Personal Info
Birth date
1915-09-22 (109 Years)
Day of death
1982-04-15
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Hayfield, Derbyshire, England
Also known as
-Arthur Lowe
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Arthur Lowe (22 September 1915 – 15 April 1982) was a BAFTA Award winning English actor. He was best known for playing Captain George Mainwaring in the popular British sitcom Dad's Army from 1968 until 1977. Description above from the Wikipedia article Arthur Lowe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Coronation Street
5.4
Overview:
The residents of Coronation Street are ordinary, working-class people, and the show follows them through regular social and family interactions at home, in the workplace, and in their local pub, the Rovers Return Inn. Britain's longest-running soap.The Wednesday Play
4.5
Overview:
An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.The Avengers
7.729
Overview:
A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).BBC Play of the Month
5
Overview:
A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.No Hiding Place
3.7
Overview:
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.Dad's Army
7.4
Overview:
Introducing the Walmington-On-Sea home guard. During WW2, in a fictional British seaside town, a ragtag group of Home Guard local defense volunteers prepare for an imminent German invasion.Sunday Night Theatre
3.5
Overview:
Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The productions for the first five years or so of the run were re-staged live the following Thursday, partly because of technical limitations in this era, and the theatrical basis of early television drama. Some of the earliest collaborations between Rudolph Cartier and Nigel Neale were produced for this series, including Arrow to the Heart and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Sunday night drama slot was subsequently renamed The Sunday-Night Play which ran for four seasons between 1960 and 1963. ITV transmitted its own unrelated run of Sunday Night Theatre between 1971 and 1974.Maigret
6.9
Overview:
BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.Morecambe & Wise
6.5
Overview:
The Morecambe & Wise Show is the third TV series by English comedy double-act Morecambe and Wise. It began airing in 1968 on BBC2, specifically because it was then the only channel broadcasting in colour, following the duo's move to the BBC from ATV, where they had made Two of a Kind since 1961. The series was popular enough to be moved to BBC1, with its Christmas specials garnering prime-time audiences in excess of 20 million, some of the largest in British television history. After their 1977 Christmas special, retaining its title, the show moved over to ITV.Pardon the Expression
6
Overview:
Pardon The Expression! is an ITV sitcom made by Granada Television, that was first broadcast from Wednesday 2 June 1965 to Monday 27 June 1966. The sitcom was one of only four spin-offs from the highly popular soap opera Coronation Street. Pardon the Expression itself had a spin-off: Turn out the Lights broadcast in 1967. There wasn't to be another spin-off until the 1980s with The Brothers McGregor, which reused two characters who appeared in a single episode. Leonard Swindley was the central character. Formerly the manager of the fashion retail store "Gamma Garments" in Coronation Street, in this series he is the deputy manager of the department store Dobson and Hawks. His boss in the series was Ernest Parbold played by Paul Dawkins who was replaced by Wally Hunt played by Robert Dorning in series 2. Other regulars were Betty Driver as canteen lady, Mrs Edgeley and Joy Stewart as Miss Sinclair, the boss's secretary.The Errol Flynn Theatre
NYR
Overview:
The Errol Flynn Theatre is a short-lived anthology series presented by Errol Flynn, who would also play the lead in every fourth show. His then-wife Patrice Wymore and son Sean also made appearances. It was shot in England at Bray Studios but was made for the American market.Potter
6.3
Overview:
The time has come for Redvers Potter to relinquish his role as head of the family confectionary firm, Pottermints - his company has been taken over and he is now going into enforced retirement. His wife, Aileen, is not too happy about having her husband under her feet either, but Potter is determined to make the most of his retirement. He decides he will give people the benefit of his managerial experience - even if they don't want it.ITV Christmas Comedy
NYR
Overview:
Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without the special edition of your favourtie comedy show to fill the gap between the staggeringly huge Christmas dinner and the Queen's speech, and the ITV network have rolled hours of Christmas's into one with their latest DVD set of ITV comedy. With almost ten hours of classic, festive merriment featuring some of the channel's most memorable Christmas specials the whole family can relive the joys of Christmas past.Turn Out the Lights
NYR
Overview:
Turn Out the Lights was an ITV sitcom series made by Granada Television, that was first broadcast from Monday 2 January to Monday 6 February 1967 by Associated Rediffusion and Tyne Tees Television,. The series was a spin-off from the sitcom Pardon the Expression, itself a spin-off from the highly popular soap opera Coronation Street. Leonard Swindley was the central character, along with Wally Hunt. Swindley was formerly the manager of the fashion retail store "Gamma Garments" in Coronation Street and the deputy manager of the department store Dobson and Hawks in Pardon the Expression: in this series he becomes a professional speaker on astrology who encounters various supernatural events on his travels around the country, along with his colleague Wally Hunt, after they were both fired from Dobson and Hawks in the last episode of "Pardon the Expression". The series directors were David Boisseau and Michael Cox, production designers were Dennis Parkin and Roy Stonehouse.Bless Me Father
