Dad's Army star Clive Dunn dies

Ian Lavender, who played Private Frank Pike in the vintage comedy Dad's Army, paid tribute to his friend and co-star Clive Dunn. He said:

"Obviously I feel great sadness, but then he was 92, and then you think of all the fun we had, and how positive he was....he looked after me quite a lot, as a youngster....He always make you smile, no matter how you were feeling, he had a way to make you smile."

Clive Dunn's agent Peter Charlesworth paid tribute to the much-loved star, saying he would be "sorely missed."

The actor died in his home in Portugal yesterday, after a short illness. Mr Charlesworth said:

Clive Dunn's most famous character was Lance Corporal Jack Jones: Jones was a Home Guard platoon and a butcher who was discharged in 1916, having served in the Sudan (twice), the Boer War and the First World War.

Despite being seventy-years-old he was allowed to join the Local Defence Volunteers during the Second World War. Though the oldest of the volunteers, he was an active and lively member of the plantoon. His most famous lines:

• "Permission to speak sir"
• "Don't panic"
• "They don't like it up 'em!"

Only four members of the main Dad's Army cast are still alive:

• Bill Pertwee who played Warden Hodges
• Frank Williams who played the Reverend Timothy Farthing
• Ian Lavender who played Private Pike
• Pamela Cundell who joined the cast in 1969 and played Mrs Fox

Clive Dunn's character Lance Corporal Jack Jones was always trying to help Captain Mainwaring in Dad's Army with some mixed success.