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[2] [3] In 2004, Dad's Army came fourth in a BBC poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom. It was placed 13th in a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes, drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000, and voted for by industry professionals. [4] A second feature film of Dad's Army with a different cast was released in 2016. [5]
Arthur Ian Lavender (16 February 1946 – 2 February 2024) was an English stage, film and television actor. He is best known for his role as Private Pike in Dad's Army, a BBC sitcom set during World War II, of which he was the last surviving main cast member.
Dad's Army is a 2016 British war comedy film, based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. It is directed by Oliver Parker and 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 .
Stanley James Carroll Beck (21 February 1929 – 6 August 1973) was an English television actor. He appeared in a number of programmes, but is best known for the role of Private Walker, a cockney spiv, in the BBC sitcom Dad's Army from the show's beginning in 1968 until his sudden death in 1973.
In World War II, a Romanian gentile peasant is denounced by the village gendarme and sent to a concentration camp for Jews where, due to an error, he's drafted into the S.S. 1967 United States The Dirty Dozen: Robert Aldrich: Thriller based on E. M. Nathanson novel. US Army convicts on mission before D-Day: 1967 Italy Dirty Heroes: Dalle ...
John Laurie comment on Dad's Army recalled by Ian Lavender [11] Laurie's first film was the 1930 film Juno and the Paycock , directed by Alfred Hitchcock . Hitchcock next cast him as John the Crofter in 1935's The 39 Steps , a breakthrough role for Laurie in just his third film.
Actors from the television show 'Dad's Army', (L-R) John Le Mesurier, Arthur Lowe and Clive Dunn, holding their pints of being aloft as they celebrate the West End stage production of their show ...
Though using a wheelchair in his later years, he continued to make sporadic appearances on stage in the north west of England discussing his long acting career. He was also a regular at Dad's Army reunions. [5] He continued to live in the Scholes area of his native Wigan until his death, aged 83, in Wigan Infirmary, on 20 June 2009. [6]