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John Le Mesurier “It’s all been rather lovely.”
He wrote his own death notice in The Times which read: “John Le Mesurier wishes it to be known that he conked out on November 15th. He sadly misses family and friends.” Before he fell into a coma his last words were reported to have been “It’s all been rather lovely.”
John Le Mesurier “It’s all been rather lovely.”
He wrote his own death notice in The Times which read: “John Le Mesurier wishes it to be known that he conked out on November 15th. He sadly misses family and friends.” Before he fell into a coma his last words were reported to have been “It’s all been rather lovely.”
“An absolute shower.”
Terry-Thomas and John Le Mesurier, I'm All Right Jack [1959] by John and Roy Boulting
John Le Mesurier “It’s all been rather lovely.”
He wrote his own death notice in The Times which read: “John Le Mesurier wishes it to be known that he conked out on November 15th. He sadly misses family and friends.” Before he fell into a coma his last words were reported to have been “It’s all been rather lovely.”
The wonderful John Le Mesurier
The character Le Mesurier cumulatively created will be remembered when others more famous are forgotten, not just for the skill of his playing but because he somehow embodied a symbolic British reaction to the whirlpool of the modern world—endlessly perplexed by the dizzying and incoherent pattern of events, but doing his best to ensure that resentment never showed.
