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00:00what's up wolf egg fam it's your boy kid back at it again we have an interview with arthur low aka
00:16who i know him as captain mannering ladies and gentlemen want to give a quick shout out to the
00:20homie seagull thanks for suggesting this sorry it took a little long for us to get through it
00:24uh you know to check it out uh you know i know we're doing so many suggestions we do our best
00:29to fulfill them so i do apologize that it takes a little long sometimes but you know hopefully
00:34you check this out alongside some others but uh yeah we have watched dad's army um we'll probably
00:40link it at the end um if anybody wants to check it out you know we watched it for the first time and
00:45absolutely fell in love with it so we want to hear what the man's got to say so uh go get your snacks
00:50whether you're new or recurrent because snacks is not included damn it you gotta bring your own let's
00:54get it snacks not included let's freaking go
00:58to create just one memorable character in a television series is no mean achievement for
01:07any actor and the bumbling old codger mr swindley will long be remembered by aficionados of coronation
01:13street but in between countless stage productions radio broadcasts and films our next guest developed
01:19another legendary character captain mannering in dad's arming let's go all right
01:28give me the rope wilson i'll have this bomb down in two shakes of a lamb's tail
01:35i've got a better idea
01:43look what you've done
01:52wait a minute i've got a better idea
01:56i've got a better idea
02:00turn the hands in hard sir
02:04come get an hand out
02:05ladies and gentlemen arthur lov
02:18it's good to see you in in civvy gear i must say what a marvelous team effort
02:35that was and what a great sadness when it finished arthur yes i people are still asking me when it's coming
02:43back you know and uh when i say that uh half of us are dead anyway and uh the other half are too old
02:51to jump over the fences anymore they sort of look at you in surprise you know but uh tv people don't get
02:58old i mean you know they think you're some secret of immortality but that's really the only reason why
03:06it stopped because as i said we lost three of our leading characters and uh and we were all getting
03:14rather old so you know we stopped while the going was still good now you are one of the lucky people
03:20are one of the the most um proficient actors that we see on television in that um instead of having a
03:26character stamped on you through and through like blackpool rock after swindley you you emerge
03:32as a completely different character in captain mannering how difficult was that for you to shake off that
03:37character of swindley well i mean it wasn't all that difficult because because of the uh the
03:46splendid writing you see of the series i mean that's the end that's the be all and the end all of
03:51uh of of all good series if if if the writing is good then you have a very much better chance
03:58uh than if the writing is bad and and i believe you have been in series where the writing has been very
04:03bad uh and hence that they they haven't lasted but if it's i think from the first script i i read
04:13of uh odette's army it was obvious that it was going to be good and that one could make something
04:21from the character without trying very hard really because it was it was there it was self-explanatory
04:26it was it was a bit like reading shaw you know there's a there's a saying in the theater that uh there
04:34are two ways of playing bernard shaw one is one is is to act and act him and the other is to learn the lines
04:41because if you if you learn the lines you don't need to act his writing is so good that if you just
04:47say the lines the rest will come yeah i know that you get cross sometimes when people say to you um
04:53how much of you is there in the character that you're portraying particularly with something like
04:57mannering you know what do you say to those people make you cross about that question
05:02well yeah it's a strange thing you see i believe that the less personality an actor has of his own
05:14the better he is able to portray the characters that his job demands of him
05:19um i don't think you should be very clever from a start to be a good actor
05:25yeah i think you should be very intelligent but once you start getting clever then forget it
05:31because that's that's not not your job to be clever your job is to is to interpret what the man has
05:38written just as a pianist's job is to interpret what what what his composer has written as you start
05:43being too clever then out the window goes the character you know um but but of course on the other
05:51side of the coin i think no matter how clever an actor may be um in in in hiding his own personality
05:59there must be a certain amount of himself comes into the part i don't think this can this can really
06:05be helped but i'm also keeping it at a minimum yes many people would have said that the next series
06:11you created the next sort of legendary character you created on television was potter red was potter
06:17who we all came to love and adore now you're in the middle of or you will be this summer
06:21recording another series thankfully yes we're going to do another six episodes on this summer
06:25yeah a lovely old cadre he was a retired managing director of the family firm yes who drove his wife
06:32mad she will have a reminder of a super moment from the last series where you were being extremely
06:38helpful to a a lost abandoned french couple and here you are practicing your french yeah can i be of any
06:46assistance you see oh could you i'm afraid i can't make myself understood oh it appears he's looking
06:53for grass mere road oh look who the goss mirror oui oui i'll remember it well
06:59me yes yes yes uh oh yeah no more at all it's a cake a morseau de gato
07:07Oh, well, now he's in good hands.
