MAJOR DANBY

'Major Danby' is a character in Joseph Heller's classic novel ''Catch-22''.
He is a college professor and intellectual who sees himself as a poor match for the armed services. He briefs the airmen on upcoming missions. He is almost shot for insubordination—moaning after a demand for silence—by General Dreedle.
He is one of the few soldiers with whom the main character Yossarian maintains a decent relationship throughout the novel, and is there at the end of the novel when Yossarian plans to run away and seek out Orr.

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Major Danby was portrayed by Richard Benjamin in Mike Nichols' 1970 film adaptation of the novel.