Arthur Lowe

Born: 1915-09-22, Hayfield, Derbyshire, England

Died: 1982-04-15

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.

Filmography

• Coronation Street (1960)
• The Wednesday Play (1964)
• ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969)
• Morecambe & Wise (1961)
• Churchill's People (1974)
• Laurence Olivier Presents (1976)
• Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
• Shades of Greene (1975)
• Theatre of Blood (1973)
• Bless Me Father (1978)
• Final Appointment (1954)
• O Lucky Man! (1973)
• Daphne Laureola (1978)
• The Galton & Simpson Playhouse (1977)
• if.... (1968)
• It's Murder. But Is It Art? (1972)
• Hitler: The Comedy Years (2007)
• This Sporting Life (1963)
• The Ruling Class (1972)
• Sweet William (1980)
• Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1973)
• Britannia Hospital (1982)
• Floodtide (1949)
• The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970)
• The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
• The Green Man (1956)
• The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens (1970)
• The White Bus (1967)
• Spring and Port Wine (1970)
• The Spider and the Fly (1949)