josser

I see now what 'tis all about - what the old josser is after!

Josser in the army.

Lotinga became known for the Josser series of comedy film in which he starred during the 1930s.

Josser on the Farm (1934)

Josser on the River (1932)

It was part of the series of Josser films featuring Lotinga.

Josser Joins the Navy (1932)

It was Lotinga's only film in which he didn't play his trademark character Jimmy Josser.

'Throw the old josser out!'

The ageing Mr. Josser (Wylie Watson) digs into his retirement fund to hire the boy a lawyer.

A Josser is someone who was not born into a circus family, nor married into a circus family, but is in a circus nonetheless.

Doing His Duty (1929) Ernie Lotinga playing "Jimmy Josser"

"The circus is a wonderful fantasy," Nell Stroud, the author of "Josser," a memoir of circus life, once explained.

But as last I was brought before some old josser who was high up in the force, and who seemed to have no end of a head on his shoulders.

Aunt Mary," he said, "who is that funny: DU old josser up in the spi I telpiece, I mean.

Dr. Josser, K.C. (1931)

Nell Gifford published her memoir, Josser: The Secret Life of a Circus Girl, in 1999 and then enjoyed a more public life as an Observer book reviewer.

Josser on the River is a 1932 British comedy film directed by Norman Lee and starring Ernie Lotinga, Molly Lamont and Charles Hickman.

It is very seldom that a Josser is seen in the upper hierarchy of a professional circus, their status is usually seen as lesser than that of someone of circus descent.

Josser on the Farm is a 1934 British comedy film directed by T. Hayes Hunter and starring Ernie Lotinga, Betty Astell and Garry Marsh.

A josser like mrff from the backwoods of Canada would be making all o'ts of bloaer But someone like, you who's been to Eton and Harg w.--.

Her husband was a music hall comedian, singer and theatre proprietor, appearing as Dan Roe from 1898; who appeared in films in the 1920s and 1930s, often as the comic character PC Jimmy Josser.

He worked steadily on the stage, including a tour of South Africa in 1932 before making his film debut in 1934 (in Josser on the Farm, credited as "Wilfrid Hyde White"; he later added the hyphen).

I had thought that Florence had let me into her house through some extraordinary favour to myself; but what kind of a compliment was it, when she and her brother would regularly take in any old josser that happened to be staggering about the street, down on his luck, and give him supper?