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Co-writers David Croft and Jimmy Perry during a Dad's Army event at Bressingham Steam Museum, May 2011. Originally intended to be called The Fighting Tigers, Dad's Army was based partly on co-writer and creator Jimmy Perry's experiences in the Local Defence Volunteers (LDV, later known as the Home Guard) [7] [8] and highlighted a somewhat forgotten aspect of defence during the Second World War.
To mark Dad's Army ' s fiftieth anniversary, the Royal Mail issued a set of eight stamps in June 2018. These featured the main characters and their catchphrases, including Warden Hodges's "Put that light out!". [26] In addition, several bobbleheads of the Dad's Army characters have been created by Big Chief Studios, including one of Warden ...
Private Godfrey is portrayed by Michael Gambon in the 2016 Dad's Army film.. Bernard Cribbins was set to portray him in a series of re-enactments of otherwise lost episodes of Dad's Army, [6] but had to step away from the project for personal reasons, and was replaced by Timothy West.
Lance Corporal Jack Jones is a fictional Home Guard platoon lance corporal and veteran of the British Empire, [1] first portrayed by Clive Dunn in the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. His catchphrases are "Don't panic!", "Permission to speak, sir?" and "They don't like it up 'em!".
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 ...
Dad's Army is a British television sitcom about the United Kingdom's Home Guard during the Second World War, produced by David Croft, and written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Set in the fictional seaside town of Walmington-on-Sea , located near Eastbourne , it follows a well-meaning platoon of men ineligible for active service as ...
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.
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