Name: | Arthur English |
Occupation: | Actor |
Gender: | Male |
Birth Day: | May 9, 1919 |
Death Date: | 16 April 1995(1995-04-16) (aged 75) Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey, England |
Age: | Aged 75 |
Birth Place: | Aldershot, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom |
Zodiac Sign: | Gemini |
Arthur English
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# | Name | Relationship | Net Worth | Salary | Age | Occupation |
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#1 | Clare-Louise English | Children | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
#2 | Teresa English | Spouse | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
#3 | Ivy English | Spouse | N/A | N/A | N/A |
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As per our current Database, Arthur English died on 16 April 1995(1995-04-16) (aged 75)
Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey, England.
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Biography
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After serving in the British Army in World War II with the Hampshire Regiment and the Royal Armoured Corps, reaching the rank of sergeant, English worked as a painter and decorator in his native town and in the evenings worked as a semi-professional entertainer in various local venues polishing up his comedy routines. He 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. They had two children, Ann Faith (1942–1999) and Anthony (born 1947).
In 1949, while still employed in Aldershot as a painter and decorator, English and his then stage partner Jonny Carrol unsuccessfully auditioned at the Windmill Theatre in London. On a second, and this time solo audition with Vivian Van Damm, English became resident comedian at the Windmill Theatre at the same time compering a show for Bob Potter. English stayed at the Windmill as the principal comic until August 1950.
English appeared in the Royal Variety Performance in 1951 and 1980. He had been president of Aldershot Town F.C. which had been formed out of the ashes of Aldershot F.C. The new club badge depicted a rising phoenix and was designed by English. He had also 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.
Following the death of his wife Ivy (1919–75) English began to drink. In 1977 English married a young dancer, Teresa Mann (born 1955), whom he met while they were performing in a pantomime together at Wimbledon, and in 1981 the couple had a daughter – Clare-Louise English, the partially deaf actress who runs the Hot Coals Theatre which specialises in plays for the deaf. The performers John Inman and Jack Douglas were the child’s godparents. The couple separated in 1986 and the marriage was dissolved in 1987. The last four years of his life were spent in Devereux House, a care home in Farnborough.
He had more likeable roles in two British children’s TV series: The Ghosts of Motley Hall, which ran from 1976 to 1978 on ITV (produced by Granada Television), and as “Slugger” in Follyfoot, which ran from 1971 to 1973, also on ITV (produced by Yorkshire Television). He was in several other films including For the Love of Ada (1972) as “Arthur” and Everyday Maths (1978), a British TV schools programme starring Jack Wild as English’s grandson. In 1978 he was the subject in This Is Your Life, while in May 1983 he was a guest on Desert Island Discs with Roy Plomley. Also in 1983 he played Frosch in Die Fliedermaus with English National Opera at the London Coliseum. In 1985 he appeared in an episode of the American TV series Magnum, P.I..
Arthur English died in 1995 at Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey as a result of complications from emphysema. After a funeral service at St Michael’s church at which fellow Water Rat Jimmy Perry read the oration his body was cremated at the Park Crematorium in Aldershot where his ashes were later interred in a plot with those of his first wife.
An Aldershot Civic Society blue plaque was unveiled by actor and singer Jess Conrad OBE on 15 July 2017 at 22 Lysons Road where English was born in 1919.
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