Career: His band secured a regular place at the 2i coffee bar in Soho, the starting point for a host of big acts, including Tommy Steele and Cliff Richard. He was spotted there in 1958 by Six-Five Special producer Jack Good, who booked him for two appearances. After releasing three singles that flopped, he had a hit with What Do You Want? in 1959. A run of 11 top 20 hits over three years followed, but Faith quit singing in 1967 to concentrate on acting. His 1970 TV series Budgie was a huge success. He returned to the recording studio to produce albums for Leo Sayer and Roger Daltrey. Faith continued acting on stage, TV and in movies such as McVicar and Love Hurts. His career took an unlikely turn when he became a financial journalist in the 1980s and launched satellite TV station The Money Channel in 1999, but it flopped and was driven off air. He continued to act and perform live music. His death from a heart attack, in 2003, happened hours after leaving the stage in Stoke-on-Trent where he was appearing in the play Love and Marriage.

Career: James became known in the film trade as 'one-take James' and was constantly in demand for small parts. His first major role was alongside Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway in The Lavender Hill Mob (1951). His first big break came in 1954, when he became Tony Hancock's sidekick in the hugely popular BBC radio comedy Hancock's Half Hour. His next break came when he appeared on the big screen in Carry On Teacher (1959). He went on to make 19 Carry On films and various stage and TV spin-offs. On the small screen, he enjoyed success in the sitcoms Hancock's Half Hour, Citizen James, George and the Dragon and Bless This House. He was touring in a stage version of The Mating Season when he suffered a fatal heart attack on April 26, 1976. He was 62.

Career: Hawtrey went on to appear in a number of stage roles and this led to parts on radio, notably during Children's Hour in the 1940s in the Norman and Henry Bones, and Just William. After making his TV debut in The Army Game in the late 1950s, he starred in his first Carry On film, Carry on Sergeant (1958). He became synonymous with the comedies and went on to appear in 23 of the films. Despite not making another film after Carry on Abroad (1972), Hawtrey continued to work regularly on radio, TV and the stage. His last TV appearance was in an episode of children's series Supergran in 1987. He died on October 27, 1988, at the age of 73.

Career: Dunn had a few small roles in Will Hay films during the 1930s. During the Second World War, he was captured in Greece and spent four years in prisoner of war and labour camps in Austria. In the 1950s and early 1960s, he was a regular fixture on TV in the likes of The Tony Hancock Show, After Hours, Bootsie and Snudge, Orlando and The World of Beachcomber, before he got his big break in 1968, winning the role of Lance Corporal Jones in BBC comedy Dad's Army. He went on to play an elderly character in the children's TV series Grandad in 1979. After the cancellation of Grandad in 1984, he retired to Portugal. He died on November 6, 2012 at the age of 92.