Teddy 21 Posted March 10, 2004 Clive Dunn must deserve some sort of honour. He appeared as no1 in the 1987 list, and is still in there at 50 in this years list. Perhaps he is only hanging on for spite, in the hope that he drops off next year - and then can drop off for good. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grim Reaper 186 Posted March 10, 2004 Well this needs a bit of reserach for a full answer, but Teddy you are absolutely right. It was me who insisted that Clive Dunn be included on the first DeathList in 1987 and Ive been keenly sticking by him ever since. Even though its starting to look as if he might be immortal I'll be voting for him every year. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Phil Triggs Posted March 12, 2004 Do nominees express their displeasure at being included on this venerable listing? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Teddy 21 Posted March 12, 2004 Well, I would guess one way of displaying their displeasure is by not playing along, although looking back, quite a few seem to have got into the spirit of things last year and made it a record breaker. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grim Reaper 186 Posted March 15, 2004 Well Phil, we have never been contacted by anyone who has ever been on DeathList - I would imagine that some candidates might (understandably) not take it in the spirit that it is intended, but as Teddy suggests - actions speak louder than words Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stayin Alive 26 Posted March 15, 2004 Hey Phil, or can I call you Clive? A celebrity endorsement would be most welcome. It would help to silence some of the critics and no doubt help the PR machine. BTW can we get a more recent photo: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Teddy 21 Posted March 15, 2004 Found this photo of Clive from 1998 - he seems to be getting younger. Maybe he is going to live forever! PS - Clive is on the right! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stayin Alive 26 Posted March 16, 2004 Wow, he is looking younger and great for 82. Perhaps he has the eilixir of life. No chance there for this year I would hazard. Perhaps we should be swapping that parrot for Clive on the list instead. I'm not even going ask who the guy on the left is. I thought it was Dean Tavalouris from the League of Gentlemen: "maghik" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mr Stats 9 Posted March 18, 2004 Dear Phil and others We've neve had direct contact with a nominee but we did get a threatening email from Lord Scarman's grand-daughter Aimee I have it framed Mr Stats Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stayin Alive 26 Posted March 19, 2004 Anyway, whilst Stats is off, busy polishing his trophy, and given that this thread is now about Clive... Clive has settled in the Algarve, according to his crafty flirtation with Saga magazine, c.1992. Silver surfers have been flocking there ever since, impacting the local wine prices. http://home.btconnect.com/howejam/dadsarmy...issionspeak.htm "Why has he chosen to settle in the Algarve? "The weather is a major attraction, " he says, filling our glasses with delicious £1-a-bottle white wine."It is the best climate in Europe. The Portuguese people are invariably pleasant and tolerant, the cost of living is about the same as England, and the wine is so cheap it could become an alcoholic's paradise. Fish, meat, petrol, and electricity are expensive and I would say a car is essential, but given care it is possible to live cheaply. "We're told that a lot of British residents have returned home due to rising prices, but there are still many of them here. It is a wonderful place for sporty people with all the golf; tennis, swimming and boating you could want. I play golf and tennis once a week, tomorrow I'm horse riding, occasionally I go fishing in my glass fibre boat." This lifestyle is his elixir and it does seem to be paying off. No fuel bills or cold, flu bearing weather in the UK to worry about and plenty of £1 bottles of wine. All this since being dmobbed from Croft & Perry's sitcom army in 1892. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mort 0 Posted July 7, 2004 I heard he was joining Eastenders as Derek's long lost father resulting in a good old cockney knees up, jellied eels...etc.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Four Horsemen 26 Posted July 7, 2004 Could be a bad move - remember what it did for Michael Elphick Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stayin Alive 26 Posted July 7, 2004 Mort, are you serious about Clive and Eastenders? If so, where did you read? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anubis the Jackal 77 Posted August 6, 2004 Further proof of Dunn looking younger as he gets older.... Bear in mind this was taken in 1959! DunnAgin' Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stayin Alive 26 Posted August 9, 2004 Well, it's good to see that 4donkeys didn't have anything to say about dear old Clive. Safe for a bit longer then. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Four Donkeys of the Apocolypse Posted August 9, 2004 Ah ha! And you thoght I would miss him. Well I haven't but because he's such an inconsequential entity I won't bother........sorry Clive, keep swilling those bottles of cheapo collapso though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Four Horsemen 26 Posted August 10, 2004 Non-entity? Careful, you'll have a visit from the Reaper with such heresy! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Earl Gloomy 7 Posted August 10, 2004 About him getting younger , perhaps he is seeing Anne Robinson's plastic surgeon and make-up artist , Dr. Smith (please don't ask how i know the name of her make-up artist). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Four Donkeys of the Apocolypse 0 Posted August 10, 2004 "Non-entity? Careful, you'll have a visit from the Reaper with such heresy!" I actually said inconsequential, not non as in non existant. Even you must rank the famous by degrees of importance. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ed Posted August 22, 2004 Could his next big chart success - apart from on here - be 'Grand(e)ad'? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Typhoid Harry 23 Posted August 22, 2004 Rumours abound here in the states that Clive is due to appear as a guest on the sitcom "Just Shoot Me" as a means to fulfill the promise of their title. Just kidding... Or dreaming. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anubis the Jackal 77 Posted August 25, 2004 "Patience looks a little familiar..." What say we have a DL whipround to commission a portrait of the Great Clive by someone who is obviously a relative? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Four Horsemen 26 Posted August 25, 2004 I notice that one of the private collections is held by Michael Elphick - I wonder if she got them back upon his demise? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anubis the Jackal 77 Posted August 25, 2004 That would have been quite a Boon Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest VSBfromH Posted August 25, 2004 I always recall with mirth a laughable article in one of the Sunday crapsheets entitled someting like "The Curse of Dad's Army" which detailed how the cast were all dropping like flies. Apart from James Beck (Private Walker) who died of a burst pancreas at the age of 44, the others all seemed to do pretty well, viz: Arthur Lowe: 66, stroke John Le Mesurier: 71, cirrhosis of the liver Clive Dunn: still going strong! John Laurie: 83, emphysema & lung ailment Arnold Ridley (bless him!): 88, old age (presumably) Ian Lavender: Born 1946, currently annoying us in 'stenders Bill Pertwee: Born 1926, doing much better than cousin Jon Frank Williams (Vicar): Born 1931, apparently still with us Edward Sinclair (Verger): 63 Another case of our esteemed press having nothing better to write about, obviously! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
