Jim Vickers-Willis

Jim Vickers-Willis (16 July 1918 – 30 December 2008) was a popular Australian journalist and square dance caller in the 1950s.

He was educated in Melbourne at Brighton Grammar School and Haileybury after the family moved to Australia in 1925.

[citation needed] He worked as a cadet journalist for the Sun Herald, Melbourne[clarify], and during World War II served as an RAAF instructor and Spitfire pilot.

Embarking on a new career, he became the most popular square dance caller of the day, and at one stage one of Australia's highest paid entertainers.

Vickers-Willis and his wife Beth (née Parkinson) were regulars at the River Valley Nudist Holiday Resort near Echuca.