Product Description

During Bill Pertwee's 80 plus years he has farmed, helped build Spitfire planes, acted as a baggage boy on the 1946 Indian cricket tour of England and worked as a window cleaner. In 1954 he offered Beryl Reid some comedy material and ended up on stage in her revue. Since then he has been a full-time professional actor and is still going strong, appearing regularly on TV and radio. His autobiography is as humorous, entertaining and varied as you would expect from a man who has rubbed shoulders with the great names of entertainment like Spike Milligan, Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Horne, Michael Denison and Dulcie Gray, Derek Nimmo, Evelyn Laye, Donald Sinden, George Burns and Sammy Davis Jnr, to name but a few!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #238883 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-31
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Customer Reviews

A delightful memoir by a delightful man
Bill Pertwee has been contributing to shows, sketches and sitcoms for more than half a century. He was superbly reliable on radio in such much-loved series as Beyond Our Ken and Round the Horne, and then was a stalwart of many David Croft television sitcoms - the best of all, of course, being Dad's Army. In this bright and breezy look back at his life and career, Pertwee shows himself to be as modest and as amiable as ARP Warden Hodges was pompous and irritating. If you have enjoyed the shows, and are not eager for deep dark secrets, you will find this book a warm and entertaining read.