News about Ian Lavender

Dad's Army star Ian Lavender has left £15,000 to various charities in his will after he died at the age of 77. The actor, who played 'stupid boy' Private Pike, was the last remaining main cast member from the wartime-set BBC show and died in February of this year. He is also known to another generation of TV viewers as Derek Harkinson in the BBC soap EastEnders. Lavender will give £5,000 each to Macmillan Cancer Support and Cancer Research UK, as well as £2,000 to the Actors Benevolent Fund and £3,000 to the Grand Order of Water Rats, which is an entertainment-based charity fund-raising body. He left the bulk of his £165,000 estate to his wife Michele, who he lived with in the Suffolk village of Woolpit.

On Thursday, the Army veteran Ian Lavender was remembered by celebrities and villagers alike at his funeral at St Mary's Church in Woolpit, Suffolk. The actor, best known as the young Private Pike, was the last remaining main cast member from the wartime series on BBC TV show The actor died on Friday, February 2nd, aged 77, with his wife and sons at his side.

After the first episode aired in 1986, Dad's Army became a household name and its characters have continued to make the country laugh. With the death of the show's last living main character, read more to see how Britain's favourite sitcom cast members look beyond Hollywood heavyweights to becoming soap royalty. We take a look at the stars of one of the nation's most popular sit-coms.

Ian Lavender left a legacy of laughter for many generations to reflect on with his hapless Private Pike Dad's Army appearance. He appeared in Dad's Army, the classic wartime BBC sitcom, and died on Friday, February 2.

Ian Lavender, a father's Army and EastEnders actor, died today at the age of 77, according to a tweet. The news was revealed by Dad's Army's official social media page at noon as they paid tribute to the last of the show's cast members. The words read: "We are extremely sad to learn the sad death of the illustrious, Ian Lavender." Ian was the last living member of the Dad's Army main cast in what really marks the end of an era.'

Ian Lavender, the father of Dad's Army, announced that he'd be bringing his cast-members' secrets to the grave just months before his death at the age of 77. The actor's death was announced on the Dad's Army's official social media page on Monday as they paid tribute to the last of the sitcom's actors. In 1968, Lavender, best known as the young Private Pike, was cast in the classic comedy series at the age of 22.

A veteran accountant has been found guilty of sexism after misquoted Dad's Army to name a female chief 'a stupid girl' in a land dispute. A disciplinary committee heard that David Forge (right) used Captain Mainwaring's (left) famous line to'belittle' his opponent in an email. Mainwaring, played by Arthur Lowe, refers to Ian Lavender's Private Pike as a 'Stupid Boy,' in the TV series 'Main War.'

Ian Lavender, a dad's Army soldier, has described how the show's legendary cast members were so close that they revealed intimate details with each other that they'never told their wives.' The actor, 76, who played Private Frank Pike in the series, confessed that he told co-star John Laurie (who played Private James Frazer) that he would never reveal the information they shared. Dad's Army followed the exploits of the home guard during the Second World War, from 1968 to 1977, with some of the activities continuing today.

Katie O'Hara, the head of English at Windermere School, defied advice not to teach suicide-themed books and enraged another student by instructing her class to tear a critical page from a book mid-lesson. This came just weeks after two 14-year-old students took their own lives at the end of 2019 - leaving the school community worried about the possibility of a 'cluster' of suicides. Ms O'Hara, who joined the 159-year-old school in 2015 with more than 17 years of teaching English at 'well-regarded' private schools, was not discriminated against unfairly dismissed, according to an employment tribunal.