[citation needed] Justice returned to the UK in 1927, and became a journalist with Reuters[2] in London alongside Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond.

[3] After a year, he emigrated to Canada, where he worked as an insurance salesman, taught English at a boys' school, became a lumberjack[2] and mined for gold.

On his return to Britain, he served as secretary of the British Ice Hockey Association in the early 1930s[4] and managed the national team at the 1932 European Championships in Berlin to a seventh-place finish.

Special)" competed in the Brighton Speed Trials: "Justice's machine 'Tallulah' noisily expired before the end of the course, and was pushed back to the start by way of the arcade under the terrace.

"[7] The Brighton event was won by Whitney Straight and according to Denis Jenkinson: "Flitting round the periphery of the team was James Robertson Justice."

[citation needed] Under the chairmanship of Leonard Sachs, who was latterly chairman of BBC television's The Good Old Days, the club would stage Victorian music hall nights.

[citation needed] With his domineering personality, bulky physique (he played rugby for Beckenham RFC First XV in the 1924–25 season alongside Johnnie Cradock who would become the partner of 1950s TV chef Fanny), and rich, booming voice, Justice was soon established as a major supporting actor in British comedy films.

[13] His first leading role was as headmaster in the film Vice Versa (1948), written and directed by Peter Ustinov, who cast Justice partly because he had been "a collaborator of my father's at Reuters".

[citation needed] On 31 August 1957, he helped launch the TV station Scottish Television (STV), hosting the channel's first show, This is Scotland.

[citation needed] He appeared in a number of films afterward, albeit in less prominent roles (i.e. playing his best known character of Sir Lancelot Spratt for the final time in Doctor in Trouble (1970), featured only briefly in several scenes).

[citation needed] Justice spoke many languages (possibly up to 20) including English, Spanish, French, Greek, Danish, Russian, Basque, German, Italian, Dutch and Gaelic.

Justice felt so strongly about his Scottish ancestry, he once claimed to have been born in 1905 under a distillery on the Isle of Skye; sources even listed his birthplace as Wigtown, Wigtownshire.

In 1966 Justice appeared as a narrator in five episodes of the BBC children's television series Jackanory, telling stories and legends from Scotland, including those of The Battle of the Birds and The Black Bull of Norroway.