:-) He was good looking in his day. Some people suggested he should go to Hollywood. He didn't. If he had, maybe we kids would've inherited millions. ;-) Or we would have been way screwed up, as so many children of stars seem to be.

I don't actually know why he couldn't be a pilot - probably because, like most Englishmen of that time, he had left school at 14 to work, and didn't have the education.