Bill Pertwee

At 86 years old, Bill Pertwee has this physical status:

William Desmond Anthony Pertwee (21 July 1926 – 27 May 2013) was an English comedy comedian.

In the sitcom Dad's Army, he played the antagonist Chief ARP Warden Hodges.

Early life

Pertwee was born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, on July 21. 1926, Pertwee died. Born in 1978, Bill Pertwee, the youngest of three boys of a Brazilian mother and an English father who traveled the country as a salesman until he became sick and died in 1938. During Pertwee's childhood, the family migrated home many times, including in Hereford, Glasbury, Colnbrook, Newbury, Erith, Belvedere, Blackheath, Storrington, Westcliff-on-Sea, Wilmington, and Worthing.

His education was disrupted by the changes, and he attended many schools, including an independent convent school, a small independent school, and Frensham Heights School in Surrey, Dartford Technical College, and Southend College.

Perpetwee left school during the Second World War and worked for a company that made Spitfire cannons. Following a drowning accident, he was declared unfit for military service, but he was a member of the Air Cadets. He later worked as an accounts clerk on the Stock Exchange and as a salesman for Burberry in London.

Personal life

In 1955, Pertwee married Marion Macleod, the niece of John and Norman Macleod of the Maple Leaf Four. Jonathan James Pertwee (born in 1966) was their son, who has appeared in various television shows.

He lived in Topsham, Devon, following his wife's death. In the Queen's 2007 Birthday Honours list for his services to charities, he was given an MBE. He was vice president of the "Railway Ramblers" and a member of the Entertainment Artists' Benevolent Fund ('The Royal Variety Charity') and was born in 1976 as a member of the Grand Order of Water Rats.

Following a leaflet drop over Dortmund, Germany, Pertwee's brother James Raymond "Jiggy" Pertwee died in a crash above Bank Foot near Ingleby Greenhow in North Yorkshire in June 1941.

He was related to Michael Pertwee and Jon Pertwee as the second cousin of Michael's and Jon Pertwee's father, screenwriter and actor Roland Pertwee. Ian Lavender, a godfather of one of his Dad's Army co-stars, was he was his godfather.

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Entertainment career

Pertwee appeared in the radio comedy series Beyond Our Ken (1959–1964) and Round the Horne (1965–1966). He was also a warm-up act for several television shows.

Warden Hodges' role in Dad's Army was his most well-known, as well as the radio version It Sticks Out Half a Mile, which took place after the war. Pertwee was president of the Dad's Army Appreciation Society and the author of the book "The Making of a Television Legend."

On the 40th anniversary of the show's first broadcast in 1968, he and other veteran members of the Dad's Army cast gathered together at the Imperial War Museum in July 2008. He also appeared on This Morning. He appeared in the Dad's Army stage show in 1975 and was a member of Persuade, and Norman Macleod performed "Get Out And Get Under The Moon" with Pertwee's B-side song "Hooligans" on EMI.

Pertwee appeared in two Carry On Films – Carry On Loving (1970) and Carry On Girls (1973). His appearance in Carry On at Your Convenience (1971) was cut from the final film. Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (1971), Psychomania (1973), as postmen in the film versions of Love Thy Neighbour and Man About the House (1975), What's Up Nurse (1975).

(1977) and What's Up Superdoc!

(1978)Pertwee appeared on television in the last episode of It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1981) and an episode of Hi-de-Hi! (1986).

He played PC Wilson in You Rang, M'Lord?

Jimmy Perry and David Croft's (1988–1993), a new creation.

In 1999, Pertwee was surprised by Michael Aspel at the Imperial War Museum with the subject "This Is Your Life." "Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Jurgen Klinsmann?" performed in the World Cup song "Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Jurgen Klinsmann?"

Pertwee died on May 27, 2013, aged 86. He had been sick since the previous year and died peacefully at his Cornwall home. He had been to a parade in Thetford (home of the Dad's Army Museum), where spectators and museum workers remarked how frail he was looking three days earlier. Ian Lavender, the only living father's Army cast member, died as a result of his father's and Frank Williams' deaths in 2015 and 2022.

In 2011, a portrait of Pertwee, created by a local artist, was unveiled in the Dad's Army Museum, Thetford, where it now stands. Pertwee lived at the museum and with the DAAS (Dad's Army Appreciation Society) until his death.

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