Moon Boots and Dunner Suits
Jon Pertwee’s acting career began with a public performance at the age of four. He seems to have been expelled from most schools his actor-writer father Roland Pertwee sent him to and finally joined RADA in 1936. From there too, he was asked to leave. Jon went into Rep and had a chequered career. In Brighton panic set in when he dressed as an old gardener in Love from a Stranger instead of as a young cleric in Candida.
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