"theatre, including pantomime, and appeared in several feature films. She died at the age of 95 on 14 February 2015. On 3 August 2008 Pamela Cundell was interviewed, alongside Bill Pertwee and Frank Williams, about her time on ""Dad's Army"" for the 40th anniversary tribute show ""Jonathan Ross Salutes Dad's Army"". She explained that her character Mrs Fox was so called because of the fox fur which she always wore draped over her shoulders. Following her death in 2015, Frank Williams and Ian Lavender are the last surviving major ""Dad's Army"" cast members. Pamela Cundell was involved with amateur theatre"
"by Michael Aspel at the Imperial War Museum. In 2006, he performed in the World Cup song, Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Jurgen Klinsmann? Pertwee died aged 86 on 27 May 2013. He had been ill since the previous year and died peacefully at his home in Cornwall. Three days previously he had attended a parade in Thetford (home of the Dad's Army Museum) where spectators and museum volunteers remarked how frail he was looking. His death and that of Pamela Cundell in 2015 leaves only two main surviving ""Dad's Army"" cast members: Ian Lavender, who played Private"
"Television Legend"". In July 2008 he and other surviving members of the ""Dad's Army"" cast gathered together at the Imperial War Museum on the 40th anniversary of the show's first broadcast in 1968. He also made appearances on ""This Morning"". In 1975 Bill Pertwee took part in the Dad's Army stage show and with Norman Macleod released the Dad's Army single ""Get Out And Get Under The Moon"", with Pertwee's B-side song ""Hooligans"" on EMI. Pertwee appeared in two ""Carry On"" films – ""Carry On Loving"" (1970) and ""Carry On Girls"" (1973). His appearance in ""Carry On at Your Convenience"""
"Pike, and Frank Williams, who played the vicar. In 2011 a portrait of Pertwee, painted by a local artist, was unveiled in the Dad's Army Museum, Thetford where it now resides. Pertwee was patron of the museum and of the DAAS (Dad's Army Appreciation Society) until his death. Pertwee married Marion Macleod, sister of John and Norman Macleod of the Maple Leaf Four, in 1956. They had a son, Jonathan James Pertwee (born in 1966), who has appeared in various TV programmes. Following the death of his wife, he lived in Topsham, Devon. He was awarded an MBE in the"
"loss to the acting profession"". His death, and those of Bill Pertwee in 2013 and Pamela Cundell in 2015, leaves only two surviving major cast members from ""Dad's Army"": Ian Lavender and Frank Williams, the former of whom is the only surviving cast member to have played a character in the platoon. Frank Williams, who played the Vicar in ""Dad's Army"", said Dunn was always ""great fun"" to be around. ""Of course he was so much younger than the part he played,"" he told BBC Radio Four. ""It's very difficult to think of him as an old man really, but"
"Roland Pertwee Roland Pertwee (15 May 1885 – 26 April 1963) was an English playwright, film and television screenwriter, director and actor. He was the father of ""Doctor Who"" actor Jon Pertwee and fellow playwright and screenwriter Michael Pertwee. He was also the second cousin of actor Bill Pertwee and grandfather of actors Sean Pertwee and Dariel Pertwee. From the 1910s to 1950s, he worked as a writer on many British films, providing either the basic story or full screenplay. He was one of numerous writers working on the script of ""A Yank at Oxford"" starring Robert Taylor and Vivien"
"Pertwee was cast in Fox's TV series ""Gotham"", a series presenting an origin for the characters of the Batman franchise. Pertwee portrays Alfred Pennyworth, a tough-as-nails ex-special forces from east London who works as the Wayne family's loyal butler. After Thomas and Martha Wayne are murdered, he becomes guardian and mentor to their young son Bruce – the boy who will one day become Batman. Pertwee is the brother of actress Dariel Pertwee, son of actor Jon Pertwee (of Doctor Who fame), grandson of actor and screenwriter Roland Pertwee, and is more distantly related to actor Bill Pertwee. He married"
"sequel to ""Dad's Army"", in which Wilson had become the bank manager of the Frambourne-on-Sea branch, while Arthur Lowe's character, Captain George Mainwaring, was trying to apply for a loan to renovate the local pier. The death of Lowe in April 1982 meant that only a pilot episode was recorded, and the project was suspended. It was revived in 1982 with Lowe's role replaced by two other ""Dad's Army"" cast members: Pike, played by Ian Lavender, and Hodges, played by Bill Pertwee. A pilot and twelve episodes were subsequently recorded, and broadcast in 1984. Le Mesurier also teamed up with"
