Jimmy Perry

Person · Open Library

Born

1923

Works

24

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1912-05-18

Active to

2001-05-12

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

15

Total plays

194

Jimmy Perry OBE (born 9 September 1923 in Barnes, London, United Kingdom) is an English writer, scriptwriter, producer, author and actor, most famous for devising and co-writing the BBC sitcoms Dad's Army with David Croft. Perry is credited with the original idea for Dad's Army, which was based on his experiences in the Home Guard during World War II. He also collaborated with Croft on It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Hi-de-Hi! & You Rang, M'Lord? <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Jimmy+Perry">Read more

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,474x

2. Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy

   · 2013 · cited 13,560x

3. The 2016 World Health Organization Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System: a summary

   · 2016 · cited 13,376x

4. The 2021 WHO Classification of Tumors of the Central Nervous System: a summary

   · 2021 · cited 10,820x

5. A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

   · 2012 · cited 9,262x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

James

Family name

Perry

Gender

male

Citizenship

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Place of birth

Barnes

Place of death

London

Occupation

composer

Educated at

Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

Languages spoken

English language

Award

Officer of the Order of the British Empire

Notable work

Dad's Army

Conflict

World War II

Military branch

British Army

Image

Jimmy Perry.jpg

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