Biography

Arthur Christiansen was born on July 27, 1904 in Wallasey, Merseyside, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961), Deadline Midnight (1960) and 80,000 Suspects (1963). He was married to Brenda Shepherd Christiansen. He died on September 27, 1963.

He played the chief editor of the "Daily Express" newspaper in The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961) - a job from which he had recently retired in real life.

During his life, he was described as the greatest editor in the history of London's Fleet Street. This may have been due to his exhorting his reporters: "Always, always tell the news through people." It must have been effective advice, because during his reign over The Daily Express, the paper's circulation increased from well under 2 million to well over over 4 million subscribers.

He collapsed and died at a television studio in Norwich, England, during rehearsal for a programme he had designed in which current local news would be reported from a country pub.