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| name = Arthur Bostrom
| birth_name = Arthur Bostrom
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1955|1|6|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Rugby, Warwickshire]], England
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| years_active = 1981–present
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| homepage ={{url|http://www.arthurbostrom.com/}}
| notable role = [[Officer Crabtree]] in ''[['Allo 'Allo!]]''
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'''Arthur Bostrom''' <small>[[FRGS]]</small><ref>{{cite web|url=http://steveorme.co.uk/news/never-a-dull-moment-for-actor-arthur/|title=Never a dull moment for actor Arthur - Steve Orme Productions|publisher=|accessdate=9 October 2014}}</ref> (born 6 January 1955) is an English actor, most famous for his role as [[Officer Crabtree]] in the long-running [[BBC]] TV sitcom ''[['Allo 'Allo!]]''.
==Biography==
Bostrom was born in [[Rugby, Warwickshire]] and attended [[Lawrence Sheriff School]], where he was a contemporary with [[Kevin Warwick]]. He graduated from [[St Chad's College]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stchads.ac.uk/notable.html |title=Notable Alumni |publisher= |accessdate=9 October 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203074843/http://www.stchads.ac.uk/notable.html |archivedate=3 December 2013 }}</ref> [[University of Durham]]. Besides his television career, he acted on the stage regularly, also being a trained [[life coaching|life coach]]. He lived in [[Manchester]] for a long time.
Bostrom had a recurrent character in ''[['Allo 'Allo!]]'', first appearing midway through the second series and remaining until the show's finale. [[Officer Crabtree]] was played as an idiotic British undercover officer, disguised constantly as a French local police agent during the [[Second World War]]. Much of the character's humour derived from his supposed inability to pronounce French words correctly in conversation, which, on an English-language television programme, was represented by ludicrous exaggeration and mispronunciation of ordinary English words. For example, "Good morning" would be pronounced as "Gid moaning", "I was just passing round the corner" would be "I was just pissing roond the corner", and famously, "The bombers were being chased by fighters when they dropped their bombs on the London docks" became "The bummers were being chased by farters when they drooped their bums on the London dicks'. Bostrom actually speaks fluent French.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alloallo.org.uk/castcrew/bostrom.html |title=Arthur Bostrom |publisher=www.alloallo.org.uk |accessdate=21 September 2009 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091022220839/http://www.alloallo.org.uk/castcrew/bostrom.html |archivedate=22 October 2009 |deadurl=yes |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
In 2005, Bostrom guest-starred in ''[[Dead Man Walking (Sapphire and Steel)|Dead Man Walking]]'', an [[audio drama]] based on the television series ''[[Sapphire and Steel]]''. From December 2007 to January 2008, he continued his pantomime run when he appeared in a production as an ugly sister in ''Cinderella'' in Middlesbrough. On 8 January 2008, he appeared in an episode of ''[[List of Big Brother (UK) shows#Big Brother's Big Mouth|Big Brother's Big Mouth]]'' on [[E4 (channel)|E4]]. He discussed events in the house after introducing the show in the familiar character of Officer Crabtree.
On 3 March 2010 he appeared as a vicar in the [[BBC One]] daytime [[soap opera]] ''[[Doctors (2000 TV series)|doctors]]'' and again in ''doctors'' (17:163) on 25/01/2016 as sommelier Murray Bathurst.
Bostrom appeared (alongside fellow '' 'Allo 'Allo!'' alumnus [[Sam Kelly]]) in the BBC radio dramatisation of ''[[The Good Soldier Švejk]]'' by [[Jaroslav Hašek]] in November 2008, playing the part of Wendler.
In November 2012, Bostrom appeared in [[Hebburn (TV series)]] as a newspaper editor.
In 2017, he appeared the BBC series ''[[Father Brown (2013 TV series)|Father Brown]]'' as Richie Queen in episode 5.12 "The Theatre of the Invisible"
In 2017 he appeared on Celebrity [[Pointless]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
*[http://www.arthurbostrom.com Official website]
*{{IMDb name|id=0098284|name=Arthur Bostrom}}
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{{Infobox person
| image = <!-- Non-free image removed per [[WP:NFCC]]#1; please do not replace -->
| caption =
| imagesize =
| name = Arthur Bostrom
| birth_name = Arthur Bostrom
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1955|1|6|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Rugby, Warwickshire]], England
| death_date =
| death_place =
| othername =
| years_active = 1981–present
| spouse =
| homepage ={{url|http://www.arthurbostrom.com/}}
| notable role = [[Officer Crabtree]] in ''[['Allo 'Allo!]]''
