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Arthur Brough est un Acteur Britannique né le 26 février 1905 à Petersfield (Royaume-uni)

Arthur Brough

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Nom de naissance Frederick Arthur Baker
Nationalité Royaume-uni
Naissance 26 février 1905 à Petersfield (Royaume-uni)
Mort 28 mai 1978 (à 73 ans) à Folkestone (Royaume-uni)

Arthur Brough (born Frederick Arthur Baker) (26 February 1905, Petersfield, Hampshire – 28 May 1978, Folkestone, Kent, England, UK) was a British actor, best known for portraying the character of senior menswear salesman Mr. Ernest Grainger on the BBC sitcom Are You Being Served?

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Theatre
The diminutive actor (5'2") originally wanted to become a teacher, but failed to gain such employment, and worked in a solicitor's office. He found this job too mundane and he began to take an interest in the theatre. After indulging in amateur theatricals, Brough attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in the mid-1920s. After graduating, he joined a Shakespearean theatrical troupe, where he met his wife-to-be, actress Elizabeth Addyman. After they married, they used their wedding dowry as collateral to rent the Leas Pavilion, a repertory theatre in Folkestone, Kent. They had one daughter, Joanna, who was educated at Ashford School for Girls.

Brough ran the company ("The Arthur Brough Players") and acted in the shows and, once the new Folkestone rep was established, he established new repertory companies in Bradford, Bristol, Blackpool, Keighley, Leeds, Lincoln, Oxford and Southampton, as well as other acting companies throughout the country. With the outbreak of World War II, he enlisted in the Royal Navy, in which he served for the duration of the war. His service included helping with the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940, his ship returning to the rescue scene several times.


After the war
Following demobilisation, he resumed his acting career and reopened the Folkestone rep. Many prominent actors began their careers with the Arthur Brough Players, including Peter Barkworth, who appeared in The Guinea Pig in 1948: Eric Lander, later a star of the TV series No Hiding Place, in 1949: Polly James in the 1960s: and Anne Stallybrass, who started out as ASM in 1960 and went on to play Ida the maid in Pool's Paradise by Philip King; as well as appearing in The Aspern Papers, Candida, and A Taste of Honey at the little Folkestone theatre. Others included Andrew Jack: Sydney Sturgess, who went on to marry Barry Morse: and Trevor Bannister, who would later act alongside Brough in Are You Being Served?

In those days a local repertory company would present a fresh play each week, to rival the cinemas, with a small stable cast rehearsing one play by day, whilst performing what they had rehearsed the previous week each evening, with a mid-week 'tea' matinee. Since there was a limited number of actors in the company for economic reasons, they often had to play characters far from their own age or appearance. Brough took his company on tour, and helped establish rep companies in Southend and Eastbourne.


Television
With the rise of television, Brough predicted the eclipse of repertory theatre as a viable entertainment form. In the 1960s he began seeking roles in the mass media, appearing in small roles in movies and television. His daughter, Joanna Hutton, said this about his forecast of the decline of repertory theatre: "He was very astute and unsentimental about it. He realized the era was over and that he must diversify". According to his daughter, he first found it hard adjusting from stage to screen. "He realized how hammy he was. He used to take the mickey out of himself; he'd always acted in a Shakespearean manner and suddenly realized he had to tone down his performance for film".

One of the first jobs Brough did away from the stage was the film The Green Man with Alastair Sim, in which he played the landlord of the eponymous hotel. He had a minor role opposite Jayne Mansfield in The Challenge (1960), and made guest appearances in TV shows such as Upstairs, Downstairs (Episode 3.2), Dad's Army, Z-Cars, The Persuaders Adam Adamant Lives!, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) and Jason King. He also continued to appear in theatrical productions, including Half a Sixpence (1967), playing a shopkeeper. The Folkestone Rep continued until 1969 before closing at the time that Brough's wife Elizabeth began to suffer ill-health.


Are You Being Served?
In 1972, Brough was cast as Ernest Grainger in the BBC sitcom Are You Being Served? by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft. Initially a pilot episode in the Comedy Playhouse slot, it was well received and commissioned for a series in early 1973. Set in a fading department store, Brough played the senior menswear salesman, with assistants Mr. Humphries (John Inman) and Mr. Lucas (Trevor Bannister). The show became enormously popular, with an audience of 22 million in 1979, and ran until 1985.

After the show completed its fifth season in 1977, all was going well when, on Easter Sunday 26 March 1978, Arthur Brough's wife of 50 years, Elizabeth, died, and the emotionally devastated Brough announced he was quitting acting. According to his daughter, he stayed with her for a few weeks, during which time Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft made contact to say they were writing him into the next series. However, he died just two months after his wife, on 28 May 1978, in Folkestone. Croft decided not to have another actor take over the part of Mr. Grainger, so his character in Are You Being Served? was replaced by Mr. Tebbs, played by James Hayter.


Related family life
His daughter Joanna Hutton (died 2002) became the first female curator of the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, for a period in the 1960s - coincidentally just three miles away from the town of Keighley, where Arthur Brough's Are You Being Served? co-star Mollie Sugden was born.

His twin brother owned and operated 'Bakers the Butchers' in Petersfield High Street for many years.

