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Captain George Mainwaring (/ ˈ m æ n ər ɪ ŋ /) is a fictional Home Guard captain, first portrayed by Arthur Lowe in the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. In the 2016 film he is played by Toby Jones and in the 2019 remake of three missing episodes he is played by Kevin McNally .
Lowe was born on 22 September 1915 in Hayfield, Derbyshire, the only child of Arthur Lowe and his wife, Nan (née Mary Annie Ford). Lowe's father, a tall man known as "Big Arthur", worked for the Great Central Railway, which was absorbed into the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923. [4]
Leadership agrees with Captain Mainwairing, but the men, still without uniforms and arms, are getting restless. The platoon's fortunes take a turn when old campaigner Colonel Square arrives with an offer of rifles and horses. There is a catch; to secure the weapons, Mainwaring must hand over command to Colonel Square.
It's December 1941 and while Corporal Jones and the rest of the platoon hold a very noisy bayonet practice, Captain Mainwaring and Sergeant Wilson are doing paperwork and are discussing the upcoming Ceremonial church parade of all the Home Guard platoons in the area. Mainwaring receives a new officer's cap in the post and hangs it on a nail on ...
Mainwaring asks Wilson (who is dressed as Napoleon) if he has seen Charles Boyer in a film with Greta Garbo, to which Wilson says that he has not. This film becomes an important plot point of the Series 5 episode " A Soldier's Farewell ", where the platoon watches the film at a cinema (for which a reenactment clip is shown) which leads to ...
As Mainwaring tries to demonstrate the use of the platoons new bivouac tents, and the best way to eat a hedgehog, Mr Blewitt objects to their "improper" use of the garden and repeatedly reports them to the irritated Vicar. The scene ends with Pike almost accidentally setting fire to the lawn and getting drenched with water by Mr Blewitt.
From getting stuck in a gate to upsetting the Germans, Private Frank Pike often got himself into predicaments.
The next day, Mainwaring congratulates Jones and Walker on their efforts with the van. Jones tells Mainwaring that it not only serves as a troop carrier and armoured car, but it also serves as an ambulance. Wilson demonstrates with some of the platoon to Mainwaring, their new embarking and disembarking strategy, which interrupts Hodges' ARP ...