Harold Bennett - Wikipedia Harold Bennett For other people named Harold Bennett, see Harold Bennett ( disambiguation ). Harold Bennett Bennett as Young Mr Grace in Are You Being Served ? Harold Frank Bennett ( 1899 - 09 - 17 ) 17 September 1899 Hastings, Sussex, England 15 September 1981 ( 1981 - 09 - 15 ) ( aged 81 ) London, England Years active 1956 -- 1981 Spouse ( s ) Unknown Children Harold Bennett ( 17 September 1899 -- 15 September 1981 ) was an English actor best remembered for having played ' Young Mr. Grace ' in the 1970s British sitcom Are You Being Served ?. Contents 1 Biography 2 Acting career 3 Television Roles 4 Selected filmography 5 External links Biography Bennett was born in Hastings, Sussex. After leaving school at the age of twelve, in his early life he toured America as a clown with a circus, and later taught English at the Working Men 's College in London. During World War I he served as a courier, initially on horseback, then on motorcycle. After the war he took up acting and eventually worked as stage producer in the now defunct Tower Theatre, London. He subsequently pursued a career as a draughtsman for an electric company, only taking up his acting career again following retirement. Harold Bennett died of a heart attack on 15 September 1981, two days before his 82nd birthday. His wife predeceased him in the Thirties ; he was survived by their three children. One of his children, John, was also an actor. Acting career He played the recurring character Mr. ( Sidney ) Bluett in Dad 's Army from 1969 to 1977, but it was as Young Mr. Grace, the ancient, amiably callous owner of Grace Brothers department store in British sitcom Are You Being Served ? that he achieved his greatest fame. His last appearance in Are You Being Served aired some three months after his death, having been filmed earlier in the year. Bennett also played the role of the aged Archdeacon Pulteney in The Stalls of Barchester, the 1971 BBC A Ghost Story for Christmas broadcast 24 December 1971 and adapted from the M.R. James story of the same name. Bennett appeared in several films, including an old man in Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton ( 1965 ), a photographer in Games That Lovers Play ( 1970 ) and as Lord Tryke in The Ups and Downs of a Handyman ( 1975 ). On the stage, he appeared in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of London Assurance, and in an Open University production of Chekhov 's The Three Sisters. Television Roles Year Title Role Notes 1971 Whacko Mr Dinwiddie 1971 The Stalls of Barchester Archdeacon Pulteney 1976 -- 1977 Clayhanger Mr Shushions 1969 -- 1977 Dad 's Army Mr Bluett 1972 -- 1981 Are You Being Served ? Young Mr Grace ( final television appearance ) 1980 Oh Happy Band Reverend Selected filmography The Sky Bike ( 1967 ) -- Old Man Games That Lovers Play ( 1971 ) -- Old photographer Au Pair Girls ( 1972 ) -- Lord Tryke The Ups and Downs of a Handyman ( 1976 ) -- Gasper Jesus of Nazareth ( 1977 ) -- Elder ( uncredited ) Are You Being Served ? ( 1977 ) -- Young Mr. Grace External links Harold Bennett on IMDb This article about an English television actor or actress is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harold_Bennett&oldid=793355656 '' Categories : 1899 births 1981 deaths English male film actors English male television actors People from Hastings Male actors from Sussex English architects British military personnel of World War I 20th - century English male actors English television actor stubs Hidden categories : Use dmy dates from May 2017 Pages using infobox person with unknown parameters Pages to import images to Wikidata Articles with hCards All stub articles Talk Contents About Wikipedia Nederlands Polski Edit links This page was last edited on 1 August 2017, at 07 : 31. About Wikipedia

Question: who played mr grace in are you being served
Answer: Harold Bennett