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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.
Total trailers found: 53
01 June 1969
In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.
30 April 1979
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.
17 December 1979
Classic short British comedy, full of stars, about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion.
05 November 1948
Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939.
12 March 1971
Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman Cohen, it was filmed between series three and four and was based upon material from the early episodes of the television series.
27 May 1982
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself.
04 September 1960
London at the turn of the century. Three men are on a mission from the IRA to steal all the gold in the vaults of the Bank of England.
01 October 1954
A pair of reporters try to discover the link between three unsolved, seemingly isolated murders. The only connection between them is they all took place on the same day in three successive years.
21 December 1956
Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing his targets with bombs.
12 June 1973
London, 1940. Aspiring jazz musician and future comedy legend Terence "Spike" Milligan reluctantly obeys his call-up and joins the Royal Artillery regiment at Bexhill, where he begins training to take part in the War.
01 August 1958
After murdering his lover, cross-channel swimmer Joy Webster, Derek Bond attempts to do same to her other boyfriend, Sheldon Lawrence.
18 September 1977
John Cleese is hilarious as the descendant of Sherlock Holmes in this modern detective drama of international power politics and intrigue.
02 October 1970
A stern father and lenient mother try to deal with the ups and downs of their four children's lives in working class Bolton, England.
01 August 1976
Another stab at Henry Fielding's hilarious novel about the amorous misadventures of a dashing young man in 18th century England.
12 November 1970
Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place.
25 July 1973
A porn-store owner orders some new stuff from his supplier, but the delivery address gets mixed with the address of the local Barclays Bank.
01 December 1949
"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people.
01 August 1955
A money-to-burn and girl-chasing Texas oilman, and a sensitive, dignified entomologist find themselves in charge of a brood of wild kids whose parents, both famous explorers, are reported lost while on an African safari.
01 December 1967
A despondent young woman travels home to the North of England.
11 April 1980
William McClusky (Sam Waterston) is a dashing and eccentric Scotsman whose charms rapidly overwhelm the sweet and naive Ann Walton (Jenny Agutter), but she nearly as quickly begins to comprehend that her new beau is anything but a one-woman man.
26 October 1977
A humorous look at the preparation and writing of reports. Details the essential elements of good report writing.
01 April 1970
Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical joker.
16 July 1956
When Johnny Matlock whisks away a cold war secret from under the noses of Berlin's top secret agents, his every move is followed when he returns to England.
18 April 1962
A gang of aspiring bank robbers involve themselves with arsonists and purchase their very own fire truck in an attempt to create the ultimate diversion.
13 September 1972
When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate.
03 September 1970
A reformed drug addict travels to Italy to find out who murdered his aunt.
01 May 1957
A vacationing journalist investigates the mysterious death of a composer and debunks the theory that it was suicide.
01 September 1955
A tragedy played in standard cops and robbers costume. A policeman faced with deep moral choices finds that once he's set foot on the path of corruption he is trapped by an ever more complex web of lies and intrigue.
21 June 1949
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family.
31 January 1971
Three workmen assigned to dig a hole in a road for an electrical cable run into problems with local officials who believe the hole is being dug in the wrong place and should be closer to the home of a prissy fashion designer.
02 June 1949
A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange ability; if she's in the vicinity of a machine for more than fifteen minutes, it stops working.
01 January 1954
Based on a short gothic horror story “Markheim” by Robert Louis Stevenson.
01 October 2001
Compilation of sketches featuring the much-loved funnymen Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise. Includes 'Anthony and Cleopatra' with Glenda Jackson, 'Monty in the Bounty' with Arthur Lowe, the famous 'Singing in the Rain' routine, and Eric and Ernie making breakfast to the sound of 'The Stripper'.
19 December 1968
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.
01 January 1969
A fading seaside resort attempt to revive its fortunes with a summer show.
21 December 1979
Composed of three shorts – Ride of the Valkyrie, The White Bus, and Red and Blue – from three of Britain’s most-celebrated directors - Lindsay Anderson, Peter Brook, and Tony Richardson.
31 May 1977
Recruited by the Russians during their days at Cambridge, three young Englishmen rise to become high-ranked MI5 agents until their exposure in 1949.
01 July 1958
US Army Officer Dan Adams, blinded during the war, is framed for a diamond smuggling rap. Upon regaining his sight, Adams goes after the real thieves in an effort to clear his name.
20 March 1956
This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money.
04 August 1963
When developer John Goggin plans to build a civic center, only Emma Mannering's corset shop stands in the way, and she refuses to sell, so he sends his unscrupulous assistant Ed Crayshaw to "fix" things, but instead, he's double-crossed.
16 March 1973
A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.
28 July 1959
A very slight tale based on an original American story by Leon Ware centered on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
07 February 1963
In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.
30 July 2000
Terry Wogan presents a compilation programme celebrating the unique talent of Arthur Lowe. Featuring interviews with those who knew him, and footage from both his classic comedy performances and his many straight roles.
30 April 1957
A reporter tries to prove that his wife is not responsible for the murder of a famous newspaper columnist.
01 January 1968
Follows the creation of Lindsay Anderson's The White Bus (1968), from pre-production to the shoot and in post.
25 March 1973
An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.
24 April 1960
Against the wishes of his domineering mother, Albert Stokes attends a work party. But the evening is not the escape he was hoping for.
15 January 1978
A young man becomes infatuated with the exotic Lady Pitts whose much older husband is not pleased.
10 May 2007
A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.
03 August 1965
A motley group of soldiers are set loose on swinging England in an initiative test to collect a selection of esoteric items.
22 December 1974
An unscrupulous property developer wants to flatten the street to make way for new buildings. Householder George Roper is happy to take the offered money and run but his wife Mildred and their lodgers join with other residents to take a stand and keep things as they are.
03 January 1960
Saville is told by a palm reader he is doomed to become a murderer at some future time. He decides to get the inevitable out of the way before his upcoming society wedding, and goes about attempting the crime on several likely victims.
