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Godfrey's Ghost: From Father to Son

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December 2009 Book of the Month.

 

Godfrey’s Ghost is one of the most honest, yet revealing portraits of a man we’ve read in more than a long while.  The man is actor Arnold Ridley, probably best known for his late in life acting as Private Godfrey in Dad’s Army.  However, as you’ll find out when reading this memoir, there was much more to this man than the gentle, bumbling and rather endearing Godfrey of the small screen.  Firstly, he was the celebrated playwright of The Ghost Train, a classic which is still performed today and secondly he saw the horrors of two world wars.  His son Nicolas Ridley, in bringing us this memoir has used for reference, both Arnold’s unpublished autobiography as well as his own memories of his father and recollections of life as he was growing up an only child when his father was just a jobbing actor. The result is an original, touchingly truthful account of the life of a much-loved father who knew both fame and obscurity.  It’s a truly engaging and life-affirming read.

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