1. In 1941, the regiment was forced to surrender after it was overrun during the Greek campaign, and Clive Dunn was held as a POW in Austria for the next four years.
24 Facts About Clive Dunn
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Clive Dunn made his first television appearance in 1951 as the man in the pub in Surprise Attack, a short film commissioned by the Ministry of Health.
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Clive Dunn was educated at Sevenoaks School in Kent, an independent school for boys.
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Clive Dunn had a few small film roles in the 1930s.
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Clive Dunn served as a trooper in the 4th Queen's Own Hussars.
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Clive Dunn fought in the rearguard action at the Corinth canal in April 1941.
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The regiment was forced to surrender after it was overrun and Clive Dunn was among 400 men who were taken as prisoners of war.
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Clive Dunn was held as a POW in Austria for the next four years.
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Clive Dunn remained in the army after the war ended, until finally demobilised in 1947.
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In 1956 and 1957, Clive Dunn appeared in both series of The Tony Hancock Show and the army reunion party episode of Hancock's Half Hour in 1960.
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Clive Dunn played the old dogsbody Mr Johnson at a slightly seedy gentlemen's club where the characters Pte.
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At 48 Clive Dunn was one of the younger members of the Dad's Army cast when he took on the role of the elderly butcher whose military service in earlier wars made him the most experienced member of the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard, as well as one of the most decrepit.
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Clive Dunn had previously had a number one hit single with the song "Grandad" on his 51st birthday in January 1971, accompanied by a children's choir.
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Clive Dunn performed the song four times on Top of the Pops.
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Clive Dunn played Frosch in the 1979 English National Opera production of Die Fledermaus at the London Coliseum, where "tipsy in walk and talk, and reminding us of the best of music-hall traditions" he, and Eric Shilling, "made the opening of Act 3 as hilarious as it should be".
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Clive Dunn was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1971, when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews.
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Clive Dunn married fashion model Patricia Kenyon in London in 1951.
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Clive Dunn married actress Priscilla Pughe-Morgan was born on 14 January 1934 and in June 1959.
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Clive Dunn spent the last three decades of his life in the Algarve, Portugal, and occupied himself as an artist, painting portraits, landscapes and seascapes, until his sight failed.
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Clive Dunn said that his outspoken socialist beliefs often caused conflict with his Dad's Army co-star, Arthur Lowe, who was a staunch conservative.
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When Clive Dunn was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1975, it was reported that Lowe would only accept a higher-rated honour from the Queen.
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Clive Dunn died at his home in Boliqueime, Portugal, on 6 November 2012 as a result of complications from an operation that had taken place earlier that week.
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Clive Dunn's agent, Peter Charlesworth, said the star would be "sorely missed" and that his death was "a real loss to the acting profession".
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Frank Williams, who played the Vicar in Dad's Army, said Clive Dunn was always "great fun" to be around.