Michael Bentine(1922-1996)

He was the godfather of Peter Sellers's son Michael and claimed that the boy had been named after him. When, following Peter Sellers's death, Michael Sellers put his name to a defamatory book about his father (actually ghosted), Bentine said that, had he known at the christening that he was going to write it, "I'd have drowned the little bugger in the font!".

Speaking of his experience of his part in the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration camp: Millions of words have been written about these horror camps, many of them by inmates of those unbelievable places. I've tried, without success, to describe it from my own point of view, but the words won't come. To me Belsen was the ultimate blasphemy.