Before Doctor Who, The Wombles, The Railway Children and even Carry On Jack, the late great Bernard Cribbins saw action as a Para in Palestine during his National Service.
It was "six months of getting shot at; I don’t recommend it", he recalled. Yet despite near misses, the actor, who died last week aged 93, was only injured when he returned to acting.
Here in extracts from his autobiography Bernard Who?: 75 Years of Doing Just About Everything, he tells all about his close shaves with bombs and bullets, a bum deal in the desert and working with the very first Bond girl.
