Claude Pilkington — Band Waggon Character Profile

About Claude Pilkington

A senior BBC executive who initially evicts the protagonists for hitting him with a clothesline. He becomes furious when their pirate broadcast interrupts his program and orders Scotland Yard to hunt them down, but later realizes the castle holds stolen British plane plans.

Character Facts

Played by

Peter Gawthorne

Appears in

Band Waggon (1940)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (2)

• Claude Pilkington — Conflict Evicted By — Arthur Askey (Arthur Askey)

  Antagonistic relationship where Pilkington's authority forces Arthur out of the BBC roof.

• Claude Pilkington — Conflict Evicted By — Stinker Murdoch (Richard Murdoch)

  Antagonistic relationship where Pilkington's authority forces Stinker out of the BBC roof.

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