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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.
Semi-regular platoon member Private Sponge, originally played by Colin Bean, appeared as a nonspeaking role for Alex Leam. Mrs. Mainwaring, who was a completely unseen character for the whole of the original series, now has a prominently visible role in the film, where she is portrayed as a chief volunteer of the local Auxiliary Territorial ...
Lowe also played Mainwaring in a radio version of Dad's Army, a stage play and a feature-length film released in 1971. He played Mainwaring's drunken brother Barry Mainwaring, in the series' 1975 Christmas episode "My Brother and I". While Dad's Army was not in production, Lowe's work continued to include stage roles.
He played Captain Mainwaring in the film Dad's Army, released in February 2016. In July, of the same year he starred as the eponymous agent Verloc in the BBC's The Secret Agent, a three-part television adaptation of Joseph Conrad's 1907 novel. [15]
The Radio Times magazine listed Captain Mainwaring's "You stupid boy!" among the 25 greatest put-downs on TV. [1] A 2001 Channel 4 poll ranked Captain Mainwaring 21st on its list of the 100 Greatest TV Characters. [2] [3] In 2004, Dad's Army came fourth in a BBC poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom.
The 1967 Lost in Space episode "Mutiny in Space" features Ronald Long imitating Charles Laughton in the role of spaceship captain "Admiral Zahrk." Morecambe and Wise performed a sketch with Arthur Lowe (who played Captain Mainwaring in Dad's Army) as Captain Bligh.
From getting stuck in a gate to upsetting the Germans, Private Frank Pike often got himself into predicaments.
Hodges shares an intense rivalry with Mainwaring and his platoon, [2] and views them as ineffective old men. In several episodes, [12] Hodges and his co-conspirator, the Verger, attempt to sabotage the platoon's efforts, [1] usually at the command of Captain Square, the platoon leader of the rival Home Guard outfit in the fictional Eastgate. [2]