Dad's Army [SEP] cast member
ineligible for military service, either because of age (hence the title "Dad's Army") or by being in professions exempt from conscription. "Dad's Army" deals almost exclusively with men over military age, and featured older British actors, including Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Arnold Ridley and John Laurie. Younger members of the cast included Ian Lavender, Clive Dunn (who played the oldest guardsman, Lance Corporal Jones, despite being one of the youngest cast members), and James Beck (who died
loss to the acting profession". His death, and those of Bill Pertwee in 2013 and Pamela Cundell in 2015, leaves only two surviving major cast members from "Dad's Army": Ian Lavender and Frank Williams, the former of whom is the only surviving cast member to have played a character in the platoon.
Frank Williams, who played the Vicar in "Dad's Army", said Dunn was always "great fun" to be around. "Of course he was so much younger than the part