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James Beck

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Stanley James Carroll Beck (21 February 1929 – 6 August 1973) was an English actor who played the role of Private Walker, a cockney spiv, in the BBC sitcom Dad's Army. [1]

54 relations: A Family at War, All Gas and Gaiters, Arthur Lowe, BBC, British Army, British Film Institute, Carry On Loving, Cockney, Coronation Street, Dad's Army, Dad's Army (1971 film), David Croft (TV producer), Dixon of Dock Green, Doctor in the House, Dr. Finlay's Casebook (TV and radio), England, Gideon's Way, Graham Stark, Groupie Girl, Hancock's Half Hour, Islington, Jimmy Perry, John Bardon, Larry Martyn, London, Love Thy Neighbour (1973 film), My Wife Next Door, National service, North London, Not in Front of the Children (TV series), Pancreatitis, Peter Cushing, Private Walker, Putney Vale Cemetery, Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton, Romany Jones, Sherlock Holmes (1965 TV series), Shylock, Sitcom, Spiv, Star! (film), Taxi!, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, The Fenn Street Gang, The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, The Honourable Man, The Merchant of Venice, The Recruit (Dad's Army), The Troubleshooters, ..., Things That Go Bump in the Night (Dad's Army), Two in Clover, Wandsworth, Z-Cars. Expand index (4 more) »

A Family at War

A Family At War is a British drama series that aired on ITV from 1970 to 1972.

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All Gas and Gaiters

All Gas and Gaiters is a British television ecclesiastical sitcom which aired on BBC1 from 1966 to 1971.

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Arthur Lowe

Arthur Lowe (22 September 1915 – 15 April 1982) was an English actor.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of British Armed Forces.

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and charitable organisation which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom.

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Carry On Loving

Carry On Loving is the twentieth in the series of ''Carry On'' films to be made, and was released in 1970.

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Cockney

The term cockney has had several distinct geographical, social, and linguistic associations.

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Coronation Street

Coronation Street (also informally referred to as Corrie) is a British soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960.

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Dad's Army

Dad's Army is a BBC television sitcom about the British Home Guard during the Second World War.

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Dad's Army (1971 film)

Dad's Army is a 1971 British war comedy film and the first film adaptation of the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army.

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David Croft (TV producer)

Major David John Croft OBE (born David John Andrew Sharland; 7 September 1922 – 27 September 2011) was an English writer, producer and director.

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Dixon of Dock Green

Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series about daily life at a London police station, with the emphasis on petty crime, successfully controlled through common sense and human understanding.

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Doctor in the House

Doctor in the House is a 1954 British comedy film directed by Ralph Thomas and produced by Betty Box.

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Dr. Finlay's Casebook (TV and radio)

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Gideon's Way

Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment and broadcast for ITV in 1965/66, based on the novels by John Creasey (as J. J. Marric).

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Graham Stark

Graham William Stark (20 January 1922 – 29 October 2013) was an English comedian, actor, writer and director.

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Groupie Girl

Groupie Girl is a 1970 British drama film about the rock music scene, directed by Derek Ford and starring Esme Johns, Donald Sumpter and the band Opal Butterfly.

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Hancock's Half Hour

Hancock's Half Hour was a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy series, broadcast from 1954 to 1961 and written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.

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Islington

Islington is a district in Greater London, England, and part of the London Borough of Islington.

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Jimmy Perry

James Perry, OBE (20 September 1923 – 23 October 2016) was an English actor and scriptwriter, best known for devising and co-writing the BBC sitcoms Dad's Army (1968–1977), It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1974–1981), Hi-De-Hi (1980–1988) and You Rang M'Lord? (1988–1993), all with David Croft.

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John Bardon

John Bardon (born John Michael Jones, 25 August 1939 – 12 September 2014), was an English stage and screen actor.

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Larry Martyn

Lawrence "Larry" Martyn (22 March 1934 – 7 August 1994) was a British actor known for his comedy performances.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Love Thy Neighbour (1973 film)

Love Thy Neighbour is a 1973 British comedy film starring Jack Smethurst, Rudolph Walker, Kate Williams and Nina Baden-Semper, spun off from the television series Love Thy Neighbour.

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My Wife Next Door

My Wife Next Door is a British sitcom created by Brian Clemens and written by Richard Waring.

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National service

National service is a system of either compulsory or voluntary government service, usually military service.

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North London

North London is the northern part of London, England.

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Not in Front of the Children (TV series)

Not in Front of the Children is a BBC television situation comedy, which ran for four series from 1967 to 1970.

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Pancreatitis

Pancreatitis is inflammation of the pancreas.

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Peter Cushing

Peter Wilton Cushing (26 May 191311 August 1994) was an English actor best known for his roles in the Hammer Productions horror films of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, as well as his performance as Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars (1977).

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Private Walker

Private Joe Walker is a fictional black market spiv (or Wholesales Supplier, as he politely puts it) and Home Guard platoon member, portrayed by actor James Beck in the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army.

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Putney Vale Cemetery

Putney Vale Cemetery and Crematorium in southwest London is located in Putney Vale, surrounded by Putney Heath and Wimbledon Common and Richmond Park.

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Queen Mary's Hospital

Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton is a community hospital in the south west of London, United Kingdom operated by the St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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Roehampton

Roehampton is a suburban district in southwest London, forming the western end of the London Borough of Wandsworth.

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Romany Jones

Romany Jones is a British sitcom made by London Weekend Television, It starred Arthur Mullard and Queenie Watts as Wally and Lily Briggs and was broadcast between 1973 and 1975, The show was originally designed as a vehicle for James Beck (Private Walker in Dad's Army), involving the comic misadventures of two layabout families living on a caravan site.

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Sherlock Holmes (1965 TV series)

Sherlock Holmes (alternatively Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes) is a British series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations for television produced by BBC between 1965 and 1968.

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Shylock

Shylock is a character in William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice.

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Sitcom

A sitcom, short for "situation comedy", is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who carry over from episode to episode.

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Spiv

In the United Kingdom, the word spiv is slang for a type of petty criminal who deals in illicit, typically black market, goods.

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Star! (film)

Star! (re-release title Those Were the Happy Times) is a 1968 American biographical musical film directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews.

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Taxi!

Taxi! is a 1932 American pre-Code gangster film starring James Cagney and Loretta Young.

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The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

"The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" is one of 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the seventh story of twelve in the collection The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

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The Fenn Street Gang

The Fenn Street Gang is a British television sitcom which ran for three seasons between 1971 and 1973.

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The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association

The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association (working name Guide Dogs) is a British charitable organisation founded in 1934.

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The Honourable Man

"The Honourable Man" is the fifth episode of the sixth series of the British comedy series Dad's Army that was originally transmitted on 28 November 1973.

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The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice is a 16th-century play written by William Shakespeare in which a merchant in Venice must default on a large loan provided by a Jewish moneylender.

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The Recruit (Dad's Army)

"The Recruit" is the seventh episode of the sixth series of the British television sitcom Dad's Army that was originally transmitted on 12 December 1973.

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The Troubleshooters

The Troubleshooters (titled Mogul for the first series) is a British television series made by the BBC between 1965 and 1972, created by John Elliot.

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Things That Go Bump in the Night (Dad's Army)

"Things That Go Bump in the Night" is the sixth episode of the sixth series of the British television sitcom Dad's Army that was originally transmitted on 5 December 1973.

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Two in Clover

Two in Clover is a British sitcom that ran for two series from 1969 to 1970.

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Wandsworth

Wandsworth Town is a district of south London within the London Borough of Wandsworth.

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Z-Cars

Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Lancashire (now Merseyside).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Beck

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