<Tr> <Th> Cause of death </Th> <Td> Heart attack </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Occupation </Th> <Td> actor </Td> </Tr> <P> John Talfryn Thomas (31 October 1922--4 November 1982) was a British character actor, best known for supporting roles on television in the 1970s, including those of Private Cheeseman in Dad's Army (1973 - 1974) and Tom Price in Survivors (1975), while Thomas also appeared with Jon Pertwee in two Doctor Who serials . </P> <P> John Talfryn Thomas was born in Swansea on 31 October 1922 . He trained as an instrument mechanic but joined the local amateur dramatic society . During World War II, he joined the Royal Air Force (RAF), and was a rear gunner on a Lancaster bomber, flying on multiple raids into Germany . After surviving a crash in which all the other crew members were killed, he took up acting partly as therapy for the trauma, before training as an actor in the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). </P>

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