Dad's Army star Clive Dunn dies
Dad's Army star Clive Dunn OBE has died, his agent Peter Charlesworth has said.
Most famous lines of Lance Corporal Jack Jones
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!"
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