Talfryn Thomas

Talfryn Thomas was a Welsh character actor, best known for supporting roles on television in the 1970s, including those of Private Cheeseman in Dad's Army (1973–1974) and Tom Price in Survivors (1975), while Thomas also appeared with Jon Pertwee in two Doctor Who serials. Thomas also served as a rear gunner on a Lancaster bomber in the Royal Air Force during World War II, where he flew on multiple raids into Germany. After surviving a crash in which all the other crew members were killed, he took up acting partly as therapy to cope with the trauma.