Granville (Open All Hours) his uncle who is a practical man (and a miser), Granville is a carefree man, yet is treated as if he is still a child. Its never officially revealed how old Granville actually is in the original series, but in series 2, Arkwright does mention a Duke visiting the area in 1949, 9 months before Granville was born, making him around 33 in the 1981 series. By the time of "Still Open All Hours", Arkwright has long died and Granville has inherited the shop as promised by Arkwright, and has a young son, Leroy. Despite their radically different personalities and
Harley Granville-Barker Harley Granville-Barker Harley Granville-Barker (25 November 1877 – 31 August 1946) was an English actor, director, playwright, manager, critic, and theorist. After early success as an actor in the plays of George Bernard Shaw he increasingly turned to directing and was a major figure in British theatre in the Edwardian and inter-war periods. As a writer his plays, which tackled difficult and controversial subject matter, met with a mixed reception during his lifetime but have continued to receive attention. Harley Granville-Barker was born in London, England on 25 November 1877. He left school at 14 and began a career in