Windsor Davies
Battery Sergeant-Major `Shut Up' Williams
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- Melvyn HayesBombardier `Gloria' Beaumont
- Donald HewlettColonel Charles Reynolds
- Don EstelleGunner `Lofty' Sugden
- Michael KnowlesCaptain Jonathan Ashwood
- Christopher MitchellGunner `Parky' Parkin
- John CleggGunner `Paderewski' Graham
- Stuart McGuganGunner `Atlas' Mackintosh
- Dino ShafeekChar Wallah Muhammed
- Mike KinseyGunner `Nosher' Evans
Kenneth MacDonaldGunner `Nobby' Clark- Barbar BhattiPunka Wallah Rumzan
It Ain't Half Hot Mum (TV Series 1974–1981) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
It Ain't Half Hot Mum is a British television sitcom about a Royal Artillery concert party based in Deolali in British India and the fictional village of Tin Min in Burma, during the final months of the Second World War.
It Ain't Half Hot, Mum - Full Cast & Crew. British soldiers stationed in India during WWII form a musical theater troupe and try to outwit the scheming Sergeant-Major Williams in this...
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It Ain't Half Hot Mum: With Windsor Davies, Melvyn Hayes, Donald Hewlett, Don Estelle. The comic adventures of a group of misfits who form an extremely bad concert party touring the hot and steamy jungles of Burma entertaining the troops during World War II.
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- 1974-01-03
- Comedy, War
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- Melvyn Haynes
- Don Estelle
- Windsor Davies
- Michael Bates
- Donald Hewlett
- Michael Knowles
- George Layton
- John Clegg
- Kenneth Macdonald
- Christopher Mitchell
Although nothing has matched the profile of It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Haynes has remained busy since the sitcom ended. Screen credits include Drop The Dead Donkey, where he played the rich husband of newsreader Sally Smedley, a recurring role as Michael Rawlins in EastEnders in 2005 and a camp role as Mr Pink in ITV's Benidorm in 2011. He has also bee...
A talented tenor, Estelle had a Number 1 hit in 1975 with a semi-comic version of Whispering Grass, sung in character with Davies. But the post-sitcom years were not kind to him, with IMBD listing just six credits after 1981, the last being his 1999 appearances as Little Don in The League Of Gentlemen. In his autobiography of that same year, Sing L...
After It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Davies went on to star in another long-running sitcom, appearing opposite Donald Sinden as Oliver Smallbridge in ITV's Never The Twain about rival antiques dealers during the 1980s. His last role was playing an elderly night porter in the BBC sitcom My Family in 2004. He died last Thursday at 88.
Bates – who had previously appeared in Last Of The Summer Wine and as a prison guard in A Clockwork Orange – had the most controversial role in It Ain't Half Hot Mum, adopting 'brownface' to play the Indian character of Rangi Ram. He died of cancer in 1978, aged just 57, midway through It Ain't Half Hot Mum's seven-year run.
Hewlett (pictured above with Michael Knowles on the left) went on to star in two more sitcoms from It Ain't Half Hot Mum writers David Croftand Jimmy Perry: Come Back Mrs. Noah – a comedy sometimes dubbed one of the worst sitcoms ever made, and which revolved around Mollie Sugden playing a housewife in space – and the stately home sitcom You Rang M...
Maintaining his screen partnership with Hewlett, Knowles also appeared in Come Back Mrs. Noah and You Rang M'Lord? He also provided the voice of the head of the Air Force in the 1989 animated movie of Roald Dahl's The BFG. Knowles – who had appeared in Dad's Army – also co-created the radio sitcom It Sticks Out Half a Mile, a sequel which imagined ...
Already a star because of his role in the Doctor series and as one of the co-hosts of Esther Rantzen's That's Life!, Layton had a successful career as a writer and an actor after leaving It Ain't Half Hot Mum in its second series Writing credits included On the Buses, Nearest And Dearest, and My Name Is Harry Worth – all of which he penned with fut...
Clegg has had several small screen roles since his memorable appearance as the 'la-di-dah' gunner, including You Rang, M'Lord, Coogan's Run and Bridget Jones' Diary. He was married to Mavis Pugh, who played Lady Lavender in You Rang, M'Lord, until her death in 2006
After the concert party of It Ain't Half Hot Mum disbanded, MacDonald became a regular in another hit sitcom – playing pub landlord Mike in Only Fools and Horse. He died in August 2001 at the age of 50, after suffering a massive heart attack, while on holiday with his family in Hawaii.
Following It Ain't Half Hot Mum, he appeared in two episodes of Only Fools and Horses as policeman Terry Hoskins, and as the recurring character of Ron Bigmore in Mr Majeika. He was briefly reunited with Windsor Davies in Never The Twain, playing a barman in two 1988 episodes. Mitchell died from cancer at the age of 53, in 2001 a month before his f...
It Ain't Half Hot Mum. India, 1944 - a Royal Artillery Concert Party try to avoid going in to action by performing for the troops with their brand of camp entertainment. Stars Windsor Davies, Don Estelle, Melvyn Hayes, Michael Bates, George Layton and more.
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The comic adventures of a group of misfits who form an extremely bad concert party touring the hot and steamy jungles of Burma entertaining the troops during World War II.
