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Ian Lavender: 'Dad's Army cost me a career in the movies'

by Stuart Jeffries

Ian Lavender was 22 when he was cast as mummy's boy Private Pike in Dad's Army. It was a role that would come to haunt his career, stopping him from getting meatier parts. His one-man Edinburgh show explains allThe artist formerly known as Stupid Boy arrives for lunch in a convertible Mini, Suffolk's summer breeze wafting through his white hair and beard as he pulls up outside the pub. Ian Lavender, 68, is most famou…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 8:45pm on May 16, 2016