Juggernaut (1974)

There was the alcoholic, gammy-legged David Farrar handling a particularly tricky one on a beach in Powell and Pressburger's The Small Back Room; Otto, the anti-Nazi German sapper, in Edgar Reitz's Heimat; the TV series Danger UXB; Richard Harris, the naval bomb disposal expert playing lethal games with Freddie Jones's vengeful bomber in Juggernaut; and more recently "Kip" Singh, the Indian military engineer disarming German bombs in Italy in The English Patient before being driven beyond endurance by our bomb in Hiroshima (a key incident in Michael Ondaatje's novel that didn't reach the screen).