Old Bill and Son
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Old Bill and Son is a 1941 British black-and-white comedy war film directed by Ian Dalrymple and starring Morland Graham, John Mills, Mary Clare and Ronald Shiner. It was written by Captain Bruce Bair
Old Bill and Son
Bruce Bairnsfather
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Captain Charles Bruce Bairnsfather was a prominent British humorist and cartoonist. His best-known cartoon character is Old Bill. Bill and his pals Bert and Alf featured in Bairnsfather's "Fragments f
Old Bill and Son
…black-and-white comedy war film directed by Ian Dalrymple and starring Morland Graham, John Mills, Mary Clare and Ronald Shiner. It was written by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, Dalrymple, Arthur Wimperis and Derek Twist, based on the story Old Bill by Bairnsfather. It was executive produced by Alexander Korda for Legeran…
Photo of the author, 1918, by Pirie MacDonald
"Well, if you knows of a better 'ole, go to it", Bairnsfather's best-known cartoon, 1915
"Old Bill", from Bullets & Billets: "First Discovered in the Alluvial Deposits of Southern Flanders. Feeds Almost Exclusively on Jam and Water Biscuits. Hobby: Filling Sandbags, on Dark and Rainy Nights".
"The Growth of Democracy" by Bruce Bairnsfather (1917). "Colonel Sir Valtravers Plantagenet gladly accepts a light, during a slight lull in a barrage, from a private in the Benin Rifles".