Douglas George Charles Argent (21 May 1921 – 30 October 2010) was an English television producer and director.
Born in Bexleyheath, Kent and raised in Ilford, Essex, Argent's parents ran an ironmongers shop.
[1] He served as a navigator during World War II with 84 Squadron, but his plane was shot down and he was held as a Japanese prisoner-of-war[2][3] at Osaka's POW Camp #4 Ikuno.
During the next decade, he was the producer of The Liver Birds during the period 1972 to 1976[1] and the final series of Steptoe and Son (1974).
His last work for the BBC before his official retirement from the corporation was the second series of Fawlty Towers (1979).