Jimmy Perry, creator of popular comedy television series Dad's Army, has died aged 93.
Perry was also responsible for several other popular television programmes, such as It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Hi-de-Hi! and You Rang M'Lord?
Dad's Army ran for over nine years from its launch in 1968, lasting for 80 episodes during that period.
Perry was born on September 20 1923 in London.
Perry based many of the characters for Dad’s Army on the soldiers he met during his time serving his local home guard during World War Two.
After the war, he trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, before going on to run the Palace Theatre and playing bit parts in TV sitcoms, before he began to write them himself.
He showed his ideas for Dad's Army - initially called The Fighting Tigers - to the late producer David Croft, who then took it to the BBC.
The character Private Pike, played by Ian Lavender, was based on Perry himself.
Croft and Perry went on to collaborate on shows including It Ain't Half Hot Mum, which began in 1974 and was based around their wartime experiences in the Far East, and Hi-de-Hi!, about a 1950s holiday camp, which ran for eight years.
Perry won an Ivor Novello Award in 1971 for the Dad's Army theme Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Mr Hitler?.
He was awarded an OBE in 1978 and is survived by his wife, Gilda Perry.
