২২ সেপ্টেম্বর ১৯১৫ - ১৫ এপ্রিল ১৯৮২)
একজন ইংরেজ অভিনেতা। ত্রিশ বছরের অধিক অভিনয় জীবনে তিনি অসংখ্য মঞ্চনাটক, টেলিভিশন নাটক এবং চলচ্চিত্রে অভিনয় করেছেন। তিনি ১৯৬৮ থেকে ১৯৭৭ সাল পর্যন্ত ব্রিটিশ সিটকম ড্যাড্স আর্মি-এ ক্যাপ্টেন ম্যানারিং চরিত্রে অভিনয় করে টেলিভিশনে অন্যতম পরিচিত মুখ হয়ে ওঠেন এবং এই কাজের জন্য সাতবার বাফটা পুরস্কারের মনোনয়ন লাভ করেন। তিনি ও লাকি ম্যান! (১৯৭৩) চলচ্চিত্রে অভিনয় করে শ্রেষ্ঠ পার্শ্বচরিত্রে অভিনেতা বিভাগে বাফটা পুরস্কার অর্জন করেন.
লো ১৯১৫ সালের ২২শে সেপ্টেম্বর ডার্বিশায়ারের হেফিল্ডে জন্মগ্রহণ করেন। তাঁর পিতা আর্থার লো সিনিয়র (১৮৮৮-১৯৭১) ও মাতা ম্যারি অ্যানি ফোর্ড (১৮৮৫-১৯৮১)। তাঁর পিতা একটি রেলওয়ে কোম্পানিতে কাজ করতেন এবং বিশেষ রেলের মাধ্যমে উত্তর ইংল্যান্ড ও মিডল্যান্ডে মঞ্চ সফরকারী কোম্পানির এক স্থান থেকে অন্য স্থানে যাতায়াতের দায়িত্বে ছিলেন। আর্থার জুনিয়র ম্যানচেস্টারের লেভেনশুলমের চ্যাপেল স্ট্রিটের চ্যাপেল স্ট্রিট জুনিয়র স্কুলে পড়াশোনা করেন।
In February 1939 Lowe joined the Territorial Army, which meant several months later he was among the first men called up to serve in the Second World War.He served with the Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry. Initially training with horses, the regiment soon became a mechanised unit of the Royal Artillery. Lowe was medically regraded due to his poor eyesight and after training in wireless and as a radar technician transferred to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. After working on searchlights in Lincolnshire he was sent out to Egypt in 1942, where he soon transferred to the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He was a good horseman and learned to speak Arabic. After a period in the Suez Canal Zone he was stationed at the REME's 15th Radio Repair Workshops at Rafah.
Lowe soon found outlets for developing his talents in entertainment. He was knownamong the troopers for his impressions of officers and crooners, and when radio equipment was stolen, he read the BBC News over his camp's PA system. In January 1943 he called a meeting to form an amateur dramatics group, the REME No. 1 Welfare Club Dramatic Society. "It was sheer bloody boredom that did it", he said later, "and after that I was hooked". He took his first appearance on stage in The Monkey's Paw on 8 February 1943 and continued both to organise and act in plays, as well as a Christmas revue. His efforts led to a posting with the No. 2 Field Entertainment Unit, promoted to the rank of sergeant major. In this role he helped outlying units to produce their own shows. He assisted Martin Benson in establishing the Mercury Theatre in Alexandria, including in production and management, but not as an actor.
Following the end of the war, Lowe returned to Britain in November 1945, although he was not officially demobbed until March 1946.
1968, Lowe was cast in his best remembered role, as Home Guard platoon leader Captain Mainwaring in the BBC sitcom Dad's Army (1968–1977). Some colleagues on the show later remarked that the role resembled him: pompous and bumbling. Frank Williams said he felt this perception was unfair: "He certainly didn't suffer fools gladly and always knew his own mind, but he also had an ability to laugh at himself. Personally, I found him to be a most kind and generous man". David Croft said Lowe had to be treated with kid gloves. He had firm ideas on what he was willing to do and never took his script home, which resulted in uncertainty over his lines. He could be pompous and over time his part was written so there was a blurring of the line between actor and character. An oddity of his contract was that he would never have to remove his trousers.
Lowe held conservative political views and disapproved of the left-wing politics of his co-star Clive Dunn.[46] Dunn, in turn, described some of Lowe's opinions as outrageous, but as an actor rated him "ten out of ten in his field". Despite some tensions, Jimmy Perry described the cast as a "marvellous bunch of pros" with "no sort of volatile animosity between anybody".
Lowe also played Mainwaring in a radio version of Dad's Army, a stage play and a feature-length film released in 1971. He played Mainwaring's drunken brother Barry Mainwaring, in the series' 1975 Christmas episode "My Brother and I".
Death and last released works
On 14 April 1982, Lowe gave a live televised interview on Pebble Mill at One.[72] At just after 6 pm the same day, he collapsed from the onset of a stroke in his dressing room at the Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham.] This was before a performance of Home at Seven in which he was due to appear with his wife, Joan. He was taken, unconscious, to Birmingham General Hospital, where he died at about 5 am, at the age of 66.
Lowe was cremated and his ashes were scattered at Sutton Coldfield Crematorium, following a small funeral of which few people were notified and fewer than a dozen attended. Joan did not attend, as she refused to miss a performance of Home at Seven and was appearing in Belfast at the time. According to her friend Phyllis Bateman, the couple had a pact that neither would go to the other's funeral. Stephen said his parents were not sentimental or religious and Joan's coping mechanism was summed up in the adage, "the show must go on".] A memorial service was held on 24 May 1982 at St Martin-in-the-Fields, attended by Lowe's wife and family, former colleagues and many friends.