6.2
Overview:
Bless Me Father is a British sitcom starring Arthur Lowe, Daniel Abineri, Gabrielle Daye, Patrick McAlinney, David Ryall, Derek Francis and Sheila Keith. It was aired on ITV from 1978 until 1981 and described the adventures of an Irish Catholic priest, Father Charles Duddleswell and his young curate in the fictional parish of St. Jude's in suburban London. 21 episodes, written by Peter De Rosa, were aired. De Rosa wrote the books on which the series was based using the pseudonym of Neil Boyd which was also the name of the young curate character; Boyd also served as the narrator in the series of novels upon which the series was based. It was made for the ITV network by London Weekend Television. The series was set in 1950 and 1951 and marked a departure from the middle class 'bank manager' roles associated with Lowe such as that in Dad's Army. The other regular characters included Mrs Pring, the housekeeper, the hard-drinking Dr Daley, the non-religious neighbour Billy Buzzle, and abbess Reverend Mother Stephen.A J Wentworth, BA
6
Overview:
A J Wentworth, BA is a British sitcom that aired on ITV in 1982. Set in the 1940s, the programme was shown posthumously following the death of its lead actor Arthur Lowe, who died on 15 April 1982. Based on the writings of H. F. Ellis, A J Wentworth, BA was written by Basil Boothroyd. It was made for the ITV network by Thames Television.The Last Of The Baskets
NYR
Overview:
Created by John Stevenson, the programme was about a factory worker Clifford Basket (played by Ken Jones) who inherited a title of the Earl of Clogborough, the remaining estate of which is a rundown mansion at Little Clogborough-in-the-Marsh and a faithful servant Bodkin played by Arthur LoweBill Brand
6.3
Overview:
Following the death of the sitting Labour Party Member of Parliament, Bill Brand is selected as Labour candidate for a Lancashire textile constituency.Rogues' Gallery
10
Overview:
Rogues' Gallery was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1968 and 1969. It was set around London's Newgate Prison in the 18th century.Mr. Men
7.7
Overview:
The Mr Men are a whole host of brightly colored characters that live in Misterland. All of them have names like Mr Happy, Mr Clumsy and Mr Greedy and their appearance and personality match their name. Based on the books by Roger Hargraves.The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
NYR
Overview:
Seven Hilariously comic situations from the fertile imaginations of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.Laurence Olivier Presents
7
Overview:
Laurence Olivier Presents is a British television series made by Granada Television which ran from 1976 to 1978. The plays, with the exception of Hindle Wakes, all starred Laurence Olivier. Some of the plays were based on productions staged at the National Theatre during the period when Olivier was Artistic Director. In addition to distinguished English actors, the casts assembled for these productions included several Hollywood stars, such as Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner, Joanne Woodward and Maureen Stapleton.Armchair Theatre
5.8
Overview:
Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.It's Murder. But Is It Art?
NYR
Overview:
This six-part comedy-thriller series from the BBC starred Arthur Lowe as an eccentric artist-turned-detective called Phineas Drake. Beautiful blonde Tina Kent is discovered murdered in the drawing-room of Brigadier Austin Binghop (Richard Hurndall) Inspector Hook (Dudley Foster) is convinced that Binghop is the culprit and takes him into custody. But Mr Drake thinks otherwise and begins investigating – placing himself in considerable personal jeopardy – with the trail leading him to the house of Chelsea socialite Mrs MacPherson (Sheila Keith).Microbes and Men
6
Overview:
Dramatised stories of the founders of modern medicine. Until the 1840s, medicine had remained basically unchanged since the days of the ancient Greece. In the 60 years following it was transformed into a modern science.if....
7.066
Overview:
In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. Three Lower Sixth students, Wallace, Johnny and leader Mick Travis decide on a shocking course of action to redress the balance of privilege once and for all.Kind Hearts and Coronets
7.643
Overview:
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.The Lady Vanishes
6
Overview:
On the eve of World War II, zany heiress Amanda Kelly travels by train to Switzerland. While passing through Germany, she meets a sweet elderly lady, who suddenly vanishes. Distraught, she questions her fellow passengers who claim that the woman was never there. Unsure if it's all in her mind or if there's a more sinister plot afoot, Amanda teams up with photographer Robert Condon to discover the truth.Britannia Hospital
6.3
Overview:
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebration, he finds the hospital under siege by striking workers, ruthless unions, violent demonstrators, racist aristocrats, an African cannibal dictator, and sinister human experiments.The Ruling Class
6.4
Overview:
When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman; he sings and dances across the estate and thinks he is Jesus reincarnated. Believing that Jack is mentally unfit to own the estate, the Gurney family plots to steal Jack's inheritance. As their outrageous schemes fail, the family strives to cure Jack of his bizarre behavior, with disastrous results.Acting
2007Hitler: The Comedy Years as Capt. George Mainwaring (archive footage) (uncredited)
2001The Best of Morecambe and Wise as Self (archive footage)
2000A Life on the Box: Arthur Lowe as Self
1983ITV Christmas Comedy (15 Episodes) as Unknown
1982A J Wentworth, BA (6 Episodes) as A.J. Wentworth, B.A.
