Johnnie Cullen (12 July 1868 – 16 July 1929) and Arthur Carthy (21 Jan 1869 – 18 December 1943), known as Cullen and Carthy, were a British comedy double act who achieved popularity on the British and Irish music hall, circus and variety stages over a career spanning a period of four decades, beginning in the latter part of the Victorian age to the post-war years of the 1920's.

[13] Cullen played a version of the traditional clown, dishevelled and downtrodden—in this case an early precursor of Charlie Chaplin's Tramp persona—while Carthy performed the role of the Harlequinade in upper class attire of top hat and morning dress.

They achieved a career breakthrough when they performed as Clown and Pantaloon in Red Riding Hood[20] at Bristol's Theatre Royal (1894)[21][22] where they were immediately re-engaged to return for the following pantomime season in Dick Whittington (1895).

In 1913 they appeared twice-nightly onstage in The Forty Thieves at the 3,000 seater Grand Opera House in Middlesbrough, making a sensational entrance on the back of an enormous camel.

In 1919, Cullen and Carthy appeared at the Lyceum Theatre in the Strand for a season of Dick Whittington with George Bass, Mabel Lait, Daley Cooper and Edith Drayson.

[26] For three years beginning in 1923, Cullen and Carthy toured the United Kingdom and Ireland in Wheel 'Em In, a nostalgia show featuring a bill of top-line performers from the heyday of Northern Music Hall.

[27] His descendants include his son—a comedy performer and producer named Johnny Cullen (died 16 December 1958),[28] a niece named Jessie "Jeannie" Bradbury (1917—1967) — a BBC radio singer married to Welsh bandleader Harry Parry, a great-nephew George Roper (1934—2003) who achieved national recognition as a stand-up comedian on British television during the 1970s and 1980s, and a son of the latter, Matt Roper (1977—) achieving note as a theatre and variety performer, today living in New York City.