Cast: Arthur Lowe

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Arthur Lowe. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Kind Hearts and Coronets

1949 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Hamer

Cast Dennis Price · Alec Guinness · Joan Greenwood · Valerie Hobson

Synopsis Louis Manzzini's mother belongs to the aristocratic family D'Ascoyne, but she ran away with an opera singer. Therefore, she and Louis were rejected by the D'Ascoynes. Once adult, Louis decides to avenges his mother and him, by becoming the next...

7.6

5K votes

7.6

5K votes

If....

1968 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lindsay Anderson

Cast Malcolm McDowell · David Wood · Richard Warwick · Robert Swann

Synopsis In an inditement of the British Boys School, we follow Mick and his mostly younger friends through a series of indignities and occasionally abuse as any fond feelings toward these schools are destroyed. When Mick and his friends rebel, violently,...

7.0

4K votes

7.0

4K votes

This Sporting Life

1963 · Movie · 129 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lindsay Anderson

Cast Richard Harris · Glenda Jackson · Rachel Roberts · Alan Badel

Synopsis Richard Harris is Frank Machin, an aggressive rugby-playing miner in the north of England who destroys the relationship he wants most by the force of his rebellious will. Anderson's incisive comment on class expatiation is as forceful as it is...

7.0

858 votes

7.0

858 votes

O Lucky Man!

1973 · Movie · 183 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lindsay Anderson

Cast Malcolm McDowell · Ralph Richardson · Rachel Roberts · Arthur Lowe

Synopsis This sprawling, surrealist musical serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in Europe. Many actors play multiple roles, giving the film a stagy tone.

7.0

667 votes

7.0

667 votes

The Ruling Class

1972 · Movie · 154 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Medak

Cast Peter O'Toole · Alastair Sim · Arthur Lowe · Harry Andrews

Synopsis A member of the House of Lords dies in a shockingly silly way, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son is insane: he thinks he is Jesus Christ. The other somewhat-more respectable members of their family plot to...

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6.6

212 votes

6.6

212 votes

The Spider and the Fly

1949 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Hamer

Cast Eric Portman · Guy Rolfe · Nadia Gray · George Cole

Synopsis A clever and dedicated French police official, a cleverer master-thief whom he secretly admires, the woman loved by the official who is in love with the thief, at the outbreak of World War I.

6.2

24 votes

6.2

24 votes

The Lady Vanishes

1979 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Page

Cast Angela Lansbury · Cybill Shepherd · Elliott Gould · Herbert Lom

Synopsis During a travel by train across the pre-Second World War Germany, the American heiress Amanda Kelly met sweet English nanny Miss Froy. She mysteriously disappeared and everyone in the train denies having ever seen her. Amanda and American photographer Robert...

5.8

193 votes

5.8

193 votes

The White Bus

1967 · Movie · 46 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lindsay Anderson

Cast Patricia Healey · Arthur Lowe · John Sharp · Anthony Hopkins

Synopsis An impassive young girl is taken from her suicidal London life, back to her home in North England on a bizarre bus trip. Seen through the poetic eye of the camera, this is a commentary of doomed British morbidity. In...

5.0

38 votes

5.0

38 votes

Coronation Street (TV Series)

1960 · Series · 20 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tony Warren · John Anderson · Tony Prescott · Ian Bevitt

Cast William Roache · Helen Worth · Simon Gregson · Anne Kirkbride

Synopsis TV Series (1960-Present). The UK's longest-running TV soap, Coronation Street focuses on the everyday lives of working class people in Manchester, England.

4.2

41 votes

4.2

41 votes

A Stranger in Town

1957 · Movie · 74 min. · United Kingdom

Direction George Pollock

Cast Alex Nicol · Anne Paige · Mary Laura Wood · Mona Washbourne

Synopsis In a sleepy village, a young composer is found shot dead and a woman is found gassed.

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Blind Spot

1958 · Movie · 72 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Maxwell

Cast Robert MacKenzie · Delphi Lawrence · Gordon Jackson · Anne Sharp

Synopsis A blind American Army officer becomes involved in a murder mystery and solves it after regaining his sight.

Not rated

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No Sex Please - We're British

1973 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cliff Owen

Cast Ronnie Corbett · Beryl Reid · Arthur Lowe · Ian Ogilvy

Synopsis Porn store owner Pete orders some new stuff from his supplier Niko but Niko mixes up the address with the address of the local Barclays Bank. Here, newly-weds David (the bank's assistant manager) and Penny Hunter is shocked when first...

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Hour of Decision

1957 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom

Direction C.M. Pennington-Richards

Cast Jeff Morrow · Hazel Court · Lionel Jeffries · Mary Laura Wood

Synopsis An American journalist solves the mystery of an unpleasant columnist's murder and clears his own wife, one of the many suspects.

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Direction Joseph McGrath

Cast John Cleese · Arthur Lowe · Ron Moody · Holly Palance

Synopsis The grandchild of Professor James Moriarty had promised the world that it has only five days left to live. Moriarty is a master of disguise, a crack shot, and is very patient. Several government figures are shot to death, and...

Not rated

Not rated

Dad's Army (TV Series)

1968 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Croft · Harold Snoad · Bob Spiers

Cast Arthur Lowe · John Le Mesurier · Clive Dunn · Ian Lavender

Synopsis Dad's Army follows the Walmington-On-Sea Home Guard commanded by Captain Mainwaring and his assistant Sergeant Wilson. The large platoon are totally ill-prepared for an attack from the Nazis and none are fit to fight. Private Frazer is a moaning Scotsman,...

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Direction Kevin Billington

Cast Peter Cook · Denholm Elliott · Ronald Fraser · Vanessa Howard

Synopsis Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics, and in the mini-skirted flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain starts to rise...

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Final Appointment

1954 · Movie · 65 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Fisher

Cast John Bentley · Eleanor Summerfield · Hubert Gregg · Liam Redmond

Synopsis A reporter and his girlfriend--also a reporter--investigate threats against a retired army officer and discover that they're linked to a series of murders and a court-martial that occurred during the war.

Not rated

Not rated

High Terrace

1956 · Movie · 69 min. · United Kingdom

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Spring and Port Wine

1970 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Hammond

Cast James Mason · Diana Coupland · Hannah Gordon · Susan George

Synopsis A stern father and lenient mother try to deal with the ups and downs of their four children's lives in working class Bolton.

Not rated

Not rated