Both he and fellow Goon, Harry Secombe, died from prostate cancer.
Bought the traditional train set for his second grandson, as his daughter-in-law refused to let him give his first grandchild a machine gun.
Children include: Elaine with his first wife, and Stuart "Gus" Bentine, Fusty Bentine, Serena "Suki" Bentine and Richard Bentine with his second.
Founder of the Goons radio show with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe
He was a crack pistol shot, and helped to start the idea of a counter-terrorist wing within 22 SAS Regiment. In doing so, he became the first non-SAS person ever to fire a gun inside the close-quarters battle training house at Hereford.
He was awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1995 Queen's Honours List for his Services to Entertainment.
He was offered the opportunity of playing the fourth Doctor in the BBC series "Doctor Who" (1963) and was enthusiastic about taking over from Jon Pertwee, but his insistence that he be involved in the scripting was not acceptable to the series' producer, Barry Letts. The role was given to Tom Baker.
In 1971 he received the Peruvian Order of Merit for his work during the 1971 earthquake.
The ex-Goon awoke from a coma when Prince Charles visited him in hospital.
The RAF Red Arrows display team volunteered to make a fly past at his funeral to honour him, as their unofficial mascot.
Three of his five children died before he did. His two eldest daughters, Elaine & Marylla ('Fusty') died from cancer (breast cancer and lymphoma) and Stuart ('Gussie') died in a plane crash in southern England. Only Richard ('Peski') and Serena ('Suki') survived him. The circumstances surrounding Stuart's death - a private plane not filing a flight plan which caused enormous delay and difficulties in locating the downed aircraft - prompted him to successfully press for new regulations in registering flight plans for small private aircraft.