biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1914–82)
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| biography:
| Actor, born in Hayfield, Derbyshire, C England, UK. Becoming a salesman after leaving school, he served in the armed forces (1939–45), ultimately appearing with their entertainments division. He made his London stage debut in Larger Than Life (1950), and his film debut in London Belongs to Me (1948). His subsequent theatre work included The Pajama Game (1955), but it was television that brought him his greatest popularity, first as Mr Swindley in Coronation Street (1960–5), then as the bumbling Captain Mainwaring in Dad's Army (1968–77). |
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