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Arnold Lucy (born Walter George Campbell, 8 August 1865 – 15 December 1945) was a British theatre and film actor, best known as Professor Kantorek in ''
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'' (1930).


Life and career

Lucy was the youngest of the six sons of architect and surveyor Donald Campbell and his wife Lucy Elizabeth (née Speak) of Church Lane, Hornfield Lodge,
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. His parents married in 1853. Their youngest child and only daughter, Rose Lucy, was born in 1871. Arnold Lucy started his acting career in the late 19th century at the theatre. He said that he performed on the London West End stage over 1,200 times before making his film debut in the silent film ''The Devil's Toy'' (1916). Lucy played in over 40 British and
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movies between 1916 and 1938, mostly in small roles. He often portrayed authoritarian and dignified roles, most notable as Professor Kantorek, the nationalistic school teacher in ''
All Quiet on the Western Front ''All Quiet on the Western Front'' (german: Im Westen nichts Neues, lit=Nothing New in the West) is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental trauma du ...
'', who persuades his students to go into a horrible and deadly war. Beside his film career, he also performed in 15 plays on
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between 1912 and 1927. Lucy died on December 15, 1945, in Los Angeles, California, aged 80.


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lucy, Arnold 1865 births 1945 deaths English male stage actors People from Tottenham English male film actors 20th-century English male actors British expatriate male actors in the United States