1. Arthur Leslie Norman English was an English television, film and stage actor and comedian from the music hall tradition.
12 Facts About Arthur English
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Arthur English attended West End Boys School in Aldershot from the age of 5 to 14.
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Arthur English married Ivy Ruth Martin in 1941; it was she who made his enormous kipper ties out of brightly coloured curtain material at the beginning of his stage career.
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Arthur English stayed at the Windmill as the principal comic until August 1950.
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Arthur English played Arthur, Alf Garnett's mate, in In Sickness and in Health, a follow-up series to Till Death Us Do Part from 1985 to 1990.
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Arthur English had more likeable roles in two British children's TV series: The Ghosts of Motley Hall, which ran from 1976 to 1978 on ITV, and as "Slugger" in Follyfoot, which ran from 1971 to 1973, on ITV.
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Arthur English was in several other films including For the Love of Ada as "Arthur" and Everyday Maths, a British TV schools programme starring Jack Wild as English's grandson.
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Arthur English appeared in the Royal Variety Performance in 1951 and 1980.
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Arthur English had been president of Aldershot Town FC which had been formed out of the ashes of Aldershot FC The new club badge depicted a rising phoenix and was designed by English.
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Arthur English had been a long-standing member of the showbusiness charity the Grand Order of Water Rats, which he joined in 1970, a Freeman of the City of London and an Honorary Freeman of the Borough of Rushmoor.
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Arthur English died in 1995 at Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey as a result of complications from emphysema.
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An Aldershot Civic Society blue plaque was unveiled by actor and singer Jess Conrad OBE on 15 July 2017 at 22 Lysons Road where Arthur English was born in 1919.