"John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn with Bill Pertwee, Robert Aldous with Peter Elliott starring Marty Feldman with John Junkin, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Roland MacLeod starring Wendy Craig and Ronald Hines with Hugo Keith-Johnston, Verena Greenlaw, Jill Riddick and Reginald Marsh The Cliff Adams Singers 1970: Friday 25 December at 6.45 pm introduced by Cilla Black Special guests Bob Hope, Mary Hopkin, Graham Kerr, Jerry Lewis, Nana Mouskouri, Clodagh Rodgers, Frank Sinatra, Jack Warner. Dad's Army (Script by JIMMY PERRY and DAVID CROFT)and starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn, featuring John Laurie, James Beck, Arnold Ridley and"
"the ""Dad's Army"" cast when he took on the role of the elderly butcher whose military service in earlier wars made him the most experienced member of the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard, as well as one of the most decrepit. Jack Haig and David Jason had previously been considered for the role. His relative youth, compared with most of the cast, meant that he was handed much of the physical comedy in the show, which many of the other cast members were no longer capable of. Dunn's staunch socialist beliefs often caused him to fall out with Arthur Lowe, who played"
"Liars"" which are now considered classics and have been anthologized in the book, ""Fisherman's Bounty"", edited by Nick Lyons, and originally published by Crown in 1970, then by Fireside in 1988. Following the cancellation of ""The Grove Family"" in 1957, Pertwee retired from writing. He died in April 1963, three weeks before his 78th birthday. Roland Pertwee Roland Pertwee (15 May 1885 – 26 April 1963) was an English playwright, film and television screenwriter, director and actor. He was the father of ""Doctor Who"" actor Jon Pertwee and fellow playwright and screenwriter Michael Pertwee. He was also the second cousin"
"his varying portrayals of grimacing death in many of his film roles, a skill that led to him being awarded 'best death face' at Bristol Old Vic. Pertwee starred in the 2008 film ""Doomsday"" as Doctor Talbot. His voice is frequently heard in a variety of television commercials, documentaries and video games, including the medieval empire-building computer game """" and futuristic war games ""Killzone"" (as Colonel Gregor Hakha), ""Killzone 2"" (as Colonel Mael Radec) and ""Fire Warrior"" (as Governor Severus). He is also the voice behind the Northeast's tourism advertisement which started broadcasting at the start of 2009. He was"
"Dad's Army Dad's Army is a BBC television sitcom about the British Home Guard during the Second World War. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, and broadcast on the BBC from 1968 to 1977. The sitcom ran for nine series and 80 episodes in total; there was also a radio version based on the television scripts, a feature film and a stage show. The series regularly gained audiences of 18 million viewers, and is still repeated worldwide. The Home Guard consisted of local volunteers otherwise ineligible for military service, either because of age (hence the name ""Dad's"
"Fettle), and ""Carry On Columbus"" (1992, as the Duke of Costa Brava). In 1967 Pertwee had been producer David Croft's choice for the role of Captain George Mainwaring in ""Dad's Army"" but turned it down – possibly because he preferred to extend his role on Broadway in ""There's a Girl in My Soup"". His television career had started off with small parts in children's shows featuring Richard Hearne's Mr Pastry character. Later he made an appearance in ""The Avengers"" episode 'From Venus With Love' (1967) as Brigadier Whitehead, and in the 1970s, he guest-starred as a vicar in ""The Goodies'"""
"to continue his acting by joining the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF). After graduating from drama school in 1952, he joined the Sheffield Rep as assistant stage manager; regular theatre work followed. His work in ""Dad's Army"" came as a result of working at Watford Rep in 1962 under series co-writer Jimmy Perry as the company's actor-manager, in addition to almost 20 years of playing a pantomime dame. His TV appearances were varied, including ""Z-Cars"", ""The Gnomes of Dulwich"", ""The Liver Birds"", 13 episodes of ""Michael Bentine Time"", ""Are You Being Served?"", and the penultimate episode of ""Hi-de-Hi!"" (1988). Due"
"Army"") or by being in professions exempt from conscription. ""Dad's Army"" deals almost exclusively with men over military age, and featured older British actors, including Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Arnold Ridley and John Laurie. Younger members of the cast included Ian Lavender, Clive Dunn (who played the oldest guardsman, Lance Corporal Jones, despite being one of the youngest cast members), and James Beck (who died suddenly during production of the sixth series in 1973). Other regular cast members included Frank Williams as the vicar, and Bill Pertwee as the chief ARP warden. In 2004, ""Dad's Army"" was voted fourth"
