Who did jimmy perry play in dads army?
The series did though have doubters within the BBC who feared mocking the Home Guard would not be well received. Perry recalled in 1997 that the BBC "did audience research on it before it went out. They showed the first episode to audiences for three whole days, and 99 per cent of people loathed it. They said, 'That bald-headed old man [Captain Mainwaring] doesn't even know his lines'." Despite the doubts, the first episode was screened on 31 July 1968, with Perry making a cameo appearance as the entertainer Charlie Cheeseman in the sixth episode, "Shooting Pains". At its peak, the show had ratings of 18 million. It ran for nine years, from 1968 to 1977, and led to two film versions (released in 1971 and 2016), a stage show and a radio version.
For what role did Jimmy Perry have a cameo in Dad's Army?
Charlie Cheeseman
Jimmy Perry
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Who was Jimmy Perry supposed to play in Dad's Army?
Walker
Jimmy Perry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy%20Perry
James Perry, OBE (20 September 1923 – 23 October 2016) was an English script writer and actor. He devised and co-wrote the BBC sitcoms Dad's Army (1968–77), It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1974–81), Hi-De-Hi (1980–88) and You Rang, M'Lord? (1988–93), all with David Croft. 
Jimmy Perry
Perry, credited with the original idea for Dad's Army, conceived the sitcom with the role of Walker in mind for himself, but Croft and Mills successfully dissuaded him.
Jimmy Perry
The list contains the main characters of Dad's Army: Private Joe Walker (James Beck), a black market spiv, Walker was one of only two able-bodied men of military age among the main characters (the other one being Private Pike).
Dad's Army
Jimmy Perry, one of the writers and creators of the BBC sitcom Dad's Army, initially intended to play the role of black market goods vendor Private Joe Walker, but was later talked out of the idea. Instead, he made a cameo appearance in the show's sixth episode as entertainer Charlie Cheeseman.