David Lodge (actor) programmes (a running gag being that in each episode he or Spike would mention his role in "The Cockleshell Heroes"). He was very prolific during the 1950s, and in 1958 alone, he appeared in ten films. He appeared in a 1969 episode of "Randall and Hopkirk Deceased" ("Who Killed Cock Robin?"), and continuing with his military-type roles, appeared alongside Windsor Davies as Company Sergeant-Major Sharp in an episode of "It Ain't Half Hot Mum" in 1976. He also appeared with Windsor Davies (although they are not in the same scene) in Carry On England. Lodge played the role of drunk
Windsor Davies UK with a semi-comic version of "Whispering Grass" in 1975. Other television roles included the sailor Taffy in the first of the BBC-series "The Onedin Line" (1971), a special branch detective in "Callan_(TV_series)" (1972) and the antique dealer Oliver Smallbridge in "Never the Twain" (1981–91), with Donald Sinden. In the field of science fiction television, Davies appeared in the 1967 "Doctor Who" story "The Evil of the Daleks" as Toby; and was the voice of Sergeant Major Zero (a spherical robotic soldier in charge of 100 other spherical robotic soldiers) in the 1983 Gerry Anderson/Christopher Burr production "Terrahawks" (another callback