John Mann (1915–1981) was an

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actor. He is best remembered for playing the cockney Snowy White who assisted the hero in

Dick Barton ''Dick Barton – Special Agent'' is a radio thriller serial that was broadcast in the BBC Light Programme between 7 October 1946 and 30 March 1951. Produced and directed by Raymond Raikes, Neil Tuson, and Charles Lefaux, it was aired in 15- ...

for the

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between 1946 and 1951. He trained at

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in the early 1930s and then played many smaller roles in the theatre both in London and touring until called up in WW2. He was posted to Stars in Battledress until demob in 1946. He also had small parts in films such as ''It's not Cricket'' and ''Christopher Columbus''. As work dried up in the early 1950s he continued with his love of acting by taking part in amateur dramatics and it was on the way home from rehearsals that he died in 1981.

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