07:14Merci, madame.
07:16Au revoir, madame.
07:18Nice enough, old girl, but take a tip from me, monsieur.
07:21We're in Angleterre.
07:22Never take directions from the British members' arms.
07:25Même ça, Yves?
07:27Qu'est-ce que ça veut dire, madame?
07:29Tu sais?
07:30After a waste of time.
07:32No make inquiries par the British female.
07:36Anybody with a sense of direction couldn't wear a hat like that.
07:39Je ne sais pas, il dit des bêtises.
07:42Monsieur ne voulant seulement trouver Grassemire Rose.
07:46Yes, absolutely bon, yes.
07:47We'll soon have you in Grassemire Rose.
07:49Now, if Monsieur would remount his automobile, eh?
07:52Qu'est-ce que tu fais?
07:54Oh, tais-toi.
07:56Hey, mind the old tait.
07:57Not much room in these kiddy cars, is there?
07:59Wouldn't do for the Anglo-Saxon, you know.
08:01Great stuff.
08:04You laugh when you watch it, don't you?
08:06Yes, I know.
08:07Are you still amused by the whole thing?
08:08It is great, isn't it?
08:09What was in that suitcase?
08:10Something quite hairy.
08:12Damn.
08:13I felt it.
08:14Yes.
08:15Oh, yeah.
08:16And Actors Live is not just a glamorous one, is it?
08:17Oh, newspapers, I should think.
08:19It was very funny, wasn't it?
08:21Yeah, very good.
08:22And we'll look forward to it.
08:23When will we see that?
08:24In August?
08:25Um, well, I don't know.
08:27We shall...
08:28We're...
08:29No, it'll be...
08:30I should think next spring, before it'll come out.
08:32I should think so.
08:33I don't know.
08:34They may put them out.
08:35Now, completely another character, which you really did develop very successfully,
08:39is in Bless Me, Father.
08:41You enjoyed doing that, didn't you?
08:43Oh.
08:44The Roman Catholic Priest, yes.
08:45I enjoyed it very much.
08:46Yeah.
08:47I enjoyed that, because it was such a change from these, these, um, these bumbling old
08:52old Englishmen.
08:53But, uh, I would have liked to do more of that, but for some reason or other we didn't.
08:59I don't, I don't know quite why.
09:00Mm-hm.
09:01For one thing, I know young Abinari, the boy who played my curate, uh, went to Australia.
09:08More or less, you know, on a permanent basis.
09:11Mm-hm.
09:12There was a good girl out there, and, uh, and, uh, we lost him to the, uh, to the clergy.
09:17But, uh, uh, I don't think that was a sufficient reason in itself.
09:22I think there must have been, there must have been some other politics behind it.
09:24Mm-hm.
09:25Because one can always get another curate.
09:27But, um, however, Lionel Jeffers has done something similar.
09:32Yes.
09:33As recently, so...
09:34You're, you're such a busy man.
09:36You haven't really stopped working for 34 years when you first set foot on the stage in Manchester.
09:41Now, that was where you met your wife, Joan.
09:43Yes.
09:44Mm-hm.
09:45And you've been married to her ever since.
09:46Yeah.
09:47Now, the moment you're on tour with a production, which I saw last night and enjoyed enormously,
09:52a good old-fashioned production from R.C. Sheriff, a real old thriller.
09:56Home at seven.
09:57At seven.
09:58Mm-hm.
09:59What, what do you like about acting with the wife on stage?
10:02Don't destroy the microphones very well.
10:04Oh, I'm not joking.
10:06Well, I, I, I like it because it means that we get, we get a lot of, uh, of, uh, nice paid holidays.
10:16Uh...
10:17We were...
10:18We had a nice season in Eastbourne last year.
10:23And, uh, went to Australia and, and, uh, New Zealand the year before.
10:28And so on.
10:29Um, so that's nice.
10:31Yeah.
10:32Uh...
10:33We both get bored with holidays as such.
10:36Mm-hm.
10:37I, I, I, I can, I can't bear...
10:38That's, that's probably why you work so much.
10:40Sitting about on the tent.
10:41I'll smash this one, sorry.
10:43You're getting tangled up.
10:44While you sort yourself out, Alfa, thank you very much.
10:46It's been a pleasure.
10:54Oh, man.
10:55This, man, good to, you know, it was good to check this out.
10:59Let me switch screens, ladies and gentlemen.
11:01The man, Arthur Lowe.
11:03I can't say that, you know, we've seen the other shows, uh, anytime soon.
11:07Yes, yet.
11:08But, you know, like the Bless Me, uh, Bless You Father.
11:11Bless Me Father, excuse me.
