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Sorry to hear the news that actor Clive Dunn died yesterday, aged 92 he only recently started to look the age of the old man characters he played since his early years! Who will ever forget his cries of, "Don't panic, don't panic!" whilst frantically panicking... and, of course, "They don't like it up 'em y'know'"..!

Will be sadly missed.. Fond memories watching him on the telly when I was a youngster.. I think he also had a top 10 song in the charts in the 70s also?

Indeed so - see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KJGJRd8pGE - he was only 51 at he time it was recorded!

I remember being shocked as a kid to learn that he was only in his forties when he did "Granddad".

You can't get the song out of your head now, can you.

"That's what we all think of yoooooooo..."

I first came across him in the Fifties as "Mr Crumpet" (not be be confused with Mr Pastry!). Later, he was a regular in "It's a Square World" and also played Mr Justice Cocklecarrot in "The World of Beachcomber". He was one of those people who you would have expected to go on forever.

Barry

A sad loss.

Will never forget him volunteering for everything also!

One of my fav lines was after Jonesy was reprimanded by Captain Mainwaring. Jones turns to Frazer {i think!} and says "he's playing with fire, you know, I control his sausages!"

God Bless

It's an artform in itself to act like a man of advanced years and on top of that make it comedic.

malonezone wrote:It's an artform in itself to act like a man of advanced years and on top of that make it comedic.

I can think of a couple of others who specialised in that - Richard Hearne (the aforementioned Mr Pastry) and Roy Dotrice, who played Albert Haddock in the TV series "Misleading Cases".

Barry

Not forgetting,of course, the great David Jason playing Blanco in Porridge in the 70's - way before Del Boy!

Apparently they are going to remake Dad's Army, with Miranda Hart playing the Mainwaring role! It was in the papers so must be true.