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Jim Dale's Birth Card: The Jack of Clubs

1980 Best Actor in a Musical (Barnum)

Born August 15, 1935

The Creative Messenger

A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Tony Award.

In the record

Jim Dale (born James Smith; 15 August 1935) is an English actor, narrator, singer and songwriter. The birth-card coordinate for August 15 is the Jack of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1980 Best Actor in a Musical (Barnum) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

The Jack of Clubs coordinate

Jim Dale's birthday maps to the Jack of Clubs (The Creative Messenger). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Tony Award and not a verdict on Jim Dale. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You bring a new angle and you let someone pressure-test it before it ships.

Live Jack of Clubs meaning page

Jim Dale in the public record

In the United Kingdom he is known as a pop singer of the 1950s who became a leading actor at the National Theatre. He is one of the only surviving main actors of the Carry On films. Dale was also a leading actor on Broadway, where he had roles in Scapino, Barnum (for which he won a Tony Award), Candide and Me and My Girl. He also narrated the U.S. audiobooks for all seven novels in the Harry Potter series, for which he won two Grammy Awards. Dale appeared in the ABC series Pushing Daisies (2007–2009); he also starred in the Disney film Pete's Dragon (1977). He was nominated for a BAFTA Award for portraying a young Spike Milligan in Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1973). As a lyricist, Dale was nominated for both an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for the song "Georgy Girl", the theme for the 1966 film of the same title.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Jim Dale (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the cards

Cards in Jim Dale's fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)

The planetary ruling card for this birthday is the birth card itself, J♣, so it adds no further cards to the path.

Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.

No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for J♣, 10♥, J♦, 9♦, 7♠, 2♣, K♣, 4♥, 4♦, 2♠, 8♥. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast a Tony.

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FAQ

What is Jim Dale's birth card?
The Jack of Clubs. August 15 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
Does a birth card predict a Tony Award?
No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.
Where do Jim Dale's dates come from?
Birth date 1935-08-15 is the day-precision date on Jim Dale's Wikipedia person page, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Wikipedia dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Tony Award wins come from the Wikipedia leading-acting lists, which record the Tony Awards. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Sources: Tony Awards (tonyawards.com) + Wikipedia leading-acting lists + Wikidata CC0 (Q1689081) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Jim Dale). Birth date 1935-08-15 is the Wikipedia person-page day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).