List of the best Arthur Lowe movies: Dad's Army(1971), The White Bus(1967), Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall(1973), No Sex Please, We're British(1973), O Lucky Man!(1973), The Ruling Class(1972), The Lady Vanishes(1979), If...(1968), The Spider and the Fly(1949), Kind Hearts and Coronets(1949), Theatre of Blood(1973), The Green Man(1957) ... ...
Comedy
UK
1971
95 Minutes
Capt. Mainwaring
soldier man major airy amusing cheeky cheery hilarious madcap witty seaside small town england world war ii hostage situation adventure rescue pursuit 1930s
The misadventures of a ragtag group of elderly Home Guard local defense volunteers at the onset of WW2.
Drama
1967
46 Minutes
The Mayor
Arthur Lowe John Sharp Patricia Healey Victor Henry Stephen Moore Fanny Carby Julie Perry Anthony Hopkins
A young woman (Patricia Healey) is removed from her suicidal London life and taken home to North England.
Comedy
UK
1973
102 Minutes
Major Drysdale
Jim Dale Spike Milligan Arthur Lowe Billy Maynard Windsor Davies Tony Selby
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 ... See full summary »
Comedy
1973
91 Minutes
Mr. Bromley
Ronnie Corbett Beryl Reid Arthur Lowe Ian Ogilvy Susan Penhaligon Michael Bates Cheryl Hall David Swift Valerie Leon Margaret Nolan
bank employee police officer criminal cheeky campy amusing hilarious madcap quirky england small town misunderstanding comedy discovery adventure pursuit 1970s
Comedy
UK|USA
1973
173 Minutes
Mr. Duff, Charlie Johnson, Dr. Munda
Malcolm McDowell Ralph Richardson Rachel Roberts Arthur Lowe Helen Mirren Dandy Nichols Mona Washbourne Michael Medwin Vivian Pickles Mary MacLeod Graham Crowden
young man beautiful woman father boss public relations specialist cheeky witty outlandish england scotland london factory hotel clinic class distinctions aspirations british empire romance social change capitalism
An apprentice coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures that seem designed to challenge his naive idealism.
Comedy
UK
1972
154 Minutes
Daniel Tucker
Peter O'Toole Alastair Sim Harry Andrews Arthur Lowe Coral Browne Michael Bryant Nigel Green William Mervyn Carolyn Seymour James Villiers Hugh Burden
earl uncle psychiatrist mental patient butler hilarious quirky england estate nobility schizophrenia class distinctions delusions murder schemes rivalry wretched excess 1970s
A member of the House of Lords dies, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son thinks he is Jesus Christ. The other, somewhat more respectable, members of their family plot to steal the estate from him. Murder and mayhem ensue.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
UK
1979
99 Minutes
Charters
Elliott Gould Cybill Shepherd Angela Lansbury Herbert Lom Arthur Lowe Ian Carmichael Jenny Runacre Jean Anderson
heiress american photographer nazi passenger elderly woman cheeky thrilling suspenseful amusing switzerland germany train bavaria train station hotel conspiracy missing persons train travel espionage
While travelling in pre-war Nazi Germany, a young couple realize a passenger seems to have been kidnapped off of their train, but, no other passenger aside from themselves, recalls her.
Drama
UK
1968
111 Minutes
Mr. Kemp
Malcolm McDowell David Wood Richard Warwick Robert Swann Christine Noonan Arthur Lowe Mona Washbourne Graham Crowden Simon Ward
anti-hero teenager headmaster prefect girlfriend boyfriend intense shocking england boarding school school disillusionment sex growing up wretched excess 1960s
In this allegorical story, a revolution led by pupil Mick Travis takes place at an old established private school in England.
Drama
1949
95 Minutes
Town Clerk
Eric Portman Guy Rolfe Nadia Gray Maurice Denham James Hayter Arthur Lowe
police chief bank robber accomplice government official beautiful woman crafty intricate patriotic paris bank prison police station bank heist world war i crime police work investigation rivalry transformation pursuit
A police chief (Eric Portman) recruits his safecracker nemesis (Guy Rolfe) for a government job in World War I Paris.
Comedy, Crime, Drama
UK
1949
104 Minutes
The Titbits Reporter
Alec Guinness Dennis Price Valerie Hobson Joan Greenwood Miles Malleson Hugh Griffith Jeremy Spenser Arthur Lowe
murderer wealthy man girlfriend admiral minister lady cheeky madcap england castle prison death family ambition class distinctions revenge fall 1900s
A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.
Horror, Comedy
UK
1973
104 Minutes
Horace Sprout
Vincent Price Diana Rigg Robert Morley Ian Hendry Harry Andrews Coral Browne Robert Coote Jack Hawkins Michael Hordern Arthur Lowe Dennis Price
actor critic daughter bum eerie gory witty offbeat theater london vengeance murder william shakespeare criticism revenge quest 1970s
A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.
Comedy
UK
1957
80 Minutes
Alastair Sim George Cole Terry-Thomas Jill Adams Avril Angers John Chandos Dora Bryan Colin Gordon Eileen Moore Raymond Huntley Cyril Chamberlain
assassin dictator millionaire politician salesman love interest cheeky dark playful england house restaurant political rally soccer field hotel hired killers suspicion bomb plot mistaken identity
An assassin is annoyed by a vacuum cleaner salesman determined to stop him.