Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~ Arthur Brough

[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]

Frederick Arthur Baker was born in Petersfield, Hampshire, England on February 26, 1905. As Arthur Brough he was a British actor and theatre founder, producer and director best known for portraying the character of bumbling senior menswear salesman Ernest Grainger on the BBC TV sitcom ‘Are You Being Served?’

Brough originally wanted to become a teacher but failed to gain such employment and worked in a solicitor's office. After taking an interest in acting, Brough attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1928. He then joined a Shakespearean theatrical troupe, where he met his wife-to-be, actress Elizabeth Addyman [1900-1978]. After they married in 1929, they used their wedding dowry as collateral to rent the Leas Pavilion, a repertory theatre in Folkestone, Kent. The couple had one daughter, Joanna [1933-2002] who became the curator of the Brontë Parsonage Museum.

Brough was also a regular guest on such British television shows as ‘Upstairs, Downstairs’, ‘Dad's Army’, ‘Z-Cars’, ‘The Persuaders!’, and ‘Jason King’. Brough retired from acting in 1978 shortly after his wife’s passing.

BROUGH, Arthur (Frederick Arthur Baker) [2/26/1905 Petersfield, Hampshire, England, U.K. – 5/28/1978, Folkestone, Kent, England, U.K.]– producer, director, theater film actor, married to actress Elizabeth Addyman [1900-1978] (1929–1978) father of curator of the Brontë Parsonage Museum Joanna Hutton [1933-2002].

The Singer Not the Song – 1961 (farmer)