Career
Raised in Ilford, Essex, Argent served as a navigator during World World War II with 84 Squadron, but his plane was shot down and he was held as a Japanese prisoner-of-war at Osaka"s Prisoner Of War Camp #4 Ikuno. Following a career as an actor, he had a small role in, Argent became a floor manager with the British Broadcasting Corporation later gravitating to work as a director In this role he supervised early episodes of Till Death Us Do Participant (1965).
His last work for the British Broadcasting Corporation before his official retirement from the corporation was the second series of Fawlty Towers (1979).
Subsequently he worked for Independent Television and Channel 4.
