Died aged 90, actually a real war hero who portrayed war heroes in films.

I wonder what they'll call his dog in the remake of the Dambusters.

Last time I saw it on the BBC, they'd simply cut out the relevant sections from the film... Just imagine a modern remake of that by the BBC, the lead role would be Gay Gibson, the name 'Dambusters' would be a cert to be changed to 'The Great Dam War Crime' ..... and surely have Stephen Fry as Barnes Wallis, fretting over how the worlds sea levels may rise by a ..... millimetre, if the all the dams burst on the raid.

I think Mr Fry's views on global warming and it's disciples might not be what you think Snowy!

"If you create an atmosphere in which driving a car, going on holiday, leaving a light turned on or failing to recycle a bottle is accounted a crime, a failing, a weakness, something to be loudly condemned, then you will lose the earth, for no self-respecting human being is going to be recruited to a cause whose spokesmen are as self-righteous religious zealots, making impossible demands all at once on fallible human beings."

Now I never knew that, good for him. But, er actually I was referring to the fact he seems to appear in everything on the BBC, even though he looks nothing like Barnes Wallis.

I met him in SLEAFORD when I lived there he was a small man but huge on stature he had a certain air about him and very pleasant as well.

Do you mean Barnes Wallis or Stephen Fry.

Would you believe it.........

Work on a remake of The Dam Busters, produced by Peter Jackson and directed by first time director Christian Rivers, began production in 2008. Jackson said in the mid-1990s that he became interested in remaking the 1954 film, but found that the rights had been bought by Mel Gibson. In 2004, Jackson was contacted by his agent, who said Gibson had dropped the rights. The rights were purchased by Sir David Frost from the Brickhill family in 2005.[5] Stephen Fry is writing the script of the film.[6] It will be distributed by Universal Pictures and StudioCanal.[7] Filming was planned to commence in early 2009, on a budget of USD 40 million, [8] although no project-specific filming had begun as of May 2009 [9].

Weta Workshop are making the models and special effects for the film and have made 10 life size Lancaster Bombers [10]

The last living pilot of the strike team, Les Munro, joined the production crew in Masterton as technical adviser. Jackson will also use newly declassified War Office documents to ensure the authenticity of the film. [11]

Now that's what I call a coincidence .....