"Jon Pertwee John Devon Roland Pertwee (7 July 1919 – 20 May 1996), known professionally as Jon Pertwee, was an English actor, comedian, entertainer and cabaret performer. Pertwee was born into a theatrical family. After service in the Royal Navy and the Naval Intelligence Division during the Second World War, in his early career he worked as a vaudeville comedian, which included performing at the Glasgow Empire Theatre and sharing a bill with Max Wall and Jimmy James. As an actor, Pertwee appeared in many comedy roles, including four films in the ""Carry On"" series. Pertwee became known for spending"
"involving status and superiority themes: in ""Dad's Army"", the social climbing envy of Captain George Mainwaring, to his right-hand man (Sergeant Arthur Wilson) who is of higher status than him; and in Red Dwarf, the working class everyman Dave Lister to the middle class but socially-awkward Arnold Rimmer. However, the most prominent double act is that of an intelligent person and his inferior sidekick, such as Basil and Manuel of ""Fawlty Towers"", Blackadder and Baldrick of ""Blackadder"", or Ted and Father Dougal of the Irish sitcom ""Father Ted"". In recent years, double acts as sitcoms appear to have gone full"
"event the revised cast recorded a 13-episode series. This might have led to more episodes and a second series, had it not been for the sudden death of John Le Mesurier in November 1983. The last ever radio recording of ""Dad's Army"" occurred in 1995, when Jimmy Perry wrote a radio sketch entitled ""The Boy Who Saved England"" for the ""Full Steam A-Hudd"" evening broadcast on Radio 2, transmitted on 3 June 1995 on the occasion of the closure of the BBC's Paris studios in Lower Regent Street. It featured Ian Lavender as Pike, Bill Pertwee as Hodges, Frank Williams"
"Horace Hepplewhite (played by Arthur Lowe); his son, Bertrand (Ian Lavender); station porter Percy Valentine (Kenneth Connor); Mr Bradshaw, the signalman (also played by Kenneth Connor); and station tannoy announcer Gloria Simpkins (Liz Fraser, who was also in the ""Carry On"" films, and appeared in the Dad's Army feature film). The guest cast in some episodes included Bill Pertwee (also from ""Dad's Army"", appearing in episode 11), Roger Delgado (The Master In Doctor Who in the Jon Pertwee era) with the announcer for the programme being Keith Skues. The series was produced by Edward Taylor, and was broadcast on BBC"
"aged 81. Edward Underdown's father owned a Norfolk estate in the Stanford Battle area. It was here that Edward learnt and developed his riding. Before his career as an actor Edward was a gentleman jockey and rode with great aplomb both on the flat and over sticks (see references to his riding career in John Hislop's books). The Norfolk estate is mentioned in Bill Pertwee's book about the making of ""Dad's Army"". One of the Dad's Army episodes was by co-incidence filmed at the estate. By this time the estate was owned by the War Office and nothing was left"
"Janet Davies (actress) Janet Kathleen Davies (14 September 1927 – 22 September 1986) was an English actress best known for her recurring role as Mrs. Pike in the long-running sitcom ""Dad's Army"". Although mainly remembered for her role in ""Dad's Army"", appearing in 30 episodes of the series, she also featured in many other television and film roles including ""Dixon of Dock Green"", ""The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin"", ""All Creatures Great and Small"", ""Last of the Summer Wine"", ""Z-Cars"", ""The Citadel"", ""Pride and Prejudice"", ""Open All Hours"", ""Are You Being Served?"", and in the films ""The Ghost Goes"
"for gunrunners who had ambushed fellow border patrolmen. Joe was a gunfighter who was at times on the wrong side of the law. He joined the Rangers to obtain protection from a sheriff. Chad and Joe tease Reese about his age: he was in his forties. Peter Brown recalled that the producers of the show wanted the three stars to have the same relationship and camaraderie as did the stars of ""Gunga Din""; having Brand, Brown and Smith watch the film three times. The three Rangers are led by Captain Edward Parmalee, played by Philip Carey, later a soap opera"
"Sean Pertwee Sean Pertwee (born 4 June 1964) is an English actor and voice actor. Pertwee attended Teddington School and Sunbury College. Pertwee has played Captain Fitzpatrick in the play ""Tom Jones"", Sergeant Wells in ""Dog Soldiers"", Pilot Smith in ""Event Horizon"", Inspector Lestrade in CBS's ""Elementary"" and Alfred Pennyworth in Fox's ""Gotham"". He is also the narrator of """" and ""Wild Canada"". Pertwee was born in Hammersmith, London, the son of English actor Jon Pertwee (known for his roles in ""The Navy Lark"", the television series ""Doctor Who"" and ""Worzel Gummidge""), and his German second wife Ingeborg Rhoesa. He"
"that also fired a .22 bullet. All sorts of incredible things."" During his time in the Navy, Pertwee woke up one morning after a drunken night out while in port to find a tattoo of a cobra on his right arm. After the war, he made a name for himself as a comedy actor on radio in ""Waterlogged Spa"", alongside Eric Barker, and ""Puffney Post Office"" in which he played a hapless old postman with the catch-phrase ""It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you tears them up."" On 15 November 1948, at the Wood Green Empire, he"
