Introducing the Mermaid Theatre's Mummy in the shrouded shape of actor , Bernard Miles in an up-ended coffin and flanked by mourning actresses , Thelma Whiteley (left) and Hilda Fenemore in the final scene of Bill Naughton's new comedy He Was Gone When They Got There . Miles stages his own death in a bid to dodge the Income Tax authorities . 28 July 1966