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Clive Dunn
Actor best known for his old soldier role in the sitcom 'Dad's Army', who also were built with a # 1 chart hit with 'Grandad'
Clive Dunn, the actor, who died on Wednesday aged 92,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], was most widely known as Lance-Corporal Jones, the zealous old soldier in Dad's Army celebrated for that catchphrases "Don't panic!" and "They can't stand up 'em!"
Jones was a guileless, decrepit butcher who frequently reminisced about his service (from the "fuzzy-wuzzies") in Sudan,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], or perhaps in the Great War trenches, and located favour together with his commanding officer, Captain Mainwaring, by dispensing "under-the-counter" bacon and sausages. He was supposed to be a minimum of 70, but when in 1968 Dunn won the role, the actor was only 48. Regardless of the gap, it was a component that he'd effectively been preparing throughout his entire career.
Clive Robert Benjamin Dunn was born on January 9, 1920, working in london. He was educated at Sevenoaks, where he flirted with fascism and joined the Black Shirts. He soon threw in the towel the teenage political infatuation,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], however, and left school at 16 to try to find operate in film. After neglecting to land employment as clapperboard boy, he attended the Italia Conti stage school in London, where he trained for his first stage part.
Performing ran in the blood. His grandfather, Frank Lynne, have been a music hall comedian,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and his mother, Connie Clive, was, as Dunn recalled, "the queen of the seaside concert party". Among Clive's earliest memories was of waiting while his mother "dubbed" Mary Pickford in silent films, standing below happens and shouting the script in an effort at synchronisation using the on-screen action.
Meanwhile Dunn's father, Bobby Dunn, was a singer, comedian and theatrical agent. It was because of Bobby's influence that Clive made his first screen appearance -- as a schoolboy extra within the film Boys Will Be Boys (1936), for the fee of the guinea along with a lunch box from Lyons' Caterers. His first professional stage booking arrived exactly the same year, in the Holborn Empire, in In which the Rainbow Ends, a production by which he excelled like a dancing frog.
By 1937 he had graduated to touring having a production of Peter Pan which starred Anna Neagle as Peter and Dunn as Slightly. He recalled a conversation between among the cast members and also the director, who described the show as: "Terrible. The Lost Boys happen to be smoking throughout the pirate scene, Wendy's being unfaithful with Captain Hook as well as on surface of everything Nana's got the clap."
Dunn later accepted the task of stage manager in the 1939 tour from the Unseen Menace, a detective serial which played at the top of variety billings around the country. The show would be a vehicle for that then famous Terence de Marney,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], star from the Count of Monte Cristo. Unfortunately for the audience, only his voice was heard (on the gramophone record) and the star remained "unseen" through the tour. Unsurprisingly,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], audiences expressed their disapproval, and by the final week of the tour popularity and billing had both declined to date that, as Dunn said, "you needed a bloodhound to find Terence de Marney's name on the bill".
Dunn chose to volunteer for that army. On being told that he could be expected to serve for at least 10 to 12 years,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he thought better from it and instead joined the Volunteer Ambulance Service, based at the Seven Stars Garage about the Goldhawk Road working in london.
Called up in 1940, Dunn joined the 4th Hussars and was eventually posted to Greece. He spent months in the Greek countryside doing his best to avoid the enemy, but was eventually captured by a German patrol.
Dunn remembered two weeks like a prisoner near Corinth with "thousands of starving and dysentery-ridden British, Indians and Palestinians". He was then transported to Austria. "We were packed into cattle trucks like rotten sardines, smelly from diarrhoea and dysentery, with no food, one petrol can for water and something to be used as a latrine."
The journey took 7 days. On arrival at the PoW camp the prisoners gave the guards a summary of their civilian employment. Dunn remembered that whenever so long without food, 70 percent from the 2,000 men claimed to possess been butchers or cooks.
During his time as a PoW, Dunn became unofficial medical orderly,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], camp leader and cleaner. On one occasion, after working hours persuading the camp commander to allow him buy supplies from a village shop, and days compiling a summary of necessities, Dunn returned with everything he had been permitted to purchase: three razor blades and a box of matches.
