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Donald Hewlett

Actor
29 August 1920 to 3 June 2011

Best known to British audiences for his role as the wonderfully vague Colonel Reynolds in the David Croft-Jimmy Perry sitcom It Ain’t Half Hot Mum (1974-81), Hewlett was a character actor active on stage and the occasional film. He later reunited with Croft and Perry for You Rang M’Lord? (1988-1993).

- Read Donald Hewlett's Guardian obituary.

- Read Donald Hewlett's Telegraph obituary.