Bill Pertwee

Bill Pertwee

Born: July 21, 1926
Died: May 27, 2013
in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
William Desmond Anthony Pertwee, MBE was an English comedy actor. He played the role of the antagonist Chief ARP Warden Hodges in the sitcom Dad's Army.

Movies for Bill Pertwee...

Title: Dad's Army: The Animations
Character: ARP Warden Bert Hodges
Released: November 6, 2023
Type: TV
Lost episodes of Dad's Army, animated to surviving soundtrack recordings.
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Title: Dad's Army: The Missing Episodes
Character: Chief Warden Hodges
Released: November 6, 2023
Type: TV
A new series of animated Dad's Army (1968) episodes, created using archive audio recordings of original (now lost) early television episodes.
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Run For Your Wife
Title: Run For Your Wife
Character: Man on Bus
Released: May 16, 2012
Type: Movie
John Smith has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for five years. He lives with Stephanie in Finsbury and Michelle in Stockwell. Fortunately, for John, he's a taxi driver which involves varying shift work! Simple? Well, when John unwittingly becomes a have-a-go hero and the Finsbury and Stockwell police forces discover something suspicious in their paperwork, John's happy bubble is about to be burst. The action of the movie takes place during the next hectic 24 hours as John, with the assistance of his gullible neighbor Gary, rush between North and South London attempting to thwart the police and prevent the two loving wives coming face to face!
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A Life on the Box: Arthur Lowe
Title: A Life on the Box: Arthur Lowe
Character: Self
Released: July 30, 2000
Type: Movie
Terry Wogan presents a compilation programme celebrating the unique talent of Arthur Lowe. Featuring interviews with those who knew him, and footage from both his classic comedy performances and his many straight roles.
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Don't Panic: The Dad's Army Story
Title: Don't Panic: The Dad's Army Story
Released: May 27, 2000
Type: Movie
Victoria Wood presents the true story behind Britain's timeless comedy. Includes footage of the cast on location and incredible personal tales about the making of the series. Was Arthur Lowe really just like Captain Mainwaring? Why did the warden always end up in the water? And how did Corporal Jones find a bomb down his trousers? Find out why Dad's Army was the Queen Mother's favourite show.
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Title: You Rang M'Lord
Released: January 14, 1990
Type: TV
You Rang, M'Lord? is a British comedy series written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, the creators of Dad's Army, It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Hi-de-Hi! It was broadcast between 1990 and 1993 on the BBC. The show was a comedy set in the house of an aristocratic family in the 1920s, contrasting the upper-class family and their servants in a house in London, along the same lines as the popular drama Upstairs, Downstairs. The series featured many actors who had also appeared in their earlier series, notably Paul Shane, Jeffrey Holland and Su Pollard, all of whom had previously been in Perry and Croft's holiday camp sitcom, Hi-de-Hi!. Also featured were Donald Hewlett and Michael Knowles from Perry and Croft's It Ain't Half Hot Mum, and Bill Pertwee and occasionally Frank Williams from Dad's Army. The memorable 1920s-style theme tune was sung by Bob Monkhouse.
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Title: Daytime Live
Released: October 21, 1987
Type: TV
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Title: Chance in a Million
Released: September 10, 1984
Type: TV
Chance in a Million is a British sitcom broadcast between 1984 and 1986, produced by Thames Television for Channel 4. The series was co-written by Andrew Norriss and Richard Fegen and starred Simon Callow and Brenda Blethyn. The producer and director of the series was Michael Mills.
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A Cup O' Tea An' A Slice O' Cake - Worzel Gummidge Christmas Special
Title: A Cup O' Tea An' A Slice O' Cake - Worzel Gummidge Christmas Special
Character: Lorry Driver
Released: December 27, 1980
Type: Movie
Christmas is coming to Ten Acre Field and Worzel Gummidge (Jon Pertwee) is determined to enjoy it in style. He goes searching for Aunt Sally (Una Stubbs), hoping to invite her to the Scarecrow Ball, but before he can find her he runs into his old friend Saucy Nancy (Barbara Windsor), herself heading for a spell in panto. Then, before he gets much further, our multi-headed hero gets sidetracked again when he runs into angry Scots scarecrow Bogle McNeep (Billy Connolly) and his anti-Christmas brigade. Will Worzel ever get to enjoy the season with his beloved?
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What's Up Nurse
Title: What's Up Nurse
Character: Flash Harry Harrison
Released: June 30, 1978
Type: Movie
When Dr. Robert "Sweeney" Todd arrives to fill his post at a new hospital, he is shocked to see the lengths that the nurses go to in caring for their patients.
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What's Up Superdoc!
Title: What's Up Superdoc!
Character: Woodie
Released: March 21, 1978
Type: Movie
A doctor fathers 837 brilliant sons through an artificial insemination program, and every woman wants a donation.
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Title: Larry Grayson
Released: September 19, 1975
Type: TV
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Confessions of a Pop Performer
Title: Confessions of a Pop Performer
Character: Husband with Javelin
