Arthur Lowe
Birthday: 1915-09-22
Place of Birth: Hayfield, Derbyshire, England
Biography: 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.
Movies
The Lady Vanishes
On the eve of World War II, zany heiress Amanda Kelly travels by train to Switzerland. While passing...
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Dad's Army
Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman...
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Adolf Hitler - My Part in His Downfall
London, 1940. Aspiring jazz musician and future comedy legend Terence "Spike" Milligan reluctantly o...
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The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
John Cleese is hilarious as the descendant of Sherlock Holmes in this modern detective drama of inte...
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The Ruling Class
When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the...
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The Bed Sitting Room
In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing s...
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Theatre of Blood
A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition....
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O Lucky Man!
An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to ...
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Philby, Burgess and Maclean
Recruited by the Russians during their days at Cambridge, three young Englishmen rise to become high...
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Hitler: The Comedy Years
A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture....
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The Snag
When developer John Goggin plans to build a civic center, only Emma Mannering's corset shop stands i...
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The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
London at the turn of the century. Three men are on a mission from the IRA to steal all the gold in ...
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The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the ...
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One Way Out
A tragedy played in standard cops and robbers costume. A policeman faced with deep moral choices fi...
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The Plank
Classic short British comedy, full of stars, about two workmen delivering planks to a building site....
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No Sex Please - We're British
A porn-store owner orders some new stuff from his supplier, but the delivery address gets mixed with...
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Spring and Port Wine
A stern father and lenient mother try to deal with the ups and downs of their four children's lives ...
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Some Will, Some Won't
Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical jok...
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A Life on the Box: Arthur Lowe
Terry Wogan presents a compilation programme celebrating the unique talent of Arthur Lowe. Featuring...
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The Spider and the Fly
"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline inte...
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It All Goes to Show
A fading seaside resort attempt to revive its fortunes with a summer show....
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Breakaway
When Johnny Matlock whisks away a cold war secret from under the noses of Berlin's top secret agents...
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London Belongs to Me
Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 ...
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Sweet William
William is a dashing and eccentric Scotsman whose charms rapidly overwhelm the sweet and naïve Ann, ...
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Oh What A Lovely Report
A humorous look at the preparation and writing of reports. Details the essential elements of good re...
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Kind Hearts and Coronets
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic...
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Blind Spot
US Army Officer Dan Adams, blinded during the war, is framed for a diamond smuggling rap. Upon regai...
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A Hole Lot of Trouble
Three workmen assigned to dig a hole in a road for an electrical cable run into problems with local ...
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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
Saville is told by a palm reader he is doomed to become a murderer at some future time. He decides t...
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The Reluctant Bride
A money-to-burn and girl-chasing Texas oilman, and a sensitive, dignified entomologist find themsel...
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In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands ...
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The Best of Morecambe and Wise
Compilation of sketches featuring the much-loved funnymen Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise. Includes 'A...
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The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
Another stab at Henry Fielding's hilarious novel about the amorous misadventures of a dashing young ...
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Man About the House
An unscrupulous property developer wants to flatten the street to make way for new buildings. Househ...
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Daphne Laureola
A young man becomes infatuated with the exotic Lady Pitts whose much older husband is not pleased....
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The Green Man
Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a profession...
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This Sporting Life
In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become a...
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Fragment of Fear
Reformed drug addict Tim Brett (David Hemmings) is vacationing in Italy with his aunt. When she is m...
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Final Appointment
A pair of reporters try to discover the link between three unsolved, seemingly isolated murders. Th...
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Red, White, and Zero
Composed of three shorts – Ride of the Valkyrie, The White Bus, and Red and Blue – from three of Bri...
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About "The White Bus"
Follows the creation of Lindsay Anderson's The White Bus (1968), from pre-production to the shoot an...
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Hour of Decision
A reporter tries to prove that his wife is not responsible for the murder of a famous newspaper colu...
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You Must Be Joking
A motley group of soldiers are set loose on swinging England in an initiative test to collect a sele...
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Go to Blazes
A gang of aspiring bank robbers involve themselves with arsonists and purchase their very own fire t...
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Britannia Hospital
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by...
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A Night Out
Against the wishes of his domineering mother, Albert Stokes attends a work party. But the evening is...
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Stop Press Girl
A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she does...
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Stormy Crossing
After murdering his lover, cross-channel swimmer Joy Webster, Derek Bond attempts to do same to her ...
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The Mirror and Markheim
Based on one of Robert Louis Stevenson's short stories, a young reprobate who visits a jeweler with ...
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Who Done It?
This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after ...
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Stranger in Town
A vacationing journalist investigates the mysterious death of a composer and debunks the theory that...
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The Boy and the Bridge
A very slight tale based on an original American story by Leon Ware centered on the Golden Gate Brid...
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Mrs. Capper's Birthday
It is Mrs Capper's 50th birthday and for years she has quietly gone about doing her best to help oth...
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Wendy Richard: A Life on the Box
Profile of actress Wendy Richard's remarkable television career, featuring classic clips and contrib...
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The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
British television film about the life of Charles Dickens directed by Ned Sherrin and starring Antho...
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Windfall
A shop assistant finds a case with £2000 in it, and doesn't quite know what to do with it....
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