Donald Hewlett
30 August 1920 - 4 June 2011
Actor
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.