He played Alex Myer in ITV's The Trouble with Maggie Cole[1] and Snowy Fleet, in the ABC television series Friday On My Mind.
[3] McBain began his career in the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre of Scotland's production of Dunsinane by David Greig.
[4] In 2017, McBain played Gordon 'Snowy' Fleet in ABC's television series Friday On My Mind, which tells the story of Australian rock band The Easybeats,[5] before joining the cast of Rupert Goold's film Judy.
[7] In October 2024, it was announced that McBain would be joining David Dawson and Ralph Little in a film adaptation of Antonis Samarakis' 1965 novel The Flaw[8].
Arthur McBain's first children's book, In The Dead Of The Night, Illustrated by Tom Knight, was released in 2019.