Jon Pertwee (1919–1996)
Author of Doctor Who: Inferno [videorecording]
About the Author
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Works by Jon Pertwee
Doctor Who Bred for War 7 copies
Worzel Gummidge 6 copies
Doctor Who: Jon Pertwee Complete Season Three (BD) [Blu-ray] — Actor — 3 copies
The Airzone Solution [VHS] 3 copies
The navy lark. 12, The comfort end 2 copies
Whodunnit: Series 5 1 copy
Doctor Who: Sea Devils, The 1 copy
Associated Works
Doctor Who : A Celebration—Two Decades Through Time and Space (1983) — "I Saw the Doctor as an Interplanetary Crusader" — 262 copies
Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon / The Monster of Peladon — Actor — 13 copies
The Ugly Duckling (1959) [DVD] — Actor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Pertwee, Jon
- Legal name
- Pertwee, John Devon Roland
- Birthdate
- 1919-07-07
- Date of death
- 1996-05-20
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- England
UK - Birthplace
- Chelsea, London, England, UK
- Place of death
- Connecticut, USA
- Education
- Frensham Heights School
Sherborne School, Dorset, UK
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art - Occupations
- actor
comedian - Relationships
- Pertwee, Roland (father)
Pertwee, Michael (brother)
Pertwee, Bill (cousin)
Marsh, Jean (wife|1955|divorced|1960) - Organizations
- Naval Intelligence Division
Royal Navy - Short biography
- Best known for playing the 3rd incarnation of the Doctor in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who from 1970 to 1974. He was born in Chelsea, London, Enlgand, UK. He died of a heart attack while in the US for a convention.
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Statistics
- Works
- 33
- Also by
- 34
- Members
- 311
- Popularity
- #75,820
- Rating
- 3.6
- Reviews
- 5
- ISBNs
- 20
First volume of Jon Pertwee’s autobiography, though he did not write much more apart from an out-of-print account of his time on Doctor Who. It’s an entertaining set of anecdotes about his early life, difficult relations with parents (he did not actually know that his father‘s friend was his biological mother), his wartime service in the navy (which takes up almost half of the book), his love of girls and cars. If I had been editing it, I might have taken out some of the exclamation marks.
Lots of names are dropped, many of them of showbiz figures now long forgotten, though a couple stood out; visiting his father’s friend A.A. Milne as a child, Milne’s son “was good enough to introduce me to his toy animal friends, Piglet, Owl, Kanga, Kanga’s son Roo, and best of all, his teddy bear, Winnie the Pooh.” At the other end of the book, when he is assigned to Naval Intelligence, one of his office-mates is future prime minister James Callaghan. (Callaghan, who lost the 1979 election, is the most recent prime minister to have served in the armed forces and the only one to have been in the Navy.)
But Doctor Who fans like me won’t find much to chew on here. Pertwee did not really have hidden depths; what you saw was what you got, and that personality is on display in his book.… (more)