Clive Dunn
Clive Dunn was born in London, England, UK on January 9th, 1920 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 92, Clive Dunn biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Clive Robert Benjamin Dunn (born in January 1920 – September 6, 2012) was an English actor, comedian, writer, and singer.
In the BBC sitcom Dad's Army, he played Lance Corporal Jones.
Early life
Dunn, the son of actor parents and cousin of actress Gretchen Franklin, was born in Brixton, south London. Dunn was educated at Sevenoaks School, an independent boys' academy (now coeducational). Dunn attended the independent Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London after leaving school.
In the 1930s, he appeared in a few small film roles. He appeared in Boys Will Be Boys (1935), and Good Morning, Boys (1937), while still attending school. He was the stage manager for a touring production entitled The Unseen Menace in 1939. However, the detective performance was not a success because Terence De Marney, the show's billed actor, did not appear on stage, and his dialog was not triggered by a gramophone recording.
Personal life
In 1951, fashion model Patricia Kenyon married in London. In 1958, the couple wed away. In June 1959, he married actress Priscilla Pughe-Morgan (born 14 January 1934). They had two children.
Dunn was described as having eye trouble and often being unable to see in an article from 2006, but otherwise, he seems to be in good shape. He delivered a note in August 2008 for Jonathan Ross Salutes Dad's Army, which was on display in honor of Dad's Army's fortieth anniversary.
He spent the last three decades of his life in Algarve, Portugal, and occupied himself as an artist, creating portraits, landscapes, and seascapes until his sight faded.
Dunn was a Labour Party supporter. Arthur Lowe, his father's Army co-star who was a hardy conservative, argued that his outspoken socialist convictions often led to conflict with his Dad's Army co-star, who was a steadist. Lowe would only be granted a higher-rated award by the Queen when Dunn was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1975. Dunn and his classmates briefly joined the British Union of Fascists, but Dunn left the group after learning of its anti-Semitic ideology.
Acting career
Dunn resumed his acting career in repertory theatre. But he soon made his first television appearance. In 1951 he appeared as the man in the pub in Surprise Attack, a short film produced by the Crown Film Unit and commissioned by the Ministry of Health.
In 1956 and 1957, Dunn appeared in both series of The Tony Hancock Show and the army reunion party episode of Hancock's Half Hour in 1960. 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 early in his career, his trademark character was that of a doddering old man. This first made an impression in the show Bootsie and Snudge, a spin-off from The Army Game. Dunn played the old dogsbody Mr. Johnson at a slightly seedy gentlemen's club where the characters Pte. "Bootsie" Bisley (Alfie Bass) and Sgt. Claude Snudge (Bill Fraser) find work after leaving the Army. In the early 1960s he made regular appearances on It's a Square World, including as the first parody of Doctor Who on New Year's Eve 1963.
In 1967, he made a guest appearance in an episode of The Avengers, playing the proprietor of a toy shop in "Something Nasty in the Nursery".
At 48 Dunn was one of the younger members of the Dad's Army cast when he took on the role of the elderly butcher whose military service in earlier wars made him the most experienced member of the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard, as well as one of the most decrepit. Jack Haig and David Jason had previously been considered for the role. His relative youth, compared with most of the cast, meant that he was handed much of the physical comedy in the show, of which many of the other cast members were no longer capable.
After Dad's Army ended, Dunn capitalised on his skill in playing elderly character roles by playing the lead character Charlie Quick, in the slapstick children's TV series Grandad, from 1979 to 1984 (he played the caretaker at a village hall, and sang the lyrics in the theme). He had previously had a number one hit single with the song "Grandad" on his 51st birthday in January 1971, accompanied by a children's choir. The song was written by bassist Herbie Flowers. He performed the song four times on Top of the Pops. The B-side of "Grandad", "I Play The Spoons", also received considerable airplay. After cancellation of Grandad in 1984, he retired to Portugal. Following the success of the "Grandad" record, Dunn released several other singles, but never hit the charts again.
He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1971, when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews.
In 1979 he went on a tour to New Zealand, and performed with the local singer Tina Cross, and also tried to locate Bill Hughes, the Kiwi soldier he had struck up a friendship with on their forced march near the end of the war from Austria back into Germany, but Mr. Hughes was found to have passed away a few years earlier.