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Jimmy Edwards (23 March 1920 – 7 July 1988
was a British 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.

Born James Keith O'Neill in Barnes, London,
Edwards served in the Royal Air Force during World
War II, winning the Distinguished Flying Cross. 
His Douglas DC-3|Dakota was shot down at Arnhem in
1944, resulting in plastic surgery — he
disguised it with the huge handlebar moustache
that later became his trademark.

A feature of London theatre in the immediate
post-War years, having previously performed in the
Cambridge Footlights review, Edwards gained wider
exposure as a radio performer, appearing in the
long-running Take It From Here, where he developed
the Glums alongside June Whitfield. Graduatating
to television, his appeared in shows such as the
panel game Does the Team Think?, The Seven Faces
of Jim, as well as guest slots in Make Room for
Daddy and Sykes. Edwards also worked with Eric
Sykes when he acted in the Sykes-penned short
films The Plank (1967) (alongside Tommy Cooper and
Bill Oddie) and Rhubarb (1969) (which also
featured Harry Secombe).

He published his autobiography, Six of the Best,
in 1984, as a follow up to the earlier Take it
From Me. Amongst his outside interests were brass
bands and the handlebar Club, in which all the
members had such moustaches. During the 1970s he
also came out as a homosexual.  Edwards is a
notable graduate of King's College School in
Wimbledon, London.