Vale: Clive Dunn

Actor Clive Dunn, best known for his role as Lance Corporal “Jonesy” Jones in Dad’s Army, has died aged 92.

He died in Portugal on Tuesday from complications following an operation.

Born in London in January 1920, Dunn began acting in the 1930s until his career was interrupted by World War II, during which he spent four years as a German prisoner.

He would later say that Dad’s Army, which ran from 1968 to 1977, was his revenge on his former captors.

As well as Dad’s Army, he also appeared in Bootsie and Snudge, My Old Man and Grandad. His last screen credit was in a 1984 TV version of Much Ado About Nothing.

But it was his role as Lance Corporal “Jonesy” Jones that was his most famous.

Frank Williams, who played the Vicar on said he was always “great fun” to be around.

“Of course he was so much younger than the part he played,” he told BBC Radio Four. “It’s very difficult to think of him as an old man really.

Dunn’s autobiography, Permission to Speak, was titled after one of Jonesy’s catchphrases.

He spent his last three decades in Portugal, where he occupied himself as an artist painting portraits, landscapes and seascapes until his sight failed.

Source: BBC