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Cary Grant claimed to be a keen admirer of his, and made a point of watching his TV shows whenever he was in England.

Although he owned a Mercedes car when travelling around in London he often used the tube,.

His father was a baker,.

He became an entertainer while serving with the Royal Engineers during the war.

His ATV series, The Arthur Haynes Show (1956-66), networked on ITV, made Haynes the most popular comedian in Britain. There were 95 thirty-minute shows, 62 thirty-five-minute shows and one fifty-minute show, spread over fifteen series. The shows would also feature musical guests, such as the Springfields in 1963, Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen and the Rolling Stones in 1964, and Joe Brown and the Bruvvers and the Dave Clark Five in 1965.

Haynes died of a heart attack on 19 November 1966 in Ealing, at the age of 52, shortly after he returned from America, where he had appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, and just before the commencement of shooting for the 16th series of his ITV television series.

Arthur Haynes received the Variety Club's award as ITV Personality of 1961 and appeared on the Royal Variety Performance in the same year.

He started off in a number of odd jobs, doing painting (he was very proud of his painting in later years), plumbing and joinery until the Second World War broke out.

Haynes had a good singing voice, which he rarely used on TV, and in 1960 performed a sketch called The Haynes Brothers, where he and Dickie Valentine, wearing a moustache, sang together.

With Charlie Chester he was part of the British Army's concert party troupe Stars in Battledress.

In 1965, Haynes appeared in the Rock Hudson/Gina Lollobrigida film Strange Bedfellows.

Arthur Haynes was an English comedian and star of The Arthur Haynes Show, a comedy sketch series produced by ATV from 1956 until his death from a heart attack in 1966.

He continued to work with Charlie Chester after the war in the BBC Radio series Stand Easy (1946-49). Chester had not originally wanted to feature him as he had a full cast but once he heard Haynes give a high-pitched laugh, he knew he could use it and found a place for him. They became a double act in the show where Chester wrote the scripts.

Fellow comedian Charlie Chester related a story where they were waiting outside Caen and Haynes pointed to a trench full of mud and a million tiny frogs and said nothing would get him into that. Just then a German aircraft started firing near them and Haynes dived straight into the trench and afterwards emerged covered in mud and frogs.

In 1963 he recorded the novelty songs "Not To Worry" and "Looking Around".