11:12We get that name chopped up.
11:14I know it's one that's been suggested.
11:16And we didn't get to see him in the other role, uh, except for the main one that I seen.
11:22Uh, if you're new here on the channel, Dad's Army, Captain Manoring.
11:26That is where we fell in love with his character among all the other characters that were on this show.
11:31And it is quite sad.
11:33Um, just even knowing that this was his last interview, uh, obviously all the gang is, you know, has passed away.
11:41And, um, it's a shame, you know what I mean?
11:44Even just hearing, it was cool that, you know, he got to work a little bit with his wife there.
11:48Uh, and, you know, some people like to work a lot, you know, um, you know, you get bored, you know, you can, you can retire.
11:55You can have a, sometimes people retired and they're bored as shit.
12:00Like they, you know, you, you need to be keep doing stuff.
12:02But the saddest part is just knowing that all these guys, uh, you know, are gone.
12:07You know what I mean?
12:08You know, we saw it when, um, it happened, happened during the series.
12:12And then, you know, you, you, you're putting all the pieces together.
12:16Um, you know, and it's quite sad.
12:18And then the community obviously lets you know, uh, over the course of time, but, um, you know, just hearing him speak, just brought, brought a whole bunch of the great memories, the great moments.
12:30Don't tell him, but yeah, stupid boy among many great memorable lines, uh, on the show, great characters that we've been blessed to watch the show.
12:43Uh, and then we picked up watching another show with it ain't half hot mom.
12:47And, you know, been loving that show as show has brought me a lot of joy and, you know, it's, it's bittersweet.
12:53You know, we get to, we got a chance to experience.
12:56I think that all the characters, all, um, you know, all the people who were on the show would probably be smiling down on us, knowing that new people still watching the show, people who watched the show when it first came out are still watching a show, still enjoying it.
13:14So, you know, their work is like art, you know, it lives on, um, you know, people, you know, they ended up getting kids that, you know, Bobby, you know, whatever, Maria, whatever the hell her name.
13:25Hey, you're going to watch this show.
13:27This is a great show.
13:28Let's show you some good shit because the new shit sucks, ladies and gentlemen.
13:31And it continues to, to become, you know, worse and worse as time goes on, man.
13:36And you're like, how the hell this shit gets green lit and, you know, green light to, you know, come into, to life, man.
13:43So who knows, you know, and the sad part is that the legends that you guys grew up legends that I grew up watching, you know, slow, you know, slowly by shortly, we're losing a lot of the legends.
13:55And, and that's the sad part.
13:57You know what I mean?
13:58I don't want to think about like any others, you know, that it's unfortunate that it's a, uh, a fate that we all share at some point in time, you know, we all going to go in and, uh, you know, with these guys work, uh, it lives on, you know, new people like myself discovered it.
14:15Uh, you know, of course, between you all suggesting it.
14:18Um, but, so it was a nice to hear the interview, but it's at the same time, I was sad throughout the whole thing, you know, you, you're glued to seat.
14:26You want to hear what he's saying, but I'm like, man, they're all gone.
14:31You know what I mean?
14:32So it's, it's sad, ladies and gentlemen, I don't want to get all, you know, teary eyed and shit, you know, trying to make everybody, but you know, sad, but cool interview.
14:41You know, it sucks because we'll never get to see like newer works.
14:45If like, you know, um, but we can always watch the other stuff, uh, you know, that he has worked on among all the other greats.
14:52Uh, but you know, Captain Manoray, you know, but boy Pike, uh, Walker Jonesy, one of my favorite characters.
14:59Uh, you know, this was, it was a, it was an incredible, incredible journey.
15:04Uh, maybe we'll get a chance to explore the other characters, uh, you know, that he has got a chance to play.
15:10Uh, I know the bless me one.
15:12I was definitely suggested again.
15:13We chop up the name right now, you know, a brain fart right here.
15:16I got names, but man, this was cool to check out.
15:20Uh, shout out to my boy Siegel.
15:22Thanks so much for, you know, um, suggesting it that we check it out.
15:26Um, you know, I hope to see you guys soon.
15:28Don't forget to subscribe.
15:29It's free to do.
15:30It helps out the channel tremendously.
15:31I'm going to go and go cry right now, you know, cause this shit got me in the fields.
15:35Ladies and gentlemen, if it got you in the fields, let me know down below.
15:39Damn.
15:40I'm sad now, man.
15:41Shit.
15:42Guys.
15:49Damn.
15:50Yay.
15:54Yeah.
15:56One.
15:57It pretty is.
15:59Yes.
16:00Yeah.
16:02Yeah.
16:03Yeah.