| Author | Message | ||
     Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 213.106.77.123 |
Not horror-related, but still sad news. Wonderful comedy actor.  | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.130.96.10 |
Indeed. Very strange, too, as only this Sunday I said to my wife while watching an old Dad's Army that, as a kid in the early Fifties, I used to watch Clive Dunn on Children's Hour quite regularly in bit parts, along with Mr Pastry etc. And I wondered whether he could possibly be still alive. I then looked him up on Wikipedia and discovered that he was still alive, having retired to Portugal many years ago. A few days later, I now sadly hear this news. RIP. | ||
| Mbfg (Mbfg) Username: Mbfg Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 62.255.207.128 |
Another bit of my television memories gone. Odd that he played one of the older members of Captain Mannering's platoon and yet was one of the last to pass on. And I remember Mr Pastry Des! Perhaps it really is time to... PANIC! Cheers Terry | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.42.53.100 |
A case of Clive done. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.176.179.114 |
Not only Mr Pastry (who was originally played by someone else - Richard Hurndall?) but also another elderly character in Bootsie & Snudge, a character that prompted a record:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhCi2P6bjjU "Do you want me to face the way I'm singing?"... | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.130.96.10 |
Hi, Mick, Mr Pastry was played by Ricahrd Hearne. I didn't mean to imply that CD ever played the part of Mr Pastry, only that he played alongside Mr Pastry on Children's Hour. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.130.96.10 |
Btw both Clive Dunn and Mr Pastry are mentioned by name in my novella WEIRDTONGUE. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.176.179.114 |
Cheers for the unconfusion, Des!  | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.176.179.114 |
I seem to recall Dunn retired to Portugal thirty years ago, so although no time's a good time to go, I guess he had a fair old retirement. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.29.244.47 |
Been watching 'Dad's Army' on Saturday nights recently and still feel as much affection for the show as I did as a child. A classic British sitcom with the best cast of any of them. RIP Clive. |