Clive Dunn
Birthday: Born in 1920-01-09 in Covent Garden, London, England, UK
Deathday: 2012-11-06
Clive Robert Benjamin Dunn OBE was an English actor, comedian, artist, author, and singer. He is best known for his role as the elderly Lance Corporal Jones in the hugely popular BBC sitcom Dad's Army, which ran for 9 series and 80 episodes between 1968 and 1977.
TV Credits
Dad's Army
Character: Lance-Corporal Jack Jones
Introducing the Walmington-On-Sea home guard. During WW2, in a fictional British seaside town, a ragtag group of Home Guard local defense volunteers prepare for an imminent German invasion....
Top of the Pops
Character: Self
The biggest stars, the most iconic performances, the most outrageous outfits – it’s Britain’s number one pop show....
The Avengers
Character: Martin
The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity....
My Old Man
Character: Sam
My Old Man was a popular but short-lived British comedy programme starring Clive Dunn as retired and embittered engine driver Sam Cobbett. Set in London, England, Sam Cobbett is the last tenant to leave an old house on a council-condemned road. He goes to live with his daughter, her posh husband, and their young teenage son, in a flat nearby....
Bootsie and Snudge
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Bootsie and Snudge is a British television situation comedy series written, in the early days, by Barry Took and Marty Feldman; later writers were John Antrobus, Jack Rosenthal, ventriloquist Ray Alan and Harry Driver. The show featured Clive Dunn, more famous as Corporal Jones in Dad's Army, as well as Alfie Bass and Bill Fraser. Series 1-3, 5 centred around a gentlemen's club called the Imperial Club, whilst the fourth series broadcast as "Foreign Affairs" centred around a British Embassy in B...
No Hiding Place
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No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart....
The BBC Television Shakespeare
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The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and produced by BBC Television. It was transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985 and spanned seven series. Development of the series began in 1975 when Messina saw that Glamis Castle would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeare's play As You Like It. On returning to London, he envisioned an entire series devoted exclusivel...
From a Bird's Eye View
Character: Fred Arnott
From a Bird's Eye View is a 1970 ATV and ITC Entertainment co-produced sitcom. In the United States it aired on NBC, which had originally ordered the series as an entry in the 1969-70 TV season but pushed it back to the 1970-71 season as a mid-season replacement. The series followed two International Airlines stewardesses, a scatterbrained Briton and a savvy American, as they flew the London-European routes. The series ran for 16 25-minute colour episodes. The series was not a big success in e...
Hancock's Half Hour
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Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy, series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock, with Sid James; the radio version also co-starred, at various times, Moira Lister, Andrée Melly, Hattie Jacques, Bill Kerr and Kenneth Williams. The final television series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone. Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own char...
Daytime Live
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Cilla
Character: Self
A mostly live weekly entertainment show starring Cilla Black and her special guests....
Sez Les
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Sez Les was a British comedy sketch show that starred Les Dawson, produced by Yorkshire Television, airing on ITV from 1969 to 1976. Roy Barraclough also joined from series four and would go on to become Dawson's most recognisable sidekick. The two most notably appeared together in drag as characters Cissie and Ada. John Cleese, who had quit the Monty Python team's television series, was also present from 1974 in two complete seasons. Other cast members included Norman Chappell, Brian Glover, Br...
Dad's Army: The Animations
Character: Lance-Corporal Jack Jones
Lost episodes of Dad's Army, animated to surviving soundtrack recordings....
Dad's Army: The Missing Episodes
Character: LCpl. Jack Jones
A new series of animated Dad's Army (1968) episodes, created using archive audio recordings of original (now lost) early television episodes....
Movie Credits
Dad's Army: Missing Presumed Wiped
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Documentary about the lost episodes of Dad's Army (1968) and their recovery and restoration....
Dad's Army
Character: LCpl. Jack Jones
Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman 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....
Hitler: The Comedy Years
Character: LCpl. Jack Jones (archive footage) (uncredited)
A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture....
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
Character: Keeper of the Keys - London Tower
Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ingredients for a new batch of elixir, starting with the Star of Leningrad diamond, nabbed from a Soviet exhibition in Washington. The FBI sends agents Capone and Williams to England to confer with Nayland Smith, an expert on Fu....
The Mini-Affair
Character: Tyson
A leading pop star is kidnapped in swinging London....
The Treasure of San Teresa
Character: Cemetery Keeper
After World War II, an ex-spy returns to Germany to search for a cache of jewels he hid in a Czechoslovakian convent....
