Derek Nimmo of British films and television series, as aristocrats, including starring roles in the television comedy series "The World of Wooster" (as "Bingo Little"), and in the comedy film "One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing" (as "Lord Southmere"), as well as appearing in the James Bond spoof film "Casino Royale". Derek Nimmo made his name as the Reverend Mervyn Noote in the British sitcom "All Gas and Gaiters" (1966). At the time it was considered rather controversial because the main characters were senior churchmen (the Bishop, his chaplain Noote and the Archdeacon) who got into various scrapes as a result of
Mervyn Johns Mervyn Johns David Mervyn Johns (18 February 18996 September 1992) was a distinctive Welsh film and television character actor who became a star of British films during World War II. Continuing into the postwar era, he was a notable mainstay of Ealing Studios. Mervyn Johns started his career in the theatre in the 1920s, and then made his first film in 1935. Among his dozens of film roles were the church warden in "Went the Day Well?" (1942), the fearful architect Walter Craig in the mystery film "Dead of Night" (1945) and Bob Cratchit in "Scrooge" (1951) with Alastair Sim.