The 'stupid boy' has left us!

[jon1959]

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/feb/05/dads-army-actor-ian-lavender-dies-aged-77

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68204488

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[the other bob wilson]

Re: The 'stupid boy' has left us!

https://www.theguardian.com/film/202...r-dies-aged-77

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68204488

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I think that means the Vicar (Frank Williams?) is the only surviving member of the cast I think. Playing the type of character he did made Ian Lavender seem younger to me than he was - thinking about it, Private Pike was a career high for him wasn’t it.

RIP

[splott parker]

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I think that means the Vicar (Frank Williams?) is the only surviving member of the cast I think. Playing the type of character he did made Ian Lavender seem younger to me than he was - thinking about it, Private Pike was a career high for him wasn’t it.

RIP

Just checked on that out of curiosity, he appeared in 240 episodes of Eastenders. Never watched it so it passed me by.

[fingers]

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I think that means the Vicar (Frank Williams?) is the only surviving member of the cast I think. Playing the type of character he did made Ian Lavender seem younger to me than he was - thinking about it, Private Pike was a career high for him wasn’t it.

RIP

Frank Williams died in 2022. There are sadly no more regular Dads Army characters alive

[pipster]

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Frank Williams died in 2022. There are sadly no more regular Dads Army characters alive

End of an era. I enjoyed watching the Dads army film a few years back with Toby Jones and Catherine Zeta Jones

[the other bob wilson]

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Frank Williams died in 2022. There are sadly no more regular Dads Army characters alive

Missed that, my sister worked in the New Theatre for a while in the eighties and said that although Frank Williams was far from the biggest prima Donna she met, he was the most camp actor she came across while she was there.

[Cleve van Leef]

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Don’t tell him Pike! Who can forget that episode?
R.I.P.

[Maurice Swan]

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Don’t tell him Pike! Who can forget that episode?
R.I.P.

Absolute classic...along with Del boy and the Chandeliers....and the open bar fall......nothing remotely funny like that anymore...today they would probably ban Dad's Army in case it offended the Germans...

You know what is coming but you still cannot help laughing.

[jimmyscoular]

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Damn nostalgia. The hiraeth kicks in strong when I think of those long-ago days snuggled up in the living room, coal fire blaring, with mum and dad, laughing at Capt. Mainwaring's pomposity. So many great characters. The vicar, the air raid warden, the spiv, the veteran of Omdurman, the undertaker, the sissy boy, the disrespected public school boy. What a gift that show was. RIP Pike.

[celever]

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mid 1980's I was doing a degree with the OU. I would go with other students to my tutor's house for a cupper and a chat. My tutor was a student during the war and was put in the Home Guard. We were talking about comedy and I mentioned Dad's Army. His reply - 'It wasn't comedy, it was a documentary'

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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Dad's Army , Porridge , Rising Damp and a few others were very well written , the sarcasm of John Le Mesurier taking the piss out of mainwaring fat tory boy was superb

But Only Fools and Horses , One Foot In The Grave etc were rubbish and very dated now

[Robin Friday's Ghost]

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End of an era. I enjoyed watching the Dads army film a few years back with Toby Jones and Catherine Zeta Jones

It was surprisingly good. Probably not that surprising with Toby Jones in it.

[jon1959]

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mid 1980's I was doing a degree with the OU. I would go with other students to my tutor's house for a cupper and a chat. My tutor was a student during the war and was put in the Home Guard. We were talking about comedy and I mentioned Dad's Army. His reply - 'It wasn't comedy, it was a documentary'

My old grampy was in the Home Guard in Cardiff during the war (he was born 1901) and he hated Dad's Army. For him it was just disrespectful, and a subject that shouldn't be a source of comedy. For the rest of the family, including our granny - his wife - it was hilarious. Apart from Clive Dunn's Corporal Jones - my mam didn't like him (the wrong sort of stupid!).

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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Clive Dunn was a socialist and hated working with Arthur Low who was a raving tory and apparently every bit as pompous and bullying in real life as he was on the screen

[jon1959]

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Clive Dunn was a socialist and hated working with Arthur Low who was a raving tory and apparently every bit as pompous and bullying in real life as he was on the screen

Fair points, but..... 'Grandad'.