Arnold Yarrow

Arnold Yarrow was an actor, screenwriter and script editor. As a writer he wrote for series such as EastEnders, Crown Court, Softly, Softly, and Barlow at Large, the latter two he also served as script editor on. As an actor, his screen credits included the films Mahler and The Son of Pink Panther, though he was perhaps best known for playing Ethel Skinner's love interest Benny Bloom in EastEnders from 1988 to 1989. Three years after leaving the soap, the seventy-two year old Yarrow returned to the series as a writer, penning several episodes between 1992 and 1994. With this writing credit and his final on screen acting credits in the Screen Two film Genghis Cohen and London’s Burning in 1993, he subsequently retired from the industry altogether around the mid 90s. Yarrow also played Bellal in the 1974 Doctor Who serial Death to the Daleks and, following the death of Earl Cameron in 2020, was the show's oldest surviving cast member until his death, at the age of 104, in Herne Bay on 9th December 2024.

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  Doctor Who

  Bellal

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  Softly, Softly

  Script Editor

• Festival

  Doctor of Philosophy

• Crane

  Louis Barreto

• Barlow

  Writer

• Cold Warrior

  Graarud

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  Son of the Pink Panther

  Uncle Idris

• Second Verdict

  Story Editor

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  Armchair Theatre

  Enrico

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  Mahler

  Grandfather

• 1993Genghis CohnSynagogue Warden
• 1993Son of the Pink PantherUncle Idris
• 1984Cold WarriorGraarud
• 1976Second VerdictStory Editor
• 1974MahlerGrandfather
• 1974Doctor Who: Death to the DaleksBellal
• 1971BarlowWriter
• 1966The Man in the MirrorWaldo
• 1966Softly, SoftlyScript Editor
• 1963Doctor WhoBellal
• 1963FestivalDoctor of Philosophy
• 1963CraneLouis Barreto
• 1956Armchair TheatreEnrico