Name: David Lodge
Date of Birth: 19 August 1921 First film part was in "Orders are Orders" (1954), but this was cut before release. His father was a well-known orator and his mother a singer who won competitions as a child. Educated at St. Nicholas School in Golden Square, London where he enjoyed singing comic songs in school concerts. Roughhewn, mustachioed British character actor whose versatility was well admired in both military and comic roles. Was a friend of Peter Sellers and appeared frequently in his films. Before becoming an actor he worked as a circus clown and a ringmaster. ... He met Peter Sellers in the last days of the war when they were both posted to Gloucester. He later recounted that he was poking life into an ancient stove when he heard Sellers arguing fiercely at the far end of the hut with an airman "considerably larger than himself". Lodge removed the red-hot poker from the fire, walked down the hut and told the airman to "leave off or come outside with me". It ended the argument and began a lifelong friendship. "Pete just looked at me with those lovely sad eyes of his," Lodge told Sellers's biographer Peter Evans.and something just happened. I was a couple of years older than him, no more, but I became his big brother, father confessor, favourite uncle, the lot. Pete was the kind of a bloke who always needed somebody there. There always had to be somebody in his life he could telephone at three o'clock in the morning and know they'll be a friendly voice. (David Lodge Obituary, The Independent, Friday, 24th October 2003). Was best man at Peter Sellers wedding to Britt Ekland in 1964. In 1986 he wrote his autobiography, "Up the Ladder to Obscurity". Staunchly defended Peter Sellers when Seller's own son Michael wrote a scathing memoir. Read more David Lodge movies (actor)
Edge of Sanity [No links available]
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Dr. Jekyll et Mr. Hyde
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Bloodsuckers (1970) [No links available]
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Bloodsuckers
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On the Buses [No links available]
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Aufruhr im Busdepot
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