Dad’s Army star John Clegg dies aged 90-Meghna Amin-Entertainment – Metro

John Clegg has died aged 90 (Picture: BBC)

Dad’s Army star John Clegg has died aged 90.

The actor was best known for his role in the BBC sitcom, and as playing Gunner ‘Paderewski’ Graham in It Ain’t Half Hot Mum across 56 episodes.

He ‘died peacefully in care’, an announcement read, adding: ‘He will be missed by all his friends from the theatre, his friends in Chichester and his family.’

A private funeral will be held on August 29 in West Sussex.

Clegg also held roles in 90s TV series You Rang, M’Lord? and as Clifford Howes in Crossroads: Kings Oak.

More recently, he played an unnamed elderly man in 2001 film Bridget Jones’s Diary.

Author and Bafta member Morris Bright paid tribute on X, writing: ‘We is very sorry indeed to hear that La Di Da Gunner Graham, actor John Clegg, has gone to that great concert party in the sky, aged 90.

‘He certainly was one of the boys who entertained us.’

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