He was a POW and involved in the 'Wooden Horse' escape.
He auditioned for the movie about it but didn't get a part as he didn't look 'military' enough.
"Now, let me see. You thought I had a slipped disc. I'm afraid you were wrong. And you thought I had haemorrhoids. I'm afraid *you* were wrong. As a matter of fact, I thought I was going to break wind. I'm afraid *I* was wrong."
I'd seen him in loads of things but only discovered the Meddling Monk when the Beeb archive added all the Doc Who eps last year and I got to see the Hartnell years for the first time. Peter Butterworth was great and I wished he was in it more.
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He auditioned for the movie about it but didn't get a part as he didn't look 'military' enough.