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Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)
Sat Jan 19, 2019, 05:13 PM Jan 2019

Whispering Grass (RIP Windsor Davies)

I'm somewhat hesitant in posting this here. In part because I suspect very people here know who these people are or what the context is.

There was a seventies TV sitcom set in WWII Burma, involving a British army entertainment group and a regular army Sergeant Major who despises them, called "It Aint Half Hot, Mum". It's very much of its time, but the BBC long ago stopped showing it because it would probably cause the same outrage, that, say, Blazing Saddles would cause if it were shown today.

The show was shown in many countries, but I'm pretty sure the US was not one of them.

The Sergeant Major was played by Welshman Windsor Davies, whose catchphrase was to bellow "Shut up!", and he died today at age 88.

The small man below (he was 4'9" ) is Don Estelle, and maybe you'll at least enjoy his suprisingly golden voice in the clip below:

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Whispering Grass (RIP Windsor Davies) (Original Post) Ron Obvious Jan 2019 OP
Enjoyed that! KT2000 Jan 2019 #1
Lovely boy Byronic Jan 2019 #2

Byronic

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2. Lovely boy
Sun Jan 20, 2019, 04:59 AM
Jan 2019

RIP Windsor. A fine comic actor. He also appeared, in the 1980s, in Never The Twain opposite Donald Sinden as warring antique shop owners.

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