Frank Williams, who has died aged 90, was a character actor who found lasting fame as Timothy Farthing, the dithering, ineffectual vicar in the classic TV sitcom Dad’s Army.
His sulky character was seen navigating a course between the fictional Walmington-on-Sea’s Home Guard, defending England’s south coast during the Second World War – with the pompous Captain Mainwaring (played by Arthur Lowe) commandeering the church hall and vicar’s office, to his disgruntlement – and the uncouth chief air raid warden Hodges (Bill Pertwee), forever crying: “Put that light out!”
