John Clegg was an actor and long term member of Chichester Literary Society. He died peacefully, aged 90, at Dovecote View on August 2nd, 2024.
In a career of well over fifty years he appeared in plays, feature films, comedies, dramas, thrillers, one-man shows, musicals, revues, farces, television plays, television series, television comedy shows, and pantomimes. He played in theatres, arts centres, venues, film studios, television studios, radio studios and on location everywhere in the British Isles from Aberdeen to Plymouth, Ireland (North and South), the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, across the Channel and across the Atlantic.
He is best remembered for the eight series he spent as Gunner Graham in ‘It Ain’t Half Hot , Mum’ and two one-man shows of Rudyard Kipling’s Life and Works, ‘A Place in the Sun’.
He was married to actress/director Mavis Pugh for forty-seven very happy years.
John has performed both parts of ‘In the Eye of the Sun’, a life of Rudyard Kipling, and spoke on and recited ‘The Rubayyat of Omar Khayyam’. He has entertained the Society with an evening of Noel Coward in 2014 and a talk on Thomas Hardy at the October 2015 meeting. In 2017 he reflected on My Life as as Actor. Below is a summary of his entertaining talks at our monthly meetings.
The Persian and the Irishman (Omar Khayyam) – 2012
A Cowardly Evening – 2014
Mystery of Thomas Hardy – 2015
Dickens of an Evening – 2017
My Life as an Actor – 2017
Raymond Chandler – July 2018
Xmas Readings – 2018
Words Meeting 2019 – Mad Dogs and Englishmen (N.Coward) and Gran Can You Rap?
A long chronological list of his acting credits can be found on Wikipedia.