 Arthur appeared in several television programmes such as "Whack-O", a school comedy in which he played the hapless assistant headmaster Pettigrew to Jimmy Edwards's headmaster, and he was in the 1959 film version "Bottoms Up".He appeared in many films, including "American Friends" and "The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins", and had the small role of Cavendish in the James Bond film "Moonraker".In 1961 he was arrested for importuning and spent a week in prison.