# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arthur-brough
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:52:01.929Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arthur-brough"
name: "Arthur Brough"
slug: "arthur-brough"
description: "Arthur Brough was a British actor, theatre founder, producer, and director. He is best known for portraying the bumbling senior menswear salesman Ernest Grainger on the BBC TV sitcom Are You Being Served?."
tagline: "British actor (1905-1978)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/85/Arthur_Brough_AYBS.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1905-02-26"
deathDate: "1978-05-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.13
  momentum:             3.262331838565023
  historical:           7.625210666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0112645/"
    handle:    "nm0112645"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Arthur Brough"
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    title: "ارثر بروج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Brough"
    title: "Arthur Brough"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Brough"
    title: "Arthur Brough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Brough"
    title: "Arthur Brough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Brough"
    title: "Arthur Brough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8caac7b3-f06a-4375-82f1-57d3f3af8737"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2370086"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/92045"
    title: "Arthur Brough"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump