Dad's Army star Clive Dunn dies aged 92

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BREAKING NEWS: Dad’s Army star Clive Dunn famous for the catchphrase 'Don’t Panic' dies aged 92 after ‘short illness’

- Actor, who played Corporal Jones, is believed to have been ill for weeks

Dad’s Army star Clive Dunn OBE died aged 92 in Portugal yesterday after a short illness.

The actor, who played Corporal Jones in the hit sitcom, is believed to have been ill for a few weeks.

His agent Peter Charlesworth said the star will be 'sorely missed'. He said: 'He will be a real loss to the acting profession.

'He had been a star since the mid 1930's.

'He was a young man playing old men even when he was young.'

Clive Dunn was a natural comic actor, famous for his role as the bumbling butcher Lance Corporal Jack ('Don’t panic') Jones in the huge TV hit comedy series.

Dunn, in theatrical terms, was old before his time.

Even at the age of 19 he played a doddering old man in JM Barrie’s whimsical play Mary Rose for a weekly repertory company in Abergavenny.

Indeed, throughout his successful career, he was regularly cast in such roles.

But acting was not his only forte. As a singer, he performed a number one hit Grandad, which he sang four times on Top Of The Pops. Following that success, he released several other singles.

Dunn, a socialist. also had occasional off-air clashes with the late Arthur Lowe, who played the pompous Captain Mainwaring in Dad’s Army.

Lowe was an active Conservative and when Dunn was awarded an OBE, Lowe said he would accept only a higher honour from the Queen.

I used to watch Dad's Army when I was little in my Nan and Grandads on the weekends and I remember Clive Dunn as well as the rest of them. Sad that another bit of childhood slips by, RIP.

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