RIP Warren Mitchell, aka Alf Garnett.

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RIP Warren Mitchell, aka Alf Garnett.

Postby Magellan » Mon Nov 16, 2015 8:37 am

Sad news for those who grew up watching British television in the 70s and 80s. For those who didn't but saw 'Kingswood Country", Garnett was the character who inspired Ted Bulpitt (IMHO).

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/alf-garnett-star-warren-mitchell-dies-20151116-gkznqc.html

British actor Warren Mitchell, best known for starring as Alf Garnett, has died aged 89.

"Sadly we can confirm Warren Mitchell died in the early hours of Saturday November 14 surrounded by his family," a statement from the Till Death Us Do Part star's family says.

"He has been in poor health for some time but was cracking jokes to the last."

Warren Mitchell, who is best remembered as Alf Garnett from Til Death Do Us Part, has died aged 89.

Despite playing the loud-mouthed, chauvinistic, homophobic, sexist, racist Garnett, Mitchell was in reality a left-wing socialist, the antithesis of the character he immortalised.

Even 40 years after this successful and racy BBC sitcom was running, Mitchell continued to be stopped in the street by people who really thought he was the working-class, anti-Semitic Tory bigot he portrayed, even though he himself was Jewish.

The British public warmed to Alf Garnett, probably because he could be identified with the kind of reactionary and prejudiced figure found all over the country.

Sometimes the satire of the show was lost because people regarded Garnett as a loveable old rogue whose views were quite acceptable.

Even so, he once admitted he was "a bit" like Alf Garnett himself.

"Opinionated male chauvinistic pig at times, I suppose. As my wife Connie once said to me, 'You are like that awful Alf Garnett, only he's funny and you're not'."

Warren Mitchell was born Warren Misell in Stoke Newington, north London, on January 14 1926. He served in the Royal Air Force and completed his navigator training just as the war ended.

He had been reading physics at University College, Oxford, but quit that before completing the course, and became a professional actor in 1951 after two years at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

But his big break did not come until 1965 - 14 years after he became a professional actor - with the role of Alf Garnett in a Comedy Playhouse play, which developed into the TV series.

Although Mitchell is identified almost exclusively with Alf Garnett, he played a wide variety of roles during his career. Other TV appearances came in Lovejoy, Waking The Dead, Kavