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Christopher Mitchell Driver (21 May 1948 – 22 February 2001) was a British
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known for his role in the
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It Ain't Half Hot Mum ''It Ain't Half Hot, Mum'' is a BBC television sitcom about a Royal Artillery concert party based in Deolali in British India and the fictional village of Tin Min in Burma, during the last months of the Second World War. It was written by Jimmy ...
'' as Gunner Nigel 'Parky' Parkin. His film credits include ''
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" (also titled "Mulberry Bush" or "This Is the Way") is an English nursery rhyme and singing game. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7882. It uses the tune which Nancy Dawson danced into fame in ''Th ...
'' (1967), '' This, That and the Other'' (1969), ''
The Sex Thief ''The Sex Thief'' is a 1973 British sex comedy film starring David Warbeck, Diane Keen and Christopher Biggins. It was an early film credit for director Martin Campbell. The film was released in North America (in January 1976) as ''Her Family ...
'' (1973) and ''
What's Up Superdoc! ''What's Up Superdoc!'' is a 1978 British sex comedy film, directed by Derek Ford and starring Harry H. Corbett, Christopher Mitchell, Melvyn Hayes, Julia Goodman, Hughie Green, Bill Pertwee, Angela Grant, Chic Murray, Beth Porter and Sheil ...
'' (1978). He appeared in two episodes of ''
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", 1983 and "
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", 1985), playing policeman Terry Hoskins. In addition he had parts in many other comedies such as: ''
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''; ''
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'' and '' That's My Boy''. He died from
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at the age of 52, a month before his father, actor
Norman Mitchell Norman Mitchell Driver (27 August 1918 – 19 March 2001), known professionally as Norman Mitchell, was an English television, stage and film actor. Born in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, his father was a mining engineer and his mother a ...
, and in the same year as Kenneth MacDonald, another actor with a role as a gunner in ''It Ain't Half Hot Mum'', who died of a heart attack aged 50.


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* 1948 births 2001 deaths Deaths from liver cancer Deaths from cancer in England British male television actors 20th-century English male actors {{UK-actor-stub