Captain George Mainwaring ( /ˈmænərɪŋ/ MAN-ər-ing) (born 1885) is the bank manager and Home Guard company commander portrayed by Arthur Lowe on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army, set in the fictional seaside town of Walmington-on-Sea during the Second World War. He has become widely accepted and regarded as a classic British comic character owing to both the popularity of Dad's Army and Lowe's portrayal of him in this show.
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“I am not what is called a civilized man, professor. I have done with society for reasons that seem good to me. Therefore I do not obey its laws.”
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“I want to love and be loved.... I don’t want a world without love or grief or beauty. I’d rather die.”
—Daniel Mainwaring (1902–1977)