After liberation, he remained in the army until 1947, when he resumed his acting career in repertory summer shows such as Goody Two Shoes, which ran twice daily in the Palace Theatre Birmingham for 16 weeks. He also made his first television appearance, in the revue Funny Thing This Wireless compered by Frank Muir and starring Vera Lynn. Dunn preferred an active audience, however, and spent the majority of his time working in the Players' Theatre in London, where he perfected a routine based on his assortment of "doddery old codgers".
In 1951 Dunn married Patricia Kenyon, a way model; they were divorced seven years later. In that time Dunn appeared in Buckets and Spades, the very first children's variety show on television. He sang The Galloping Major while cavorting "fully padded and breeched" around the Lime Grove studio to musical accompaniment.
As his career gathered pace Dunn worked with stars for example Peter Ustinov,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Peter Sellers and Tony Hancock. He also appeared in a number of shows including Treasure Island, in which he played Ben Gunn. However it was with the anarchic Michael Bentine that Dunn was most successful, and that he took part in many episodes of the madcap sketch show It's a Square World, which ran from 1960 to 1964.
Dunn was beginning to acquire national recognition, not only for It is a Square World, but in addition for the part of Old Johnson in Granada Television's Bootsie and Snudge, which starred Alfie Bass. At that point Johnson was the most famous of Dunn's repertoire of "old men".
Then, in 1968, David Croft offered the actor the geriatric part to trump all of them. Lance-Corporal Jones would be a part that Dunn was perfectly suited, giving him the chance to make use of the silly walks and "daft voices" he had always been developing in cabaret. Moreover Croft promised Dunn the majority of the "clowning" in the show, and "Jonesie" went on to dominate proceedings with cries of "Permission to talk, Sir!" and an unrelenting number of slapstick "gags", usually involving a bayonet.
A film of the series appeared in 1969, but Dad's Army didn't have a similar appeal on the big screen. None the less, Dunn enjoyed the film, principally while he did his own stunts. He recalled one occasion when he was nearly drowned in 60 gallons of used sump oil, and another when he had to lie along the back of a bucking horse while it floated downstream on the raft. "They told us the horse wasn't frightened" he explained, "but they didn't tell the horse."
Dunn was the subject of This is Your Life in 1971 and was "so flabbergasted" he had a bottle of wine before appearing at the studio. When his mother and his two daughters appeared on screen Dunn asked: "They're awfully pleasant, who're they?"
Dunn was later invited to a party distributed by David Frost and sat alongside Herbie Flowers, a musician with the group Blue Mink. Flowers, also known for writing the loping bass hook for Lou Reed's Walk On The Wild Side, showed an interest in writing an audio lesson for Dunn. The result was Grandad, a ballad of such sickening sentimentality it rocketed instantly to No 1.
Clive Dunn went on to star inside a Grandad revue which toured Britain, culminating inside a variety spot, two times a day, in the Palladium working in london. He recalled that singing Grandad delighted the crowd, but that "with our sketch the show ran 2 hours and twenty minutes, instead of two hours and ten, so it was cut".
Dunn then starred within the short-lived Granada series My Old Man with his wife (he played her father). He also made four series of Grandad for the BBC which were shown on children's television.
Dunn was appointed OBE in 1975, the entire year where the BBC decided that, after seven series, Dad's Army had exhausted its potential. Dunn duly left Britain for a cabaret tour of recent Zealand which was marred, in Rotorua, North Island, he remembered, through the lack of a skilled piano accompanist. The musician provided "looked at the opening bars of Grandad for 10 minutes after which played one note. The incorrect one."
Following the tour Dunn returned towards the circuit of pantomime,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], variety, and stage shows. While best known for popular roles such as Buttons in Cinderella, he also appeared as Frosch the drunken gaoler in Die Fledermaus for the English National Opera, receiving warm reviews.
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