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Michael Hugh Medwin OBE (born 18 July 1923) is an English actor and film producer. Born in London, he was educated at Canford School, Dorset and the Institute Fischer, Montreux, Switzerland. He first appeared on stage in 1940. He is probably best known for his role as radio boss Don Satchley in the BBC television detective series Shoestring and for his role in The Army Game, a British television comedy series of the late 1950s and early 1960s. With Bernard Bresslaw, Leslie Fyson and Alfie Bass, he took the theme tune from The Army Game into the UK Singles Chart in 1958, where it peaked at... MORE

Michael Hugh Medwin OBE (born 18 July 1923) is an English actor and film producer. Born in London, he was educated at Canford School, Dorset and the Institute Fischer, Montreux, Switzerland. He first appeared on stage in 1940. He is probably best known for his role as radio boss Don Satchley in the BBC television detective series Shoestring and for his role in The Army Game, a British television comedy series of the late 1950s and early 1960s. With Bernard Bresslaw, Leslie Fyson and Alfie Bass, he took the theme tune from The Army Game into the UK Singles Chart in 1958, where it peaked at number 5. As well as his role in Shoestring, he played Colin's boss Mr Langley (of the Langley Book Of Horror) in the Mel Smith comedy series Colin's Sandwich. He made many film appearances, including Carry On Nurse (1959) and The Longest Day (1962), before turning to producing films. Among the films he produced for Memorial Enterprises, a company he established with actor Albert Finney, are Charlie Bubbles (1967), directed by Finney and Lindsay Anderson's If.... (1968), which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. He worked again with Anderson on O Lucky Man! (1973) continuing the story LESS