}}
'''Arthur Bostrom''' <small>[[FRGS]]</small><ref>{{cite web|url=http://steveorme.co.uk/news/never-a-dull-moment-for-actor-arthur/|title=Never a dull moment for actor Arthur - Steve Orme Productions|publisher=|accessdate=9 October 2014}}</ref> (born 6 January 1955) is an English actor, most famous for his role as [[Officer Crabtree]] in the long-running [[BBC]] TV sitcom ''[['Allo 'Allo!]]''.
==Biography==
Bostrom was born in [[Rugby, Warwickshire]] and attended [[Lawrence Sheriff School]], where he was a contemporary with [[Kevin Warwick]]. He graduated from [[St Chad's College]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stchads.ac.uk/notable.html |title=Notable Alumni |publisher= |accessdate=9 October 2014 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203074843/http://www.stchads.ac.uk/notable.html |archivedate=3 December 2013 }}</ref> [[University of Durham]]. Besides his television career, he acted on the stage regularly, also being a trained [[life coaching|life coach]]. He lived in [[Manchester]] for a long time.
Bostrom had a recurrent character in ''[['Allo 'Allo!]]'', first appearing midway through the second series and remaining until the show's finale. [[Officer Crabtree]] was played as an idiotic British undercover officer, disguised constantly as a French local police agent during the [[Second World War]]. Much of the character's humour derived from his supposed inability to pronounce French words correctly in conversation, which, on an English-language television programme, was represented by ludicrous exaggeration and mispronunciation of ordinary English words. For example, "Good morning" would be pronounced as "Gid moaning", "I was just passing round the corner" would be "I was just pissing roond the corner", and famously, "The bombers were being chased by fighters when they dropped their bombs on the London docks" became "The bummers were being chased by farters when they drooped their bums on the London dicks'. Bostrom actually speaks fluent French.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alloallo.org.uk/castcrew/bostrom.html |title=Arthur Bostrom |publisher=www.alloallo.org.uk |accessdate=21 September 2009 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091022220839/http://www.alloallo.org.uk/castcrew/bostrom.html |archivedate=22 October 2009 |deadurl=yes |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
In 2005, Bostrom guest-starred in ''[[Dead Man Walking (Sapphire and Steel)|Dead Man Walking]]'', an [[audio drama]] based on the television series ''[[Sapphire and Steel]]''. From December 2007 to January 2008, he continued his pantomime run when he appeared in a production as an ugly sister in ''Cinderella'' in Middlesbrough. On 8 January 2008, he appeared in an episode of ''[[List of Big Brother (UK) shows#Big Brother's Big Mouth|Big Brother's Big Mouth]]'' on [[E4 (channel)|E4]]. He discussed events in the house after introducing the show in the familiar character of Officer Crabtree.
On 3 March 2010 he appeared as a vicar in the [[BBC One]] daytime [[soap opera]] ''[[Doctors (2000 TV series)|doctors]]'' and again in ''doctors'' (17:163) on 25/01/2016 as sommelier Murray Bathurst.
Bostrom appeared (alongside fellow '' 'Allo 'Allo!'' alumnus [[Sam Kelly]]) in the BBC radio dramatisation of ''[[The Good Soldier Švejk]]'' by [[Jaroslav Hašek]] in November 2008, playing the part of Wendler.
In November 2012, Bostrom appeared in [[Hebburn (TV series)]] as a newspaper editor.
In 2017, he appeared the BBC series ''[[Father Brown (2013 TV series)|Father Brown]]'' as Richie Queen in episode 5.12 "The Theatre of the Invisible"
In 2017 he appeared on Celebrity [[Pointless]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
*[http://www.arthurbostrom.com Official website]
*{{IMDb name|id=0098284|name=Arthur Bostrom}}
{{authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bostrom, Arthur}}
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[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:People from Rugby, Warwickshire]]
[[Category:People educated at Lawrence Sheriff School]]
[[Category:Alumni of St Chad's College, Durham]]
[[Category:English male stage actors]]
[[Category:English male television actors]]
[[Category:Life coaches]]
[[Category:Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society]]
[[Category:20th-century English male actors]]
[[Category:21st-century English male actors]]
[[Category:Pantomime dames]]
[[Category:British male comedy actors]]
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