Talk:Arthur Lowe

Filmography
I am doing his filmogrophy and TV Roles so do not delete them please —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.70.149.136 (talk) 09:51, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Death - odd non sequitur
There's a rather odd wording here:

''His ashes were scattered at Sutton Coldfield crematorium and a memorial service was held in St Martin-in-the-Fields. It was attended by many actors, including most of the Dad's Army cast, yet his wife Joan refused to attend the funeral.''

- the "yet" seems to suggest that what his wife didn't attend was perhaps the memorial service, but the text says it was the funeral. They are not the same thing, so the sentence as it stands does not make sense. Further, it's in any case a slightly contentious wording - "refused" has, without further context, a slight PoV ring - and should perhaps be revised, or checked and properly referenced. After all for I know she didn't go to the funeral because she was unwell, but the article has this rather stronger "refused" without telling me why. Expert intervention please?? :) 138.37.199.206 (talk) 07:23, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Yes 'refused doe imply that she did not attend out of spite, when in fact she could have had innocent reasons for not atending the funeral Franny-K (talk) 16:26, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Feel free to change things without asking complete consensus. Akafd76 14:23, 31 December 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Akafd76 (talk • contribs)

favourite drink?
apologies for bringing conjecture into this, but i though it best to ask before editing the entry. i heard from a friend that Arthur Lowe's drink of choice was Hendricks and tonic. I have not been able to confirm this on the net, and have yet to find out the exact source of my friend's information- can anyone else shed any light?

Also; i guess this should be asked; is this relevant and should it even be included in the main entry? 90.213.67.157 (talk) 20:06, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Alcoholic claim is probably untrue and certainly needs a cite
I've deleted the paragraph (added this year) which said he was an acoholic, because absolutely no evidence is offered of this quite serious claim. Graham Lord's biography is indirectly cited, but here's a sample review I found: "Little of the sheer funny side of Lowe emerges from Lord's largely unilluminating and gloom-ridden book with its inevitable sad ending - Arthur's narcolepsy and Joan's drunken, squalid last days." (my emphasis)

According to the documentary I saw, it was his wife who suffered from alcoholism, Lowe himself suffered from narcolepsy. It is of course entirely possible that the documentary was inaccurate and the biography had it correct, but according to that review at least, the Lord biography is consistent with the documentary, i.e. it was his wife who was an alcoholic, Lowe himself had narcolepsy. In the absence of a verifiable, page referenced source, I think the claim should stay out of the article. --Merlinme (talk) 16:13, 19 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Graham Lord's biography makes it quite clear that Arthur himself was consuming a vast amount of alcohol in his last years. (92.7.29.27 (talk) 17:32, 15 May 2012 (UTC))


 * That doesn't necessarily make him an alcoholic - just a heavy drinker. Richerman ''   (talk) 08:09, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

His doctors had told him in 1979 to cut back on drinking but instead he began to drink more. (92.7.14.29 (talk) 15:30, 17 May 2012 (UTC))


 * Doctors are always telling their patients to cut down on their drinking. Malleus Fatuorum 15:37, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Mr Men
Is he the same Arthur Lowe that narrated the original "Mr Men" series ? If so should add to TV roles, if not, maybe make a note that is was someone else. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.81.139.172 (talk) 19:32, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Narcolepsy/stroke
As of 8/11/12: "Lowe had long suffered from narcolepsy,[5] collapsing from the onset of a stroke in..." suggesting that there was a connection between his narcolepsy and his stroke. Was there? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.122.44.180 (talk) 19:44, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

Not at all. As Graham Lord's biography made clear, Lowe's health problems were the result of his heavy drinking and smoking, and increasing weight. (92.7.1.215 (talk) 09:29, 27 February 2013 (UTC))


 * There still is surely some ambiguity in the reporting here: if he was known to “pass out on stage”, who but a medical practitioner on the scene would be able to say that the only cause was alcoholism, and not his narcolepsy? If the suggestion is that he wasn’t in fact narcoleptic, and that the states of unconsciousness were solely the result of alcohol, it should certainly be made more clear. If it is the case that he was both alcoholic and narcoleptic, how can it be shown that his passing out was not the result of narcolepsy rather than drink? Graham Lord’s biography may have made this clear (I don’t know, I’ve not read it/ got it), but the article as it stands doesn’t. Jock123 (talk) 14:28, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Cigarettes and weight
Are they actually connected - or should the sentence be rephrased? 193.132.104.10 (talk) 14:49, 24 September 2015 (UTC)

External links modified
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WW2 service
There seems to be some uncertainty about whether he served in the army or the RAF in WW2. PatGallacher (talk) 00:17, 17 February 2018 (UTC)