David Lodge (actor)

David Lodge (actor)
David William Frederick Lodge (19 August 1921 – 18 October 2003) was an English character actor.
Career
During the Second World War, Lodge served in the RAF. Before turning to acting he worked as a circus clown. He also appeared in Gang Shows and variety before making his screen debut in The Cockleshell Heroes and going on to feature in many British films usually portraying military types, and often comedic roles.
He was a close friend of Peter Sellers and appeared as part of Spike Milligan's team on his Q programmes (a running gag being that in each episode he or Spike would mention his role in The Cockleshell Heroes).
Lodge was very prolific during the 1950s and in 1958 alone he appeared in ten films.
In 1967 he was in The Avengers episode entitled ("Epic") in which he played the actor policeman killed by Peter Wyngarde. He appeared in a 1969 episode of Randall and Hopkirk Deceased ("Who Killed Cock Robin?"), and continuing with his military-type roles as Company Sergeant-Major Sharp in an episode of It Ain't Half Hot Mum in 1976. Lodge appeared in Carry On England. He played the role of drunk Captain Bull who is replaced as Captain of the Battery by Captain S. Melly (Kenneth Connor).
He appeared in five Carry On films and several of the TV series episodes. He appeared as a policeman in the opening episode of the legal drama The Main Chance and again in a later episode. He also appeared in two of the On the Buses films playing smaller roles.
Lodge appeared as 'Pop Garret' in episode 1 series 2 Chalk and Cheese of The Sweeney, and as 'Soldier Atkins' in the Minder episode Rocky Eight and a Half (both characters being boxing trainers). He was a member of the Grand Order of Water Rats, and served as its "King Rat".
Selected filmography
Orders Are Orders (1954) as Bit Role (uncredited)
The Cockleshell Heroes (1955) as Marine Ruddock
Private's Progress (1956) as Lance Corporal Parsons (uncredited)
Women Without Men (1956) as Patrick
The Intimate Stranger (1956) as Police Sgt. Brown
The Long Arm (1956) as Detective Car Lot. (uncredited)
The Counterfeit Plan (1957) as Sam Watson
These Dangerous Years (1957) as Sgt. Lockwood
Strangers' Meeting (1957) as Fred
The Naked Truth (1957) as Constable Johnson
The Silent Enemy (1958) as Sergeant
Scotland Yard (1958, Episode: "The James Case") as Inspector Travers
The Safecracker (1958) as Parachute Instructor
No Time to Die (1958) as Maj. Fred Patterson, Australian POW
Up the Creek (1958) as Scouse
Ice Cold in Alex (1958) as C.M.P. Captain (Tank Trap)
Girls at Sea (1958) as Cpl. Duckett
I Was Monty's Double (1958) as Sergeant R.A.P.C.
Further Up the Creek (1958) as Scouse
I Only Arsked! (1958) as Sergeant Potty Chambers
Idol on Parade (1959) as Shorty
Life in Emergency Ward 10 (1959) as Mr. Phillips
Yesterday's Enemy (1959) as Perkins
Bobbikins (1959) as Hargreave – Investigator from Scotland Yard
The Ugly Duckling (1959) as Peewee
I'm All Right Jack (1959) as Card Player
The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1959) (uncredited)
Two-Way Stretch (1960) as Jelly Knight
Jazz Boat (1960) as Holy Mike
The League of Gentlemen (1960) as C.S.M.
Never Let Go (1960) as Cliff
Watch Your Stern (1960) as Security sergeant
The Bulldog Breed (1960) as CPO Knowles
The Hellfire Club (1961) as Timothy
Carry On Regardless (1961) as Wine Connoisseur
No My Darling Daughter (1961) as Flanigan
Raising the Wind (1961) as Taxi Driver
Mrs. Gibbons' Boys (1962) as Frank Gibbons
Go to Blazes (1962) as Sergeant
The Pirates of Blood River (1962) as Smith
Captain Clegg (1962) as Navy Bosun
The Boys (1962) as Mr. Herne
Kill or Cure (1962) as Richards – Male Nurse
The Dock Brief (1962) as Frank Bateson the Lodger
On the Beat (1962) as Inspector Cecil Hobson
Two Left Feet (1963) as Bill
The Long Ships (1964) as Olla
Saturday Night Out (1964) as Arthur
A Shot in the Dark (1964) as Georges Duval
Guns at Batasi (1964) as Sgt. 'Muscles' Dunn
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965) as Ship's captain
Catch Us If You Can (1965) as Louis
The Intelligence Men (1965) as Stage Manager
San Ferry Ann (1965) as Dad
Cup Fever (1965) as Mr. Bates
The Alphabet Murders (1965) as Sergeant
The Early Bird (1965) as Angry Husband (uncredited)
The Wrong Box (1966) as Corpse Remover (uncredited)
The Sandwich Man (1966) as Charlie
After the Fox as Corpse Remover (uncredited)
Press for Time (1966) as Mr. Ross (editor, 'Tinmouth Times')
Casino Royale (1967) (uncredited)
Smashing Time (1967) as The Caretaker
Seven Times Seven (1968) as Police Sergeant
Only When I Larf (1968)
Corruption (1968) as Groper
Headline Hunters (1968) as Harry
The Fixer (1968) as Zhitnyak
What's Good for the Goose (1969) as Porter
Crooks and Coronets (1969) as Policeman
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) as Recruiting Sergeant at Music Hall
The Smashing Bird I Used to Know (1969) as Richard Johnson
The Magic Christian (1969) as Ship's Guide
Incense for the Damned (1970) as Colonel
Scream and Scream Again (1970) as Detective Inspector Phil Strickland (credit only)
Eyewitness (1970) as Local Policeman
Hoffman (1970) as Foreman
Toomorrow (1970) as 1st Policeman (uncredited)
Scramble (1970) (uncredited)
The Railway Children (1970) as Bandmaster
On the Buses (1971) as Busman
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (1971) as Guest Appearance (segment "Sloth")
The Fiend (1972) as C.I.D. Inspector
Nobody Ordered Love (1972) as Sergeant
Mutiny on the Buses (1972) as Safari Guard
Raising the Roof (1972) as Manager
Hide and Seek (1972) as Baker
The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972) as Mr. Wickens
Go for a Take (1972) as Graham
Carry On Girls (1973) as Police Inspector
Ghost in the Noonday Sun (1973) as Zante
QB VII (1974) as Sgt. Flory
Carry On Dick (1974) as Bullock
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) as Mac
Carry On Behind (1975) as Landlord
Carry On England (1976) as Captain Bull
Sahara (1983) as Ewing
Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984) as Inspector Goule
Edge of Sanity (1989) as Underwood
References
External links
Obituary
English male television actors
English male film actors
People from Rochester, Kent
Deaths from cancer in England
1921 births
2003 deaths
Male actors from Kent
Military personnel from Kent
Royal Air Force personnel of World War II