1982Britannia Hospital as Guest Patient
1980Sweet William as Captain Walton
1979Red, White, and Zero as The Mayor
1979The Plank as Shorter Workman
1979The Lady Vanishes as Jeremy Charters
1979Potter (13 Episodes) as Redvers Potter
1978Bless Me Father (21 Episodes) as Father Charles Clement Duddleswell
1978Daphne Laureola as Gooch
1977Oh What A Lovely Report as Mr. Jones
1977The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It as Dr. John H. Watson
1977Philby, Burgess and Maclean as Herbert Morrison
1977The Galton & Simpson Playhouse (1 Episode) as Unknown
1976Laurence Olivier Presents (1 Episode) as Gooch
1976The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones as Dr. Thwackum
1976Bill Brand (1 Episode) as Watson
1974Mr. Men (28 Episodes) as Narrator
1974Man About the House as Spiros
1974Microbes and Men (3 Episodes) as Louis Pasteur
1973No Sex Please: We're British as Mr Bromley
1973Adolf Hitler - My Part in His Downfall as Maj. Drysdale
1973O Lucky Man! as Mr. Duff / Charlie Johnson / Dr. Munda
1973Theatre of Blood as Horace Sprout
1972The Ruling Class as Tucker
1972It's Murder. But Is It Art? (6 Episodes) as Mr. Phineas Drake
1971The Last Of The Baskets (13 Episodes) as Redvers Bodkin
1971Dad's Army as Capt. George Mainwaring
1971A Hole Lot of Trouble as Whitehouse
1970The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer as Ferret
1970Spring and Port Wine as Mr. Aspinall
1970Fragment of Fear as Mr. Nugent
1970Some Will, Some Won't as Police Sergeant
1969The Bed Sitting Room as Father
1969It All Goes to Show as Councillor Henry Parker
1968if.... as Mr. Kemp
1968Dad's Army (77 Episodes) as Captain George Mainwaring
1968Mrs. Capper's Birthday as Mr. Godsall
1968About "The White Bus" as Self
1968Rogues' Gallery (1 Episode) as Mr. Cakebread
1967The White Bus as The Mayor
1967Turn Out the Lights (6 Episodes) as Leonard Swindley
1965BBC Play of the Month (1 Episode) as Sir Oliver Surface
1965You Must Be Joking as Husband
1965Pardon the Expression (36 Episodes) as Leonard Swindley
1964The Wednesday Play (1 Episode) as Colonel Harrup
1963The Snag as Tailor
1963This Sporting Life as Charles Slomer
1962Go to Blazes as Warder
1961Morecambe & Wise (1 Episode) as Capt. George Mainwaring
1961The Avengers (1 Episode) as Benstead
1960Coronation Street (329 Episodes) as Leonard Swindley
1960Maigret (1 Episode) as Monsieur Triboulet
1960The Day They Robbed the Bank of England as Bank Official (uncredited)
1960A Night Out as Mr King
1960Lord Arthur Savile's Crime as Mr. Podgers
1959No Hiding Place (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1959The Boy and the Bridge as Bridge Mechanic
1958Stormy Crossing as Garage Owne
1958Blind Spot as Unknown
1957Stranger in Town as Jeweller
1957Hour of Decision as Caligraphy Expert
1956The Green Man as Radio Salesman
1956The Errol Flynn Theatre (1 Episode) as Unknown
1956Breakaway as Mitchell
1956Armchair Theatre (1 Episode) as Tailor
1956Who Done It? as Shop demonstrator (uncredited)
1955One Way Out as Sam
1955The Reluctant Bride as Mr. Fogarty
1954Final Appointment as Barratt
1954The Mirror and Markheim as Arthur Henry
1950Sunday Night Theatre (1 Episode) as Albert Davies
1949The Spider and the Fly as Town Clerk
1949Kind Hearts and Coronets as The Reporter
1949Stop Press Girl as Archibald (uncredited)
1948London Belongs to Me as Commuter on Train (uncredited)