James Hatch was born in the Home Counties of England at a time when local accents and dialects changed from village to village and town to town. With the evacuation of so many children from the cities during the Second World War, he encountered many more sounds and sayings which he was able to understand and imitate. The greatest accolade was made quite recently by a group of seven-year-olds when they asked him when the next "Harry Potter" film was coming out and would he still be playing the wizard, "Dumbledore".

He now resides in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Contact by e-mail at ve7cij@rac.ca