John Clegg (actor)

John Walter Laurence Clegg (9 July 1934 – 2 August 2024) was an English actor, best known for playing the part of 'La Di Da' Gunner Graham in the BBC sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum.

Pugh appeared in Croft and Perry 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?.

in which he played Mr Franklyn, the Meldrum family solicitor; in the series he featured alongside many actors who he had previously worked with on It Ain't Half Hot Mum including Michael Knowles and Donald Hewlett.

In 1982, Clegg made a return to the theatre, co-producing with his wife a one-man show about Rudyard Kipling which achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

[2] During the 1990s, Clegg had a bit part in Tom & Viv (1994) and played a vicar in the 1997 film Shooting Fish alongside Dan Futterman and Stuart Townsend.

In the same year Clegg featured alongside Helena Bonham Carter and Richard E. Grant in the British romantic comedy Keep the Aspidistra Flying (released in the USA and New Zealand as A Merry War), which was based on the novel by George Orwell.