Le plus souvent avec

David Croft
David Croft
(1 films)
Alastair Sim
Alastair Sim
(2 films)
Jeremy Lloyd
Jeremy Lloyd
(1 films)
Frank Launder
Frank Launder
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmographie de Arthur Brough (6 films)

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Are You Being Served?, 1h35
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Comédie
Thèmes Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre
Acteurs John Inman, Mollie Sugden, Frank Thornton, Trevor Bannister, Wendy Richard, Arthur Brough
Rôle Mr. Ernest Grainger
Note60% 3.03933.03933.03933.03933.0393
The clothing department's floor requires renovation; rather than let the staff sit idle while the area is closed off, the management sends them on a paid holiday in Costa Plonka, a fictional city in Spain. Their hotel and its surroundings prove to be dismal, and the group tries to pass the time by acting on the crushes they have developed for one another in the workplace. This results in disaster, as multiple amorous notes reach the wrong recipients and everyone gets wrong ideas about who fancies whom.
Le Froussard héroïque, 1h42
Réalisé par Richard Lester
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Comédie, Aventure, Romance
Acteurs Malcolm McDowell, Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Florinda Bolkan, Joss Ackland, Tom Bell
Rôle King Ludwig of Bavaria
Note62% 3.1480253.1480253.1480253.1480253.148025
Les systèmes de voyous Harry Flashman (Lâche Malcolm McDowell) pour entrer dans les cercles royaux de l'Europe du 19ème siècle aller nulle part jusqu'à ce qu'il rencontre une paire de nobles sournoises avec leur propre ordre du jour. A leur demande pressante, Flashman accepte de se recréer comme un noble de Prusse bogus pour courtiser une belle duchesse. Mais le plan de bancales vient rapidement démêlé, et il est bientôt sur la course de plusieurs nouveaux ennemis qui demandent tous la tête du vaurien.
Le cavalier noir, 2h12
Réalisé par Roy Ward Baker
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame, Western
Thèmes Religion, Sexualité, Homosexualité, LGBT
Acteurs Dirk Bogarde, John Mills, Mylène Demongeot, Laurence Naismith, John Bentley, Leslie French
Rôle Farmer
Note62% 3.1020553.1020553.1020553.1020553.102055
Le père Michael Keogh arrive au Mexique dans le village isolé de Quantana pour prendre la relève à la tête d'une congrégation catholique bien mise à mal par un criminel, l'impitoyable Anacleto ; mais il ignore à quel point le pays peut être dominé par celui-ci et sa bande. Anacleto, athée, interdit toute forme de culte et, lorsque le père Keogh veut tenir ses offices, il exerce des représailles en faisant assassiner des paroissiens. Keogh résiste à ses menaces, ce qui provoque un intérêt inhabituel d’Anacleto envers le prêtre. Le bandit engage même un dialogue métaphysique avec celui-ci en voulant lui faire admettre que ce qui est louable c’est « le chanteur (le prêtre) » et non pas « la chanson (la religion)… » Locha, l’une des ferventes pratiquantes, s’enfuit au moment où elle allait se marier avec un homme que ses parents lui destinaient, car la jeune femme est amoureuse du prêtre.
Un compte à régler, 1h41
Réalisé par John Gilling
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame, Thriller
Thèmes Hold up, Gangsters, Escroquerie
Acteurs Jayne Mansfield, Anthony Quayle, Carl Möhner, Barbara Mullen, Robert Brown, Dermot Walsh
Rôle Landlord
Note60% 3.0449553.0449553.0449553.0449553.044955
Veuf depuis la mort de sa femme, Jim s'occupe seul de son fils. Un jour, il rencontre Billy, une superbe femme qui s'avère être chef d'un gang de voleurs. Celle-ci le persuade de transporter pour un de ses amis le montant d'un coup qu'il vient de faire. Mais, après l'avoir caché, Jim est rapidement arrêté par la prison et jeté en prison. À sa sortie, Billy lui demande de lui rendre l'argent qu'il a enterré auparavant. Alors qu'il refuse de lui rendre le butin, les hommes de main de Billy kidnappent son fils en échange d'une rançon. Pour Jim commence une course contre la montre afin de sauver son enfant.
The Night We Dropped A Clanger, 1h26
Réalisé par Darcy Conyers
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Guerre, Comédie
Acteurs Cecil Parker, Brian Rix, Leslie Phillips, William Hartnell, Liz Fraser, John Welch (Welsh)
Rôle Adm. Bewdly
Note56% 2.819562.819562.819562.819562.81956
During the Second World War, the British government hands out a top-secret mission to two look-alikes, an airman and a secret agent (both played by Rix). The airman is instructed to impersonate the agent to confuse the Germans, while the real agent must enter occupied France to spy on the new buzz bombs. Unfortunately, their orders get mixed up and the airman ends up in France. When he is accidentally fired back to England inside one of the defused bombs, the airman becomes a national hero. Meanwhile the real agent tries in vain to prove his true identity.
Une bombe pas comme les autres, 1h20
Réalisé par Basil Dearden, Robert Day
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Comédie, Policier
Thèmes Théâtre, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre
Acteurs Alastair Sim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas, Jill Adams, Raymond Huntley, Colin Gordon
Rôle Landlord
Note70% 3.546383.546383.546383.546383.54638
Hawkins, un tueur à gages, est chargé d'assassiner Sir Gregory Upshoot, un industriel. Ses plans sont contrecarrés par l'irruption d'un représentant en aspirateurs.