A CROSS Hills brewery worker will appear in a new blockbuster Dad's Army movie.

Forty-seven-year-old drayman Dale Elsworth and fellow members of the Haworth Home Guard took part in filming at the weekend for the major production, based on characters from the classic BBC sitcom.

About 20 "soldiers" were in Bridlington on Saturday for the shooting of a street scene.

Dale takes on the role of a civilian rather than marching with his colleagues - and his parents, Brian and Hazel, were also involved.

"A producer came along to one of our Home Guard meetings the other week and asked if we wanted to be extras in the film," said Dale, who works at Naylor's Brewery. "It so happens I've been growing a pencil moustache for Movember so I pointed it in the style of a 1940s spiv, which fitted in quite well with my character. "

He added he had enjoyed the experience but it was hard work.

"There was a lot of standing around as they shot the same scene several times. I was in the crowd cheering as the Home Guard marched along the street.

"My parents were in the same scene, as a gamekeeper and his wife, but they were positioned further down the street."

He got to see several stars of the film, including Bill Nighy – who plays Sgt Wilson – and Alison Steadman, of Gavin & Stacey fame.

Filming of the movie began last month and is being carried out entirely in Yorkshire.

The production is a collaboration between Universal Pictures, Screen Yorkshire and DJ Films and other stars include Catherine Zeta Jones, who plays glamorous journalist Rose, Toby Jones as Captain Mainwaring, Tom Courtenay as Corporal Jones, Michael Gambon as Godfrey, Blake Harrison as Pike, Danny Mays as Walker and Bill Paterson as Fraser.