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Clive Dunn OBE (born 9 January 1920) is a retired English actor, singer and entertainer best known for his role as Lance-Corporal Jack Jones in the BBC sitcom, Dad's Army.

Born in London, a cousin of actress Gretchen Franklin, Dunn played small film roles from the 1930s onwards. After a break for service in the army in World War II, in the course of which he spent four years in prisoner-of-war camps and labour camps in Austria, he worked for many years in music halls and theatres. In 1956 and 1957, Dunn appeared in The Tony Hancock Show. In the 1960s he made many appearances with Tony Hancock, Michael Bentine, Dora Bryan and Dick Emery, among others, before winning the role of Jones in Dad's Army in 1968.

From an early time his trademark character was that of a doddering old man. This first made an impression in the show Bootsie and Snudge, a spinoff from The Army Game. Dunn played the old dogsbody at a slightly seedy gentlemen's club where the characters Pvt. "Bootsie" Bisley (Alfie...

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• Dad's Army
  Mar 11, 1971

  Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Normen Cohen, it was filmed between series three and four and was based upon material from the early episodes of the television series. The film told the story of the Home Guard platoon's formation and their subsequent endeavours at a training exercise. PrologueOperation Dynamo has just taken place. From the newly conquered French coastline, a Wehrmacht colonel looks out over the English Channel with powerful binoculars. Surveying the White Cliffs of Dover, he spies Godfrey emerging from a lavatory. Godfrey joins the rest of his platoon, who are defiantly waving the Union Jack. The colonel fumes contemptuously; "How will the stupid English ever win?!" The filmIt is 1940. George Mainwaring, the manager of the Walmington-on-Sea branch of Martins Bank is walking to work through the town centre. Arriving at the bank, where he is greeted by a clerk, Miss King, he opens the premises and, after...
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• Clive Dunn's Birthday
  Jan 8, 1920

  Clive Dunn was born in London, Greater London