page_title: John Clegg (actor)
hierarchical_section_title: John Clegg (actor)
caption_attribution_description: The actor John Clegg at a Dad's Army event at Bressingham Steam and Gardens
context_page_description: John Walter Lawrence Clegg is an Indian-born English actor best known for playing the part of 'Mr. La-di-da' Gunner 'Paderewski' Graham in the BBC sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum.
  Early Life and Career
  Clegg was born on the 9th of July 1934 in Murree, India to English parents. When he and his parents arrived back in England, Clegg joined the Watford Palace Theatre Company were he met Jimmy Perry, who would go on to cast Clegg in the role he is best known for. It is there that he also met many of his future co-stars including Michael Knowles, Donald Hewlett and Mavis Pugh who he married in 1959. Pugh went on to appear in various Croft andPerry sitcoms including Dad's Army, It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Hi-de-Hi, but she is best known for playing Lady Lavender Southwick in You Rang, M'Lord?. During his time at Watford Clegg appeared in many performances including farces like Charley's Aunt and The Happiest Days of Your Life. He also appeared in thrillers like Gas Light and Dial M for Murder.
  Later Television Career
  His first television role was DC Greaves in Dixon of Dock Green in 1961.
context_section_description: John Walter Lawrence Clegg (born 9 July 1934) is an Indian-born English actor best known for playing the part of 'Mr. La-di-da' Gunner 'Paderewski' Graham in the BBC sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum.
  Early Life and Career
  Clegg was born on the 9th of July 1934 in Murree, India (modern day Pakistan) to English parents. When he and his parents arrived back in England, Clegg joined the Watford Palace Theatre Company were he met Jimmy Perry, who would go on to cast Clegg in the role he is best known for. It is there that he also met many of his future co-stars including Michael Knowles, Donald Hewlett and Mavis Pugh who he married in 1959. Pugh went on to appear in various Croft andPerry sitcoms including Dad's Army, It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Hi-de-Hi, but she is best known for playing Lady Lavender Southwick in You Rang, M'Lord?. During his time at Watford Clegg appeared in many performances including farces like Charley's Aunt and The Happiest Days of Your Life. He also appeared in thrillers like Gas Light and Dial M for Murder.
  Later Television Career
  His first television role was DC Greaves in Dixon of Dock Green in 1961. He then went on to make many television appearances before  being cast in the role of Gunner Graham in the BBC sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum. The show ran for 8 series and Clegg appeared in all 56 episodes. Since It Ain't Half Hot Mum he has made numerous television and film appearances including Dad's Army, Are You Being Served? and  Bless This House. In 1981 he appeared with various other members of the It Ain't Half Hot Mum cast in game show Family Fortunes which saw them go head to head with the hosts of the show Give Us a Clue. In 1995 he appeared as a guest for David Croft onThis Is Your Life. He has most recently been seen in the 2001 film Bridget Jones's Diary playing Elderly Man, the 2003 television film Death in Holy Orders which was based on the book by P. D. James, Clegg played the character of Father John Betterton, and the 2006 short Tommy the Kid in which Clegg played a Police Officer.
  He also once had a one-man show playing Rudyard Kipling at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
caption: John Clegg in 2018
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