Hugh Falkus was a British writer, filmmaker, presenter, World War II pilot, and angler. In a highly varied career, he is perhaps best known for his successful books on angling, notably salmon and sea trout fishing; however, he is also a well-known filmmaker and broadcaster for the BBC.
According to his entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Hugh caught his first fish when he was four, learned to shoot when he was six, and became an expert helmsman by the age of fifteen. By eighteen, he had learned to fly; at twenty, he became a pilot in the RAF.
In June 1940, Falkus’ Spitfire was shot down in France, and he spent the rest of the war in German concentration camps, including Stalag Luft III, the Great Escape camp. Rumor has it that his German captors were just glad to get rid of him because he was somewhat less than a model prisoner and drove them crazy.
Hugh has a bit of a dark side. He was married four times and, according to his biographer, Chris Newton, a sexual predator, earning the nickname “Huge Phallus” on the BBC.
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