Quartet (1948 film)|Quartet]]'' (1948) as Branksome (segment "The Facts of Life")
* ''[[Scott of the Antarctic (film)|Scott of the Antarctic]]'' (1948) as Taff Evans / P.O. (Taff) Evans, R.N.
* ''[[Stop Press Girl]]'' (1949) as Arthur Peters
* ''[[Poet's Pub]]'' (1949) as Prof. Benbow
* ''[[Private Angelo (film)|Private Angelo]]'' (1949) as Feste
* ''[[Prelude to Fame]]'' (1950) as Sir Arthur Harold
* ''[[Christopher Columbus (1949 film)|Christopher Columbus]]'' (1949) as [[Martín Alonso Pinzón]]
* ''[[Whisky Galore! (1949 film)|Whisky Galore!]]'' (1949) as Dr. Maclaren
* ''[[The Black Rose]]'' (1950) as Simeon Beautrie
* ''[[My Daughter Joy]]'' (1950) as Prof. Keval
* ''[[The Magnet (film)|The Magnet]]'' (1950) as Tramp (as Seamus Mor Na Feasag)
* ''[[Blackmailed (1951 film)|Blackmailed]]'' (1951) as Mr. Sine
* ''[[Pool of London (film)|Pool of London]]'' (1951) as Engine Room Officer Trotter
* ''[[Captain Horatio Hornblower]]'' (1951) as Seaman Quist
* ''[[David and Bathsheba (film)|David and Bathsheba]]'' (1951) as Abishai
* ''[[Anne of the Indies]]'' (1951) as Red Dougal
* ''[[The Lady Says No]]'' (1952) as Matthew Huntington Hatch
* ''[[The Story of Robin Hood (film)|The Story of Robin Hood]]'' (1952) as [[Little John]]
* ''[[Les Misérables (1952 film)|Les Misérables]]'' (1952) as Robert
* ''[[Miss Robin Hood]]'' (1952) as The Macalister
* ''[[The Voice of Merrill]]'' (1952) as Jonathan Roche
* ''[[The Sword and the Rose]]'' (1953) as King Henry VIII
* ''[[Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue]]'' (1954) as John Campbell, Duke of Argyll
* ''[[Doctor in the House]]'' (1954) as Sir Lancelot Spratt
* ''[[Out of the Clouds]]'' (1955) as Captain Brent
* ''[[Above Us the Waves]]'' (1955) as Admiral Ryder
* ''[[Land of the Pharaohs]]'' (1955) as Vashtar, the Master Architect
* ''[[Doctor at Sea (film)|Doctor at Sea]]'' (1955) as Captain Hogg
* ''[[An Alligator Named Daisy]]'' (1955) as Sir James Colebrook
* ''[[Storm Over the Nile]]'' (1955) as General Burroughs
* ''[[Moby Dick (1956 film)|Moby Dick]]'' (1956) as Captain Boomer
* ''[[The Iron Petticoat]]'' (1956) as Col. Sklamoff
* ''[[Checkpoint (1956 film)|Checkpoint]]'' (1956) as Warren Ingram
* ''[[Doctor at Large (film)|Doctor at Large]]'' (1957) as Sir Lancelot Spratt
* ''[[Souvenir d'Italie]]'' (1957) (uncredited)
* ''[[The Living Idol]]'' (1957) as Doctor Alfred Stoner
* ''[[Campbell's Kingdom]]'' (1957) as James MacDonald
* ''[[Seven Thunders (film)|Seven Thunders]]'' (1957) as Dr. Martout
* ''[[Thérèse Étienne]]'' (1958) as Anton Muller
* ''[[Orders to Kill]]'' (1958) as Naval Commander
* ''[[Upstairs and Downstairs]]'' (1959) as Mansfield
* ''[[Doctor in Love]]'' (1960) as Sir Lancelot Spratt
* ''[[A French Mistress]]'' (1960) as Robert Martin / 'Bow Wow'
* ''[[The Ambassador (1960 film)|The Ambassador]]'' (1960) as Robert Morrison
* ''[[Foxhole in Cairo]]'' (1960) as Capt. Robertson
* ''[[Very Important Person (film)|Very Important Person]]'' (1961) as Sir Ernest Pease KBE FRS / Lt. Farrow RN
* ''[[The Guns of Navarone (film)|The Guns of Navarone]]'' (1961) as Commodore Jensen / Prologue Narrated by (voice)
* ''[[Raising the Wind (1961 film)|Raising the Wind]]'' (1961) as Sir Benjamin Boyd
* ''[[Murder, She Said]]'' (1961) as Ackenthorpe
* ''[[A Pair of Briefs]]'' (1962) as Mr. Justice Haddon
* ''[[Crooks Anonymous]]'' (1962) as Sir Harvey Russelrod
* ''[[Guns of Darkness]]'' (1962) as Hugo Bryant
* ''{{Interlanguage link multi|Le Repos du guerrier|fr|3=Le Repos du guerrier (film)|lt=Le Repos du guerrier}}'' (1962) as Katov - a sculptor
* ''[[The Fast Lady]]'' (1962) as Charles Chingford
* ''[[The Lightship (1963 film)|The Lightship]]'' (1963) as Kapitän Freytag
* ''[[Mystery Submarine (1963 film)|Mystery Submarine]]'' (1963) as RAdm. Rainbird
* ''[[Doctor in Distress (film)|Doctor in Distress]]'' (1963) as Sir Lancelot Spratt
* ''[[Dr. Crippen (1962 film)|Dr. Crippen]]'' (1963) as Captain McKenzie
* ''[[Father Came Too!]]'' (1963) as Sir Beverley Grant
* ''[[Up from the Beach]]'' (1965) as British beachmaster
* ''[[Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines]]'' (1965) as Narrator (voice)
* ''[[You Must Be Joking! (1965 film)|You Must Be Joking!]]'' (1965) as Librarian
* ''[[The Face of Fu Manchu]]'' (1965) as Sir Charles
* ''[[Doctor in Clover]]'' (1966) as Sir Lancelot Spratt
* ''[[Long Legs, Long Fingers]]'' (1966) as Sir Hammond
* ''[[The Trygon Factor]]'' (1966) as Sir John (English version, voice)
* ''[[Two Weeks in September]]'' (1967) as McClintock
* ''[[Hell Is Empty]]'' (1967) as Angus McGee
* ''[[Histoires extraordinaires]]'' (1968) as Countess' Adivisor (segment "Metzengerstein")
* ''[[Mayerling (1968 film)|Mayerling]]'' (1968) as Prince of Wales
* ''[[Chitty Chitty Bang Bang]]'' (1968) as Lord Scrumptious
* ''[[Zeta One]]'' (1969) as Maj. Bourdon
* ''[[Some Will, Some Won't]]'' (1970) as Sir Charles Robson
* ''[[Doctor in Trouble]]'' (1970) as Sir Lancelot Spratt
* ''[[The Massacre of Glencoe]]'' (1971) as MacIan (final film role)
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==References==
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==External links==
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*{{IMDb name|0433150}}
*{{Screenonline name|874006|James Robertson Justice}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20101225032543/http://www.britmovie.co.uk/actors/James-Robertson-Justice Britmovie – James Robertson Justice]
*[http://www.scottish-places.info/people/famousfirst170.html Gazetteer for Scotland James Robertson Justice]

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