Leslie Dwyer

Leslie Dwyer
in The Way Ahead (1944)
Born	Leslie Gilbert Dwyer (1906-08-28)28 August 1906 Catford, London, England
Died	26 December 1986(1986-12-26) (aged 80) Truro, Cornwall, England
Resting place	East London Cemetery
Occupation	Actor

Leslie Gilbert Dwyer (28 August 1906 – 26 December 1986^[1][2]) was an English film and television actor.^[3]

Career

He was born in Catford, the son of the popular music hall comedian Johnny Dwyer, and acted from the age of ten and appeared in his first film in 1921. He is perhaps best known to television audiences for his role as the Punch and Judy man Mr Partridge in BBC sitcom Hi-de-Hi!. Film roles included In Which We Serve (1942), The Way Ahead (1944), the 1952 remake of Hindle Wakes, Act of Love (1953) in which he played a two hander scene opposite the young Brigitte Bardot, Room in the House (1955), the 1959 remake of Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, and Die, Monster, Die! (1966).^[4]

He played Sergeant Dusty Miller in the original 1942 production of Terence Rattigan's play Flare Path.^[5]

He played Drinkwater in the 1953 television production of George Bernard Shaw's Captain Brassbound's Conversion. His most notable television role was as Mr. Partridge, the miserable, hard-drinking Punch and Judy man with an aversion to children, in the British sitcom Hi-de-Hi!. He took roles in Public Eye in 1969, Doctor Who (as Vorg in Carnival of Monsters in 1973) and in Steptoe and Son, Terry and June, Wodehouse Playhouse, Z-Cars^[4] and The Sweeney, in which he played "old sea dog" Ted Greenhead in the episode Trojan Bus.

Death

Dwyer died on 26 December 1986, aged 80 (respiratory failure due to pulmonary embolism). His grave is located in the East London Cemetery.^[6]

Selected filmography

• Cheer Up (1936) – Hotel Guest (uncredited)
• In Which We Serve (1942) – Parkinson
• The Goose Steps Out (1942) – German Soldier on Train (uncredited)
• Schweik's New Adventures (1943) – Prisoner
• Yellow Canary (1943) – Ship's Steward (uncredited)
• The Lamp Still Burns (1943) – Siddons
• The Way Ahead (1944) – Pte. Sid Beck
• Great Day (1945) – Pub Customer
• Perfect Strangers (1945) – Stripey
• Night Boat to Dublin (1946) – George Leggett
• I See a Dark Stranger (1946) – Soldier in Cafe (uncredited)
• This Man Is Mine (1946) – Van Driver (uncredited)
• Piccadilly Incident (1946) – Sam
• Temptation Harbour (1947) – Reg
• The Little Ballerina (1947) – Barman
• When the Bough Breaks (1947) – George
• The Calendar (1948) – Sam Hillcott
• Bond Street (1948) – Barman
• The Bad Lord Byron (1949) – Fletcher
• It's Not Cricket (1949) – Batman
• A Boy, a Girl and a Bike (1949) – Steve Hall
• Now Barabbas (1949) – Brown
• Poet's Pub (1949) – Holly
• Double Confession (1950) – Leonard
• Lilli Marlene (1950) – Berry
• Midnight Episode (1950) – Albert
• Smart Alec (1951) – Gossage
• Laughter in Paradise (1951) – Police Sergeant
• There Is Another Sun (1951) – Foley
• Judgment Deferred (1952) – Flowers
• The Hour of 13 (1952) – Ernie Perker
• My Wife's Lodger (1952) – Roger the Lodger
• Hindle Wakes (1952) – Chris Hawthorn
• Marilyn (1953) – George Saunders
• Act of Love (1953) – Le sergent anglais
• The Good Die Young (1954) – Stookey
• The Black Rider (1954) – Robert Plack
• Where There's a Will (1955) – Alfie Brewer
• Room in the House (1955) – Benji Pugh
• Not So Dusty (1956) – Nobby
• Cloak Without Dagger (1956) – Fred Borcombe
• Eyewitness (1956) – Henry Cammon
• Face in the Night (1957) – Toby
• Stormy Crossing (1958) – Bill Harris
• The 39 Steps (1959) – Milkman
• Left Right and Centre (1959) – Left – Alf Stoker
• I've Gotta Horse (1965) – Bert
• Die, Monster, Die! (1965) (UK title: Monster of Terror) – Potter
• The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968) – Bookshop assistant
• Lionheart (1968) – Carpenter
• Crooks and Coronets (1969) – Henry
• Dominique (1978) – Cemetery Supervisor

References

1. GRO Register of Deaths: DEC 1986 21 674 TRURO – Leslie Gilbert Dwyer, DoB = 28 Aug 1906, aged 80
2. BFI
3. "Leslie Dwyer". BFI. Archived from the original on 16 July 2012.
4. Leslie Dwyer at IMDb
5. Rattigan, Terence (2001). The Collected Plays of Terence Rattigan, Volume One, The Early Plays 1936–1952, p. 80. The Paper Tiger; ISBN 978-1-889439-27-3.
6. NNDB

External links

• Leslie Dwyer at IMDb