Arthur Howard


Arthur Howard was an English stage, film and television actor.

Life and career

Born in Camberwell, London, Howard was the younger son of Lilian and Ferdinand "Frank" Steiner. His brother was the film actor Leslie Howard and his sister the casting director Irene Howard. His uncle was the film director Wilfrid Noy. He married the actress Jean Compton Mackenzie in 1936 and they had a son together, the stage actor Alan Howard.
Arthur appeared in several television programmes such as Whack-O, a school comedy in which he played the hapless assistant headmaster Pettigrew to Jimmy Edwards's headmaster, and he was in the 1959 film version Bottoms Up. He appeared in many films, including American Friends and The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins, and had the small role of Cavendish in the James Bond film Moonraker.
In 1961 he was arrested for importuning and spent a week in prison. He is buried in the East London Cemetery. He died in Westminster, London.

Filmography