Leslie Dwyer

Leslie Gilbert Dwyer (28 August 1906 – 26 December 1986 ) was an English film and television actor.

Career He was born in Catford, the son of the popular music hall comedian Johnny Dwyer, and acted from the age of ten and appeared in his first film in 1921. He is perhaps best known to television audiences for his role as the Punch and Judy man Mr Partridge in BBC sitcom Hi-de-Hi!. Film roles included In Which We Serve (1942), The Way Ahead (1944), the 1952 remake of Hindle Wakes, Act of Love (1953) in which he played a two hander scene opposite the young Brigitte Bardot, Room in the House (1955), the 1959 remake of Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, and Die, Monster, Die! (1966).

He played Sergeant Dusty Miller in the original 1942 production of Terence Rattigan's play Flare Path.

He played Drinkwater in the 1953 television production of George Bernard Shaw's Captain Brassbound's Conversion. His most notable television role was as Mr. Partridge, the miserable, hard-drinking Punch and Judy man with an aversion to children, in the British sitcom Hi-de-Hi!. He took roles in Public Eye in 1969, Doctor Who (as Vorg in Carnival of Monsters in 1973) and in Steptoe and Son, Terry and June, Wodehouse Playhouse, Z-Cars

Selected filmography

Cheer Up (1936) – Hotel Guest (uncredited) In Which We Serve (1942) – Parkinson The Goose Steps Out (1942) – German Soldier on Train (uncredited) Schweik's New Adventures (1943) – Prisoner Yellow Canary (1943) – Ship's Steward (uncredited) The Lamp Still Burns (1943) – Siddons The Way Ahead (1944) – Pte. Sid Beck Great Day (1945) – Pub Customer Perfect Strangers (1945) – Stripey Night Boat to Dublin (1946) – George Leggett I See a Dark Stranger (1946) – Soldier in Cafe (uncredited) This Man Is Mine (1946) – Van Driver (uncredited) Piccadilly Incident (1946) – Sam Temptation Harbour (1947) – Reg The Little Ballerina (1947) – Barman When the Bough Breaks (1947) – George The Calendar (1948) – Sam Hillcott Bond Street (1948) – Barman The Bad Lord Byron (1949) – Fletcher It's Not Cricket (1949) – Batman A Boy, a Girl and a Bike (1949) – Steve Hall Now Barabbas (1949) – Brown Poet's Pub (1949) – Holly Double Confession (1950) – Leonard Lilli Marlene (1950) – Berry Midnight Episode (1950) – Albert Smart Alec (1951) – Gossage Laughter in Paradise (1951) – Police Sergeant There Is Another Sun (1951) – Foley Judgment Deferred (1952) – Flowers The Hour of 13 (1952) – Ernie Perker My Wife's Lodger (1952) – Roger the Lodger Hindle Wakes (1952) – Chris Hawthorn Marilyn (1953) – George Saunders Act of Love (1953) – Le sergent anglais The Good Die Young (1954) – Stookey The Black Rider (1954) – Robert Plack Where There's a Will (1955) – Alfie Brewer Room in the House (1955) – Benji Pugh Not So Dusty (1956) – Nobby Cloak Without Dagger (1956) – Fred Borcombe Eyewitness (1956) – Henry Cammon Face in the Night (1957) – Toby Stormy Crossing (1958) – Bill Harris The 39 Steps (1959) – Milkman Left Right and Centre (1959) – Left – Alf Stoker I've Gotta Horse (1965) – Bert Die, Monster, Die! (1965) (UK title: Monster of Terror) – Potter The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968) – Bookshop assistant Lionheart (1968) – Carpenter Crooks and Coronets (1969) – Henry Leave it to Charlie (1978) – Arnold Merryweather, Episode: "Love and Mrs. McGee" Dominique (1979) – Cemetery Supervisor