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Lowe also played Mainwaring in a radio version of Dad's Army, a stage play and a feature-length film released in 1971. He played Mainwaring's drunken brother Barry Mainwaring, in the series' 1975 Christmas episode "My Brother and I". While Dad's Army was not in production, Lowe's work continued to include stage roles.
Captain George Mainwaring (/ ˈ m æ n ər ɪ ŋ /) is a fictional Home Guard captain, first portrayed by Arthur Lowe in the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army.In the 2016 film he is played by Toby Jones and in the 2019 remake of three missing episodes he is played by Kevin McNally.
A scene in this episode involving Captain Mainwaring and his brother Barry is considered to be one of the "great[est] scenes" in the series. [ 11 ] In the 2007 documentary Dad's Army: The Passing Years , Frank Williams described the episode as being "most wonderful", praising particularly the dual role of Lowe, which he described as being ...
A 2001 Channel 4 poll ranked Captain Mainwaring 21st on its list of the 100 Greatest TV Characters. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 2004, Dad's Army came fourth in a BBC poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom . It was placed 13th in a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes , drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000, and voted for by industry ...
He played Captain Mainwaring in the film Dad's Army, released in February 2016. In July, of the same year he starred as the eponymous agent Verloc in the BBC's The Secret Agent , a three-part television adaptation of Joseph Conrad's 1907 novel .
Mainwaring obliges, and just as he hangs up the phone Wilson walks in and informs Mainwaring that the reason for his late arrival is that he was out buying an officer's cap, further infuriating Mainwaring. A war of words ensues between Mainwaring and Wilson, which boils down to the fact that Wilson went to public school. To annoy Wilson ...
The next morning, Mainwaring arrives stiffly, wearing the pair of size 6 shoes. He hobbles into the office, just as Mr Sedgewick arrives with the pair of boots he left for repair last week: a 6½. The men joke with Mainwaring, not realising the truth, even when Mainwaring jovially tells Jones to lead the men off on their twenty-mile march.
Mainwaring arrives and asserts his authority on the boy and tells him to clear off. The boy states that he is going to "tell his Uncle Willie", who turns out to be the Chief Warden, Hodges. Hodges confronts Mainwaring and his platoon about the way they treated his nephew.