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Roland Pertwee (15 May 1885 – 26 April 1963) was an English playwright, film and television screenwriter, director and actor. He was the father of Doctor Who actor Jon Pertwee and playwright and screenwriter Michael Pertwee. He was also the second cousin of actor Bill Pertwee and grandfather of actors Sean Pertwee and Dariel Pertwee.
His uncle, Michael Pertwee, and grandfather, Roland Pertwee, were prolific screenwriters and playwrights, and his father's cousin, Bill Pertwee, was a regular cast member of one of Britain's most popular sitcoms, Dad's Army (1968). His sister, Dariel Pertwee, is an actress with several screen roles.
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He was the brother of Jon Pertwee, the son of Roland Pertwee, the screenwriter and actor of the 1910s–1950s, a distant cousin of Bill Pertwee, the character actor, and the uncle of actor Sean Pertwee.
His grandfather, Roland Pertwee, was an actor, screenwriter, and playwright. His uncle, Michael Pertwee, was a prolific screenwriter and playwright. His father, Jon Pertwee, was a famous actor, while and his older sister, Dariel, too, has made her name in the family profession.
Pertwee was born on 4 June 1964 in Hammersmith, London, the son of the actor Jon Pertwee (who played the Third Doctor in Doctor Who) and his German second wife, Ingeborg Rhoesa. Playwright and screenwriter Roland Pertwee was his grandfather; his sister is actress Dariel Pertwee.
He was the second son of famous playwright, painter and actor Roland Pertwee, and his actress wife Avice - his writer brother Michael Pertwee being three years his senior. The Pertwee family had a long connection with show business and the performing arts, and it was at Wellington House preparatory school in Westgate-On-Sea in Kent that Jon, as ...
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The entire series was written by father-and-son team Roland and Michael Pertwee, who helped develop the initial concept with producer John Warrington.
