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The Navy Lark is a 1959 British comedy film directed by Gordon Parry and starring Cecil Parker, Ronald Shiner and Leslie Phillips, Gordon Jackson and Hattie Jacques. [1] It was based on The Navy Lark radio series broadcast on the BBC Light Programme .
The TV Lark was intended to be a replacement for The Navy Lark starting with what would have been the programme's fifth series. This situation came about due to the head of light entertainment believing that "forces"-based humour had become dated and television was the next "big thing", so Lawrie Wyman was ordered to create a show with the same ...
The team took part in a special appearance on stage at the Royal Festival Hall, in the presence of The Queen and The Queen Mother, in celebration of the WRNS 21st anniversary. The 20 minute performance was not broadcast, but a recording survives. Episode released in The Navy Lark Collection: Series 2 Part 2. [3]
John Devon Roland Pertwee (/ ˈ p ɜːr t w iː /; [1] 7 July 1919 – 20 May 1996), known professionally as Jon Pertwee, was an English actor.Born into a theatrical family, he became known as a comedy actor, playing Chief Petty Officer Pertwee (and three other roles) in the BBC Radio sitcom The Navy Lark (1959–1977) and appearing in four films in the Carry On series (1964–1992).
The Navy Lark (film) Now Barabbas; S. Sailor Beware! (1956 film) The Surgeon's Knife; T. Third Time Lucky (1949 film) Tom Brown's Schooldays (1951 film)
He also appeared in the film version of The Navy Lark (1959), the only cast member of the radio series to do so. [20] In 1960, Phillips was cast in Doctor in Love, the fourth film in the Doctor comedy series and the first without Dirk Bogarde. [4] He appeared in two further installments, Doctor in Clover (1966) and Doctor in Trouble (1970). [21]
Richard Caldicot (7 October 1908 – 16 October 1995) was an English actor famed for his role of Commander (later Captain) Povey in the BBC radio series The Navy Lark. [1] He also appeared often on television, memorably as the obstetrician delivering Betty Spencer's baby in Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em.
Price was born in Ruscombe in Berkshire.He had distant Welsh family connections, and was the son of Brigadier-General Thomas Rose Caradoc Price (1875–1949) CMG DSO [1] (who was a great-grandson of Sir Rose Price, 1st Baronet and, through his mother, a descendant of the Baillie baronets [broken anchor] of Polkemmet, near Whitburn, West Lothian) [2] [3] and his wife Dorothy, née Verey ...