| birth_place = [[w:Johannesburg|Johannesburg]], South Africa ...'''; 8 May 1913 – 26 April 1976) was a British actor and comedian, born in South Africa, whose career encompassed radio, stage and screen, he was best known

...26–2010)}}</ref> Both his parents were social workers with the [[Salvation Army]].<ref name="Telegraph"/> As a boy, he attended the [[Queen Elizabeth's Sch ...9.<ref name="Telegraph"/>) He also served as a captain in the [[Royal West African Frontier Force]].<ref name="Telegraph"/>

...ohnston and writer [[Laurie Wyman]] both contemplated an Air Force- and an Army-themed sitcom before going to the BBC with ''The Navy Lark''. Wyman include ...the ''[[Poppadom]]'', appears in several episodes manned by various Potani officers voiced by [[Michael Bates (actor)|Michael Bates]] and [[Ronnie Barker]].

...London, and began touring with her family's theatre company. While touring South Africa on 23 October 1923, their only child, [[Glynis Johns|Glynis Margaret ...his stage debut while he and his first wife, Alice Steele, were touring [[South Africa]] in 1923. He had various roles in [[West End theatre|West End]] pro

...spoofing [[MTV]]); reporting on the fictitious and psychotically violent [[African-American]] [[rapper]] Fur-Q; and ''Genutainment'', a segment which reports ...t dogs were being released in London by the [[Provisional Irish Republican Army|IRA]]. These "bomb dogs" wreak havoc, and prompt the British police to begi

...nchitis, I'm a bit tight tonight", or "coughing better tonight".<ref name="South Bank Show" /> One of his main characters was that of John Willie, an "arche [[File:George Formby with the army in France, 1940 cropped.jpg|thumb|upright=1.15|right|Formby in France durin