Biography

Jim Bowen is an English actor, stand-up comedian and TV personality.

He is best known as the long-time host of the ITV game show Bullseye, which he hosted from its beginning in September 1981 until the end of its 14th series in July 1995.

Bowen has also appeared in TV dramas and comedies. He played a crooked accountant in ITV's 1982 drama Muck and Brass, and later guest starred in BBC1's Jonathan Creek and Channel 4's Phoenix Nights.

In 1999, Bowen began presenting on BBC Radio Lancashire.
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His catchphrases: "Super, Smashing, Great", "You can't beat a bit of Bully!", "Let's look at what you could have won" and "Keep out of the black and in to the red, nothing in this game for two in a bed"

Before becoming a stand-up comedian and quiz show host, he was a PE teacher, and then a deputy headmaster at Caton Primary School near Lancaster.

He was born Peter Williams, but he was adopted soon after he was born. His adoptive parents named him James Whittaker. He chose his stage surname as a composite, made up of the B from Brown, his mother's maiden name, followed by his wife's maiden name, Owen.