John Devon Roland "Jon" Pertwee (7 July 1919 â€" 20 May 1996) was an
English actor, comedian, entertainer and cabaret performer. Born into
a theatrical family, he served in the Royal Navy and the Naval
Intelligence Division during the Second World War. In his early career
he worked as a stage comedian, which included performing at the
Glasgow Empire Theatre and sharing a bill with Max Wall and Jimmy
James.As an actor Pertwee appeared in many comedy roles, including
four films in the Carry On series, and he became widely known for
spending 18 years (1959â€"1977) playing Chief Petty Officer Pertwee
(and three other roles) in the popular sitcom The Navy Lark on BBC
Radio. He played the Third Doctor in the science fiction television
series Doctor Who (between 1970 and 1974) and the title character in
the television series Worzel Gummidge (between 1979 and
1981â€"reprising the role from 1987 to 1989). Towards the end of his
life he maintained a close association with Doctor Who by appearing at
many fan conventions related to the series and giving interviews. He
also performed a one-man show called Who Is Jon Pertwee?.Born in
Chelsea, London, and having French Huguenot ancestry (his surname was
an Anglicisation of "Perthuis"; the origins of his surname being "de
Perthuis de Laillevault", the family being Counts descended from
Charlemagne). Jon was the son of screenwriter and actor Roland Pertwee
and distant cousin of actor Bill Pertwee. Pertwee's mother, Avice
Scholtz, separated from his father Roland when Pertwee was young. His
father remarried, and his mother found a new partner, Louis Auguste De
La Garde, with whom Pertwee did not build a relationship; she died in
1951, leaving Pertwee's older brother Michael as her executor. Avice's
sister Daphne married Captain Philip Cecil Clowes and became the
mother of Pertwee's cousin, the writer St. John Legh Clowes
(1907â€"1951). Actor Henry Ainley, a close friend of his father, was
his godfather. Coincidentally, Ainley's son Anthony appeared as the
Master â€" a renegade Time Lord who was The Doctor's greatest enemy
â€" alongside Pertwee in the Doctor Who anniversary story The Five
Doctors (1983).Pertwee was educated at Frensham Heights School, an
independent school in Rowledge, near Farnham in Surrey, at Sherborne
School in Dorset, and at some other schools from which he was
expelled. After school, he was admitted to the Royal Academy of
Dramatic Art (RADA), from which he was also expelled after he refused
to play a Greek "wind" during one of the lessons, feeling it was a
waste of both his time and his father's money. He was also accused of
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