Idol on Parade
Character: Reporter
A rock'n'roll idol is drafted into the wrong regiment....
Boys in Brown
Character: Holdup Man
Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Borstal where he meets a tough crowd, tougher than anything on the outside....
A Yank at Oxford
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister....
Crooks and Coronets
Character: Basil
Two crooks are hired to rob an eccentric old lady's estate, but once they get to know her, they can't bring themselves to do it....
What a Whopper
Character: Mr. Slate
A writer attempts to raise some cash by writing a book about the Loch Ness Monster. No publisher will take it because they all think there isn't really a monster. The writer and some of his friends make a fake monster and take photographs and then travel to Scotland to see if they can convince the locals....
Boys Will Be Boys
Character: Schoolboy watching rugby (uncredited)
Alec Smart, who is engaged teaching in a prison, applies for the job of headmaster at a nearby public school to replace the previous headmaster who has been convicted of writing forged cheques and has just been sent to prison. Smart appeals to the Governor to write him a good reference which he pretends to. Afterwards he writes his real recommendation which is very negative about Smart's talents. The trustee who works as the Governor's secretary, Faker Brown, "accidentally" gets the two letters ...
Good Morning, Boys!
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
Dr. Benjamin Twist (Hay) and his pupils become involved with art thieves on a trip to Paris. Hay’s seamy schoolmaster act is supported by a fine cast including Charles Hawtrey and Lilli Palmer....
30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia!
Character: Doctor
A 29-year old aspiring composer—still single and without any romantic prospects—vows to both marry and write a hit musical before he turns 30. Director Joseph McGrath's 1968 British comedy stars Dudley Moore, Suzy Kendall, Eddie Foy Jr. and Patricia Routledge....
The Hasty Heart
Character: MacDougall (uncredited)
In the final days of World War II, in a MASH unit in Burma, a severely wounded corporal watches in dismay as fellow soldiers pack-up to return home but a caring nurse and five remaining soldiers bring him solace....
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Character: Youth (uncredited)
A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life....
She'll Have to Go
Character: Chemist
When Francis and Douglas Oberon learn that their late grandmother has bequeathed the family fortune to distant cousin Toni, they immediately start plotting to get their hands on the money. They dream up a plot whereby they cannot fail to acquire a comfortable future; the lovely Toni must either be murdered, or married......
Just Like a Woman
Character: Graff von Fischer
Lewis and Scilla's rocky marriage finally breaks apart – a situation made worse by the fact that Scilla is a key part of the television show that Lewis produces. But while Lewis copes by picking up a passing starlet, Scilla indulges her passion for bathrooms by getting one custom-designed by an ex-Nazi architect!...
The Magic Christian
Character: Sommelier
Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, adopts a homeless man, Youngman. Together, they set out to prove that anyone--and anything--can be bought....
Much Ado About Nothing
Character: Verges
Benedick and Beatrice fight their merry war of words. But when Beatrice's friend, Hero, is humiliatingly jilted by Benedick's best friend, Claudio, Benedick has to choose which side he's on. But unknown to all, Claudio's been tricked by the bastard Don John, and (unfortunately), it's up to Dogberry and Verges to solve the case....
You Must Be Joking
Character: Television studio Doorman
A motley group of soldiers are set loose on swinging England in an initiative test to collect a selection of esoteric items...
The Fast Lady
Character: Old Gentleman in Burning House
A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father....
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
Character: Dr. Zimmerman
Harriet Blossom is married to Robert Blossom, a businessman who'd rather spend the night at his bra factory than at home with her. One day, Harriet's sewing machine breaks, so Robert sends a repairman, Ambrose, to fix it. It's lust at first sight for Harriet, who convinces Ambrose to hide out in the attic for a tryst. When her new beau shows no desire to leave, the pair begin a years-long love affair right under Robert's nose....
Don't Panic: The Dad's Army Story
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Victoria Wood presents the true story behind Britain's timeless comedy. Includes footage of the cast on location and incredible personal tales about the making of the series. Was Arthur Lowe really just like Captain Mainwaring? Why did the warden always end up in the water? And how did Corporal Jones find a bomb down his trousers? Find out why Dad's Army was the Queen Mother's favourite show....
The Mouse on the Moon
Character: Bandleader
Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in a new set of plumbing, they request foreign aid from the U.S. for Space Research. The Russians then send aid as well to show that they too are for the internationalization of space. While the grand Duke is dreaming of hot baths, their one scientist is slapping together a rocket. The U.S. and Soviets get wind of the impending launch and try and beat them t...