Lord Haw-Haw - in Popular Culture

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  • In the 1940s, actor Geoffrey Sumner played Lord Haw-Haw for laughs in a series of Pathé Gazette short subjects named "Nasti" News From Lord Haw-Haw.
  • The 1942 feature film Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror combines elements of the Arthur Conan Doyle story "His Last Bow" and loosely parallels the real-life activities of Lord Haw-Haw.
  • The 1943 propaganda cartoon Tokio Jokio has a scene with an anthropomorphic donkey (wearing a suit and a monocle in one eye) reading a radio broadcast. The sign on his desk reads "Lord Hee Haw, Chief Wind-Bag".
  • In various scenes in the 1949 World War II film Twelve O'Clock High, they have Lord Haw Haw broadcasts, playing to "General" Gregory Peck and his bomber group. It was a vocal recreation by Barry Jones (uncredited) for the film.
  • The 1966 World War II film The Dirty Dozen includes a propaganda broadcast by an English-accented person said to be Lord Haw-Haw.
  • Joyce's radio broadcasts and the relationship with his wife were dramatised in the 1983 stage play Double Cross, by Thomas Kilroy. Stephen Rea played the role of Joyce.
  • In Flashman at the Charge, one of a series of historical novels by George MacDonald Fraser, the main character Harry Flashman refers to James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, who led the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade, as "Lord Haw-Haw" due to his tendency to sprinkle his conversation with the phrase "haw-haw". The Earl was noted as using the phrase in real life.
  • In the 1997 radio series On The Town with The League of Gentlemen, local radio presenter of dubious morality Bernice Woodall plays an early recording of herself mimicking a broadcast by Lord Haw-Haw.

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