Arthur Tulloch Nightingale was born in 1931 in London (Greenwich) in the UK. He quit school at fourteen to go to work. At the age of 42, he enrolled in the East 15 Acting School in Loughton, Essex, UK (before its merger with the University of Essex). He has appeared in numerous television and movie productions including "Tinker, Tailor Soldier Spy" (2011). He was in an especially well-received television commercial in 2015 for the Edeka, the German supermarket chain, entitled "Heimkommen" ("Homecoming").