Arthur Bostrom is a British actor. He is most famous for his role as Officer Crabtree in the long-running BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo. The character of Crabtree was played as an idiotic English under-cover officer, disguised constantly as a French gendarme during the Second World War. Much of the character's humour derived from his supposed inability to speak good French, which, on an English-language television programme, was represented by ludicrious over-exaggeration and mis-pronunciation of ordinary words. For example, "Good Morning" would be pronounced as "Gid Moaning!" and, famously, "I was just passing round the corner" would be "I wis just pissing roond the corner". Bostrom continues to act on stage occasionally. Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national broadcaster of the United Kingdom. ... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... Allo Allo! was a British sitcom that ran on BBC1 from 1984 to 1992. ... Gendarme can mean: A gendarme (French gens darmes, men at arms) is a military policeman belonging to the gendarmerie. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...

A tall and distinguished looking man, he was born in Rugby, Warwickshire on 6 January 1955, and is a graduate of St Chad's College, University of Durham. Rugby might refer to the sport called rugby: Rugby football Rugby league Rugby union Touch Rugby Tag Rugby Wheelchair Rugby Rugby is also the name of several places: Rugby, Warwickshire (England) within the Borough of Rugby Rugby, North Dakota Rugby, Tennessee Rugby, Brooklyn Rugby may also refer to: Rugby School... Warwickshire (pronounced worrickshur or worricksheer) is a landlocked county in central England. ... St Chads College is a college of the University of Durham in England. ... Durham University is a university in England. ...

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