Arthur Margetson (27 April 1887 – 13 August 1951) was a British stage and film actor and radio broadcaster. He was also a composer of music and lyrics, and an impersonator of performers such as Harry Weldon.
Margetson was elected to The Lambs in 1941 as a Professional Member.
Arthur Charles Margetson was born in Marylebone, the younger son of Edward John Margetson, a composer, and Marion Stocqueler Wardroper. Arthur was a pupil at the Royal Masonic School for Boys. He worked as a clerk before going on stage. His earliest performances were “Theodore and Co.” (1917) at the Prince’s, Edinburgh, “Telling the Tale at the Ambassador’s” (1918), and “Duets” (1919) at the Chiswick Empire. He had more than 50 stage credits.
Margetson had an almost 35-year stage and screen career. He was a regular on Broadway after 1929 and in Hollywood from 1940. In movies, he was known for “Juggernaut” (1936), “Sherlock Holmes Faces Death” (1943) and “A Clown Must Laugh” (1936).
Margetson was known for his many wives, and was married four times:
*Rosamond Bertram Ifould (née Hobson) in 1923. They were divorced in London in 1925;
*Vera Alys Lennox, at the Savoy Chapel on 28 June 1926. She divorced him in London in 1932;
*Actress Shirley Grey (born Agnes Evangeline Zetterstrand), at Caxton Hall Register Office in 1936;
*Barbara Joyce Wood, a former model, in New York in 1948.
He died of cancer in London, age 54.