Arthur English

Acting

Arthur English

Born 1919-05-09 · Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK

Arthur English (9 May 1919 - 16 April 1995) was an English television, film and stage actor and comedian from the music hall tradition.

Acting credits

Pygmalion poster
NR

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.

Pygmalion

1981

The Hi-Jackers poster
7.2

A self-employed lorry driver is determined to find the criminals responsible for hijacking him.

The Hi-Jackers

1963

Vérité poster
NR

A married couple have their preconceptions of life tested by their guest

Vérité

1973

Percy poster
4.3

Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors successfully replace his member with that of the dead man, but refuse to tell him the full story of the organ's origin. So Edwin begins a search which takes him to the philanderer's wife - and also to his many, many girlfriends...

Percy

1971

The Boys in Blue poster
5.5

Sgt. Cannon (Tommy Cannon) and PC Ball (Bobby Ball) run the police station in the quiet town of Little Botham. When the station is threatened with closure due to a lack of crime, they decide to invent some crimes to justify their existence. When they try to steal a painting from a local rich businessman (Roy Kinnear), they accidently stumble across a gang of real art thieves who have just stolen £1 million worth of paintings. It is up to the two bungling cops to stop them escaping with their haul.

The Boys in Blue

1982

Echo of Diana poster
5.8

When a woman begins to investigate her husband's mysterious death in a plane accident she discovers the involvement of a woman known simply as Diana.

Echo of Diana

1963

Wayne and Albert poster
NR

When Wayne has to go and live with his grandfather Albert, they both initially resent the arrangement. Hostilities soften when they discover some common interests.

Wayne and Albert

1983

The Best Of Dick Emery poster
NR

Compilation of classic clips, featuring the best performances from across the much-loved comedian's long BBC career, including examples of Emery's best-known slapstick routines and catchphrases. All the greatest clips from Dick Emery's long-running BBC career - a chance for fans both old and new to see what a huge contribution Emery made to contemporary slapstick comedy. All the classic characters appear: the father and son skinheads (with Roy Kinnear), "Oooh! You Are Awful", and a plethora of slapstick Lords, little old ladies, vicars and schoolmasters.

The Best Of Dick Emery

2005

Are You Being Served? The Movie poster
5.0

In this feature film version of the popular BBC sitcom, the staff of Grace Brothers go on holiday to Costa Plonka, where they find themselves in the middle of a revolution.

Are You Being Served? The Movie

1977

A Coffin for the Bride poster
8.0

Mark Walker is in the lucrative business of marrying wealthy older women and murdering them after the honeymoon. That all changes when he falls for cool blonde Stella McKenzie. He considers giving up his life of crime and finally marrying for love. The only obstacles in his way are a lawyer who suspects the truth, and temptation in the form of the perfect target for one more kill...

A Coffin for the Bride

1974

Barry McKenzie Holds His Own poster
5.4

Barry McKenzie's Aunt Edna is kidnapped by Count Von Plasma, the vampire head of an isolated Eastern European dictatorship who mistakes her for the Queen of England and thinks that kidnapping her will draw tourists to his country. Barry and his mates set out to rescue her and bring her back to Australia.

Barry McKenzie Holds His Own

1974

Love Thy Neighbour poster
6.3

Two men who are nextdoor neighbors constantly battle it out over seemingly trivial offenses. Their wives, on the other hand, are best of friends. The two couples attempt to win a 'love-thy-neighbor' competition by lying...

Love Thy Neighbour

1973

Malachi's Cove poster
6.8

A tough young girl lives with her aging grandfather near a cove on the coast of Cornwall. She supports herself and him by gathering seaweed to sell as fertilizer. A cocky young neighboring boy decides to help her with the work.

Malachi's Cove

1973

For the Love of Ada poster
7.3

Walter and Ada Bingley celebrate their first wedding anniversary, unaware that that friends and family are planning a surprise party. Based on the 1970-71 sitcom of the same name.

For the Love of Ada

1972

The Frank Crank Story poster
NR

Can the Night Hoppers revive the jazz age at the Café Elegant?

The Frank Crank Story

1975