Lowe's final film and television performances premiered after his death. His last feature film was Lindsay Anderson's Britannia Hospital (1982). In his final sitcom, A.J. Wentworth, B.A. (1982), he starred as a boys' preparatory school master.[] Wagner was Lowe's last screen role, released in December 1983.
Memorials
In December 2007 plans were announced for a statue of Lowe to be erected in Thetford, Norfolk, where the outside scenes for Dad's Army were filmed.[88] Series co-writer David Croft unveiled the statue on 19 June 2010.[89][90] It depicts Lowe in the character of Captain Mainwaring, sitting upright on a simple bench in Home Guard uniform, with his swagger stick across his knees.
Statue of Captain Mainwaring, Arthur Lowe's Dad's Army character in Thetford
The star has also had two blue plaques unveiled, one at Maida Vale and one at his birthplace in Hayfield, Derbyshire.
Portrayals
Robert Daws portrayed Lowe in the BBC Radio 4 drama Dear Arthur, Love John by Roy Smiles, first broadcast in 2012.[94] The play charts the relationship between Lowe and John Le Mesurier. John Sessions played him in the 2015 television movie We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story.
Television & radio
Year Title Role Notes
1958 Murder Bag 2 episodes
Time Out for Peggy
Leave It to Todhunter Gunsmith 2 episodes
1959 All Aboard Sydney Barker, steward 26 episodes
1959 Dial 999 Samuel Finch (uncredited) 1 appearance, episode 14: ('The Mechanical Watchman')
1960–65
1965–66
1967 Coronation Street
Pardon the Expression
Turn Out the Lights Leonard Swindley 241 episodes
1968–77 Dad's Army Captain Mainwaring 80 episodes
1971–73 Parsley Sidings (Radio) Horace Hepplewhite All episodes (Lost episodes all recovered & rebroadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra)
1970 Rookery Nook Harold Twine
Turkey Time Edwin Stoatt
1971 Doctor at Large Dr Maxwell 5 episodes
1971–72 The Last of the Baskets Redvers Bodkin 13 episodes
1972 It's Murder, But Is It Art? Phineas Drake
1974 Microbes and Men Louis Pasteur
This Is Your Life (British TV series) Himself Filmed interview insert.,for Jack Howarth (actor),as unable to attend
1974-75 David Copperfield Wilkins Micawber
1977 Car Across the Pass Galton & Simpson Playhouse
1974–78 Mr Men Narrator and character voices Animated series based on picture books by Roger Hargreaves, 28 episodes
1978–81 Bless Me, Father Father Charles Clement Duddleswell 21 episodes
1979 The Plank Slapstick Comedy for TV
1979–80
Potter Redvers Potter 13 episodes
1981 It Sticks Out Half a Mile Captain Mainwaring 1 episode, (Unbroadcast Pilot, first aired 29 May 2004)
1982 (14th. May) Pebble Mill At One Himself Live. Last interview, with Marjorie Lofthouse.
1982 A.J. Wentworth, BA Arthur James Wentworth, B.A. 6 episodes. Broadcast posthumously.
Films
Year Title Role Notes
1948 London Belongs to Me Commuter on Train Uncredited
1949 Floodtide Pianist Uncredited
Stop Press Girl Archibald Uncredited
Kind Hearts and Coronets The Reporter
Poet's Pub Coach Guide Uncredited
The Spider and the Fly Town Clerk
Cage of Gold Short Man Uncredited
Gilbert Harding Speaking of Murder 3rd Drama critic
1954 Final Appointment Mr. Barrett
1955 Reluctant Bride Mr. Fogarty
The Woman for Joe George's Agent Uncredited
One Way Out Sam
Murder Anonymous Fingerprint Expert Uncredited
Windfall Uncredited
1956 Who Done It? Bit Part Uncredited
Breakaway Mitchell
The Green Man Radio Salesman
High Terrace Uncredited
1957 Hour of Decision Calligraphy Expert
Stranger in Town Jeweller
1958 Blind Spot Garage Mechanic Uncredited
Stormy Crossing Garage Owner
1959 The Boy and the Bridge Bridge Mechanic
1960 The Day They Robbed the Bank of England Bank Official Uncredited
Follow That Horse Auctioneer Uncredited
1962 Go to Blazes Warder
1963 This Sporting Life Charles Slomer
1965 You Must Be Joking! Husband
1967 The White Bus Mayor
1968 If.... Mr. Kemp: Staff
1969 It All Goes to Show Councillor Henry Parker Short
The Bed Sitting Room Father
1970 Spring and Port Wine Mr. Aspinall
Some Will, Some Won't Police Sergeant
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens John Dickens
Fragment of Fear Mr. Nugent
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer Ferret
1971 A Hole Lot of Trouble Whitehouse
Dad's Army Captain Mainwaring
1972 The Ruling Class Daniel Tucker
Adolf Hitler – My Part in His Downfall Major Drysdale
1973 Theatre of Blood Horace Sprout
O Lucky Man! Mr. Duff / Charlie Johnson / Dr. Munda
No Sex Please, We're British Mr. Bromley
1974 Man About the House Spiros
1976 The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones Dr. Thwackum
1977 The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It Dr. William Watson, M.D.
1979 The Lady Vanishes Charters
1980 Sweet William Captain Walton
1982 Britannia Hospital Guest Patient
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