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Either you've got it or you haven't - some like randy young Timothy Lea (Robin Askwith), manage to get it all the time! Signing up with a pop group, our boisterous hero progresses rapidly from local gigs to scoring a titillating hit with The Climax Sisters, with plenty of ribald adventures along the way!
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Man About the House
Title: Man About the House
Character: Postman
Released: December 22, 1974
Type: Movie
An unscrupulous property developer wants to flatten the street to make way for new buildings. Householder George Roper is happy to take the offered money and run but his wife Mildred and their lodgers join with other residents to take a stand and keep things as they are.
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Title: It Ain't Half Hot Mum
Released: January 3, 1974
Type: TV
The comic adventures of a group of misfits who form an extremely bad concert party touring the hot and steamy jungles of Burma entertaining the troops during World War II.
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Carry On Girls
Title: Carry On Girls
Character: Fire Chief
Released: November 9, 1973
Type: Movie
Local councillor Sidney Fiddler persuades the Mayor to help improve the image of their rundown seaside town by holding a beauty contest. But formidable Councillor Prodworthy, head of the local women's liberation movement, has other ideas. It's open warfare as the women's lib attempt to sabotage the contest.
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Love Thy Neighbour
Title: Love Thy Neighbour
Character: Postman
Released: August 26, 1973
Type: Movie
Two men who are nextdoor neighbors constantly battle it out over seemingly trivial offenses. Their wives, on the other hand, are best of friends. The two couples attempt to win a 'love-thy-neighbor' competition by lying...
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The Silent One
Title: The Silent One
Character: Police Driver
Released: February 10, 1973
Type: Movie
Who is Anton Haliakov, who has just been abducted by the M.I.5 in London? A Soviet scientist apparently. But sixteen years before the man had another identity, Clément Tibère, and another nationality, French. So what led him to become Russian and to change identity? And why are the British secret services interested in him?
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Psychomania
Title: Psychomania
Character: Publican
Released: January 5, 1973
Type: Movie
A gang of young people call themselves the Living Dead. They terrorize the population from their small town. After an agreement with the devil, if they kill themselves firmly believing in it, they will survive and gain eternal life. Following their leader, they commit suicide one after the other, but things don't necessarily turn out as expected...
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The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
Title: The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
Character: Cockney Man (segment "Lust")
Released: November 1, 1971
Type: Movie
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins is a 1971 British comedy film directed and produced by Graham Stark. Its title is a conflation of The Magnificent Seven and the seven deadly sins. It comprises a sequence of seven sketches, each representing a sin and written by an array of British comedy-writing talent. The sketches are linked by animation sequences. The music score is by British jazz musician Roy Budd, cinematography by Harvey Harrison and editing by Rod Nelson-Keys and Roy Piper. It was produced by Tigon Pictures and distributed in the U.K. by Tigon Film Distributors Ltd..
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Carry On at Your Convenience
Title: Carry On at Your Convenience
Character: Manager of Whippit Inn
Released: June 15, 1971
Type: Movie
This is the tale of industrial strife at WC Boggs' Lavatory factory. Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat; eventually everyone has to get fed up with him. This is also the ideal opportunity for lots of lavatorial jokes...
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Dad's Army
Title: Dad's Army
Character: A.R.P. Warden Hodges
Released: March 12, 1971
Type: Movie
Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman Cohen, it was filmed between series three and four and was based upon material from the early episodes of the television series. The film told the story of the Home Guard platoon's formation and their subsequent endeavours at a training exercise.
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Carry On Loving
Title: Carry On Loving
Character: Barman
Released: September 20, 1970
Type: Movie
The Wedded Bliss computer dating agency aims to bring together the lonely hearts of Much-Snoggin-in-the-Green. Its owner, Sidney Bliss, has enough complications in his own love life, but still produces a pamphlet called 'The Wit to Woo'. The strange collection of hopefuls lead to some outlandish matches—and jealousies are bound to lead to trouble.
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Title: Dad's Army
Character: ARP Warden Bert Hodges
Released: July 31, 1968
Type: TV
Introducing the Walmington-On-Sea home guard. During WW2, in a fictional British seaside town, a ragtag group of Home Guard local defense volunteers prepare for an imminent German invasion.
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Title: Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width
Released: February 18, 1967
Type: TV
Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width is a British television sitcom first broadcast in 1967 as a single play in the Armchair Theatre anthology series, later becoming a series of half-hour episodes, which ran until 1971. A total of 40 episodes were made, all but one of them being believed to have aired. It was originally made by ABC Television for the ITV network, with its production being continued by Thames Television.