"volunteers otherwise ineligible for military service, either owing to age or by being in professions that were exempt from conscription (""Dad's Army"" deals almost exclusively with the former), and as such the series mainly featured older British actors, including Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Arnold Ridley and John Laurie. Among relative youngsters in the regular cast were Ian Lavender, Clive Dunn (who played the elderly Jones), Frank Williams, James Beck (who died suddenly during production of the programme's sixth series in 1973) and Bill Pertwee. In 2004, ""Dad's Army"" was voted into fourth place in a BBC poll to find"
"Captain Mainwaring Captain George Mainwaring () is a fictional character portrayed by Arthur Lowe in the BBC television sitcom ""Dad's Army"". He is the bank manager and Home Guard platoon commander, in the fictional seaside town of Walmington-on-Sea during the Second World War. He has become widely accepted and regarded as a classic British comic character owing to the popularity of both ""Dad's Army"" and Lowe's portrayal of him. Mainwaring was born in 1885 to Edmund Mainwaring and is a pompous, blustering figure with an overdeveloped sense of his importance, fuelled by his social status in Walmington-on-Sea as the bank"
"Lowe walked in and read for the producers. Lowe, who went on to become most recognised as Captain Mainwaring in sitcom Dad's Army, was already an established actor by the time of his Coronation Street casting, having been in several feature films, but it was his turn as pompous Mr. Swindley that made him a household name in the early 60s. In December 1961, only a year after the show's launch, a strike of the actor's union Equity meant that Lowe, who was not under contract with the show at that point, was forced to leave the series along with"
"oddity — amiable enough but also over-reverential and unlikely to leave a lasting impression"". Dad's Army (2016 film) Dad's Army is a 2016 British war comedy film, based on the BBC television sitcom ""Dad's Army"". Directed by Oliver Parker, set in 1944, after the events depicted in the television series. Catherine Zeta-Jones plays an elegant German spy, posing as a journalist, reporting on the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon. The production design was by Simon Bowles, and the cinematography by Christopher Ross. The film was released on 5 February 2016 in the United Kingdom by Universal Pictures. DVD and Blu-ray released"
"a household name. He played the character until 1966, while continuing film work. In 1968 he took up his most famous role, in ""Dad's Army"", written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft. His success as this character led to considerable television and theatrical work, which put pressure on his health. Lowe's final years were dominated by alcoholism and illness and he died from a stroke on 15 April 1982, aged 66. Lowe was born in Hayfield, Derbyshire, the only child of Arthur Lowe Sr. (1888–1971) and his wife Mary Annie Ford (1885–1981). His father worked for a railway company and"
"of Stars. Ian lives in Woolpit, Suffolk. Ian Lavender Arthur Ian Lavender (born 16 February 1946) is an English stage, film and television actor. He is known for his role as Private Pike in the BBC comedy series ""Dad's Army"". He and Frank Williams are the last surviving major cast members. Arthur Ian Lavender was born in Birmingham, England. He attended Bournville Boys Technical School (later Bournville Grammar-Technical School for Boys) where he appeared in many school dramatic productions. From there he went to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, with the assistance of a grant from the City of"
"Dad's Army (2016 film) Dad's Army is a 2016 British war comedy film, based on the BBC television sitcom ""Dad's Army"". Directed by Oliver Parker, set in 1944, after the events depicted in the television series. Catherine Zeta-Jones plays an elegant German spy, posing as a journalist, reporting on the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon. The production design was by Simon Bowles, and the cinematography by Christopher Ross. The film was released on 5 February 2016 in the United Kingdom by Universal Pictures. DVD and Blu-ray released in the United Kingdom on 13 June 2016. It received mostly negative reviews from"
"was billed as 'The Most Versatile Voice in Radio – Jon (""Tear 'em Up"") Pertwee from the Radio Shows ""Merry-go-Round"" and ""Up the Pole""'. From 1959 to 1977, he had a long-running role as the conniving Chief Petty Officer Pertwee in ""The Navy Lark"" on BBC Radio. He was known as a Danny Kaye look-alike, and his impersonation of Kaye can be seen in the film ""Murder at the Windmill"" (1949). In 1953, he played Charlie Sterling in ""Will Any Gentleman...?"". Future ""Doctor Who"" actor William Hartnell was also in the film; he played Inspector Martin. On stage, he played"