The war years saw him work on the prosthetics used to transform Roger Livesey into a balding, pot-bellied blusterer in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.
Several devote more than three-quarters of their defence budgets to personnel costs: maintaining armies of greying, pot-bellied dentists, cooks and clerks in khaki, rather than investing in expeditionary troops.
Lining the steps up to a temple are scores of beggars: soldiers with legs lost to landmines, mothers with pot-bellied babies, a dwarf with misshapen limbs who could be ten or 30.