David Lodge(1921-2003)

David was the son of a naval seaman at Gillingham and worked to help keep his family during the depression of the 30';s from working as a milkman to being a butchers boy. He found his acting talent in RAF concerts and later in music halls and pantomimes then a film casting agent who'd seen him as a demon king in pantomime offered him £20 a day to work on the film Cockleshell Heroes. Since then he;s made well over 60 films and spent about 6 months on the BBC tv serial United as the football manager Jerry Barford, He's married to Lyn, a French woman and lives in Richmond