The Channel 4 programme, which explored the relationship between Moors murderer Myra Hindley and prisons' campaigner Lord Longford, was the night's biggest winner as British actress Samantha Morton, who played Myra Hindley, took the best supporting TV actress prize.


The winners were announced in a press conference instead of at the usual glittering awards ceremony, because of a strike by the Writers Guild of America, which has been on strike since November 5. Actors said they would not cross picket lines, in support of writers.


Although the Golden Globes are viewed as a form guide for the Oscars, in recent years the awards have thrown up false leads.


For the past three years, none of the Golden Globes' best movie drama winners has gone on to win the best picture Oscar but, as a television drama, 'Longford' would not qualify in the Oscars in any event.


Jim, who was born in 1949 and brought up in the Rasen area, inherited his family's desire to act. His dad Roy was a maker of furniture, while his sculptress mum Dee looked after the kids, of which Jim was the youngest.


Both parents were keen amateur dramatists and founder members of the Lindsey Rural Players, a troupe which sprang from the Holton Players, an acting group set up during WW2 by a community of conscientious objectors in Wickenby.


He made his stage debut at aged four, in his parents' production of 'A Doll's House' and he won a place at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, from where he graduated in 1972.


His first professional job was as Acting Assistant Stage Manager at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park and from here he moved into regional theatre.


In 1976 he made his stage breakthrough playing 12 separate characters in Ken Campbell's 12 hour science fiction epic 'Illuminatus'.