Tom Arnold (actor)

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. As of 2004, Tom Arnold is the co-host of Fox Sports Net's talk show Best Damn Sports Show Period and he also provides the voice for Arby's "Oven Mitt" character in television commercials. He was in, amongst other radio credits, "Shadow Man" on Radio Luxembourg in 1955, "Destination - Fire!" on BBC (Early 1960s), General Sternwood in a BBC version of Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep" (1977), "Pay Any Price" (BBC 1982), "The Mystery of the Blue Train" (BBC 1985/1986), as Henry Hickslaughter in Elizabeth Troop's Sony Award winning adaptation of Graham Greene's short story "Cheap In August" (1993). Also in 1994, Arnold appeared as Arnold Schwarzenegger's sidekick in the James Cameron blockbuster True Lies. His movie credits include: Another Shore (1948), The Square Ring (1953), The Amorous Prawn (1962), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Where Eagles Dare (1968), The Pink Panther Strikes Again(1976) and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987). Arnold and Barr divorced in 1994. He was in Franco Zeffirelli's tv mini-series of "Jesus of Nazareth" and the American tv series of Ray Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles".

The couple's marriage attracted media and especially tabloid attention due to their sometimes outrageous behavior. He appeared in British television shows such as Dial 999, Doctor Who, Blake's 7, The Gathering Storm, The New Avengers, and Minder. On the set of the program, he met the show's star, Roseanne Barr, whom he later married. The series was made available to overseas broadcasters by the BBC Transcription Service. Tom Arnold was a writer who appeared regularly as the character "Arnie Thomas" in the popular television sitcom Roseanne (which went on the air in 1988). Other stories followed and were presented by BBC radio over the years from 1947 to 1961. He was born in Ottumwa, Iowa. The series debuted on BBC radio with the story "Lady in a Fog" in October 1947.

Tom Arnold (born March 6, 1959) is an American actor and comedian. Robert Beatty played Philip Odell, a fictional Irish detective created by Lester Powell. Robert Beatty (born 19 October 1909, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and died 3 March 1992, London, England, UK) was a Canadian actor who worked in radio, film and television for most of his career and was especially known in the United Kingdom.