Captain Mainwaring Flag patterned arrowhead to reflect the opening credits of the TV series and the sculpture has been designed so that one can sit next to Captain Mainwaring and have one's photo taken. In the 2016 film based on the sitcom, Mainwaring is played by Toby Jones. In 2019, the three episodes of Dads Army that are missing from the BBC archives are being re-shot by UKTV Channel GOLD, in which actor Kevin McNally will take on the mantle of Captain Mainwaring. Captain Mainwaring Captain George Mainwaring () is a fictional character portrayed by Arthur Lowe in the BBC television sitcom
Daniel Mainwaring Daniel Mainwaring Daniel Mainwaring (July 22, 1902 – January 31, 1977) was an American novelist and screenwriter. A native of Oakland, California, he began his professional career as a journalist for the "San Francisco Chronicle" and enjoyed a successful career as a mystery novelist (under the name Geoffrey Homes). He worked as a film publicist and eventually abandoned fiction for a successful career as a screenwriter. His first novel (and the only one he ever published under his own name), "One Against the Earth", was a proletarian novel about a young man born on a California ranch who becomes a