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name: "Arthur Margetson"
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born: "26 April 1887"
died: "13 August 1951"
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# Arthur Margetson

Actor. Born 26 April 1887 in Marylebone, London, England, UK. Died 13 August 1951.

## Details

- **Born:** 26 April 1887, Marylebone, London, England, UK
- **Died:** 13 August 1951
- **Also known as:** Артур Маргетсон, Arthur Charles Margetson
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Margetson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4799640, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0546657/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/96602

## Biography

Arthur Margetson (1887–1951) was a British stage and film actor. He began his stage career in 1917 and appeared regularly on Broadway after 1929, with later Hollywood film work from 1940. He was also a composer of music and lyrics and an impersonator.

His film roles include Chetwynd in *Random Harvest* (1942) and Dr. Bob Sexton in *Sherlock Holmes Faces Death* (1943). Stage credits encompass numerous Broadway productions in musicals and comedies through the 1940s.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Random Harvest* (1942), Fi1m 76, as Chetwynd — [page](https://film.one/film/random-harvest.md)

## Complete filmography (23)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Sherlock Holmes Faces Death* (1943), as Dr. Bob Sexton
- *Thumbs Up* (1943), as Bert Lawrence
- *Commandos Strike at Dawn* (1942), as German Colonel
- *Random Harvest* (1942), as Chetwynd — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/random-harvest.md)
- *Return to Yesterday* (1940), as Osbert
- *The Nursemaid Who Disappeared* (1939), Actor
- *The Return of Carol Deane* (1938), as Mark Poynton
- *Smash and Grab* (1937), as Malvern
- *Action for Slander* (1937), as Capt. Hugh Bradford
- *Pagliacci* (1936), as Tonio
- *Juggernaut* (1936), as Roger Clifford
- *Broken Blossoms* (1936), as Battling Burrows
- *Music Hath Charms* (1936), as Alan Sterling
- *I Give My Heart* (1935), as Count du Barry
- *The Divine Spark* (1935), as Ernesto Tosi
- *The Mystery of the Mary Celeste* (1935), as Capt. Benjamin Briggs
- *The Great Defender* (1934), as Leslie Locke
- *Little Friend* (1934), as Hilliard
- *His Grace Gives Notice* (1933), as George Barwick
- *Flat No. 9* (1932), as John Danvers
- *Many Waters* (1931), as Jim Barcaldine
- *Other People's Sins* (1931), as Bernard Barrington
- *Wolves* (1930), as Mark

## Gallery

- ![Arthur Margetson](https://film.one/media/person/1233285/gallery-f65c299d5fa8.jpg) Arthur Margetson — Talbot (no information re: where the shown location may be), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Arthur_Margetson_1946.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Arthur Margetson](https://film.one/media/person/1233285/gallery-8d31293412c2.jpg) Arthur Margetson — Image via TMDB

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