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Atholl Fleming (6 December 1894 - 6 May 1972) was a British actor and an Australian radio personality. He was the third of nine children of R. S. Fleming, a Scottish Baptist minister of Beckenham in Kent. After a fall as a child, he became deaf in his right ear. He saw fighting in France during World War I with the Royal West Kent Regiment, notably the Battle of the Somme, and was wounded three times - a shrapnel wound, a bayonet wound and gas injuries. After the War, he abandoned a career with the Bank of England for the stage, appearing in a number of Whitehall farces and dramas on BBC... MORE

Atholl Fleming (6 December 1894 - 6 May 1972) was a British actor and an Australian radio personality. He was the third of nine children of R. S. Fleming, a Scottish Baptist minister of Beckenham in Kent. After a fall as a child, he became deaf in his right ear. He saw fighting in France during World War I with the Royal West Kent Regiment, notably the Battle of the Somme, and was wounded three times - a shrapnel wound, a bayonet wound and gas injuries. After the War, he abandoned a career with the Bank of England for the stage, appearing in a number of Whitehall farces and dramas on BBC television at Alexandra Palace. He starred in People Like Us at The Strand in 1929. He toured Australia in 1932 with Dame Sybil Thorndike and Sir Lewis Casson, (playing Dunois in St Joan and Macduff in the Scottish play) and while in Sydney married fellow company member, Phyllis Best, daughter of Sir Robert Best of Hawthorn, Victoria. Their son Robert was born in 1933. Fleming appeared in a number of British films throughout the 1930s most notably as Bulldog Drummond in the Jack Hulbert comedy thriller Bulldog Jack (1935). With the outbreak of the Second World War, he volunteered for duty but was LESS