Acting

Arnold Yarrow

Born April 17, 1920 · London, England

Died December 9, 2024 · aged 104

Arnold Yarrow was an actor, screenwriter and script editor. As a writer he wrote for series such as EastEnders, Crown Court, Softly, Softly, and Barlow at Large, the latter two he also served as script editor on. As an actor, his screen credits included the films Mahler and The Son of Pink Panther, though he was perhaps best known for playing Ethel Skinner's love interest Benny Bloom in EastEnder…

Known For

Son of the Pink Panther

Son of the Pink Panther · 1993

Son of the Pink Panther

MovieComedyCrime

The illegitimate son of Inspector Clouseau is on the case of the kidnapped Princess Yasmin.

Mahler

MovieDramaMusic

Famed composer Gustav Mahler reflects on the tragedies of his life and failing marriage while traveling by train.

Genghis Cohn

Genghis Cohn · 1993

MovieComedyTV Movie

In the midst of World War II, Nazi officer Otto Schatz declares the execution of Jewish music-hall comedian Genghis Cohn. Many years later, Otto is comfortably retired into the life of a highly respected police commissioner, and is investigating a series of murders when he encounters the ghost of Genghis Cohn. The haunting turns into a taunting, and before he knows it, Schatz is slowly driven mad as he is lured into a trap.

Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks

Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks · 1974

Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks

MovieDramaAction

An energy drain traps the Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith on the planet Exxilon with its hostile natives, causing the travellers to make an uneasy alliance with a Marine Space Corps expedition and a squadron of Daleks. The key to escape for all of them lies at the heart of a powerful and mysterious lost city, but only after a series of deadly traps.

Doctor Who

Doctor Who · 1963

SeriesDramaAction & Adventure

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.

Softly, Softly

Softly, Softly · 1966

SeriesDramaCrime

Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966. It centred around the work of regional crime squads, plain-clothes CID officers based in the fictional region of Wyvern, supposedly in the Bristol area of England.

Armchair Theatre

Armchair Theatre · 1956

Armchair Theatre

Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.

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Son of the Pink Panther

Son of the Pink Panther · 1993

Son of the Pink Panther

MovieComedyCrime

The illegitimate son of Inspector Clouseau is on the case of the kidnapped Princess Yasmin.

Uncle Idris

Mahler

MovieDramaMusic

Famed composer Gustav Mahler reflects on the tragedies of his life and failing marriage while traveling by train.

Grandfather

Genghis Cohn

Genghis Cohn · 1993

MovieComedyTV Movie

In the midst of World War II, Nazi officer Otto Schatz declares the execution of Jewish music-hall comedian Genghis Cohn. Many years later, Otto is comfortably retired into the life of a highly respected police commissioner, and is investigating a series of murders when he encounters the ghost of Genghis Cohn. The haunting turns into a taunting, and before he knows it, Schatz is slowly driven mad as he is lured into a trap.

Synagogue Warden

Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks

Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks · 1974

Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks

MovieDramaAction

An energy drain traps the Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith on the planet Exxilon with its hostile natives, causing the travellers to make an uneasy alliance with a Marine Space Corps expedition and a squadron of Daleks. The key to escape for all of them lies at the heart of a powerful and mysterious lost city, but only after a series of deadly traps.

Bellal

Doctor Who

Doctor Who · 1963

SeriesDramaAction & Adventure

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.

Bellal

Softly, Softly

Softly, Softly · 1966

SeriesDramaCrime

Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966. It centred around the work of regional crime squads, plain-clothes CID officers based in the fictional region of Wyvern, supposedly in the Bristol area of England.

Script Editor

Armchair Theatre

Armchair Theatre · 1956

Armchair Theatre

Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.

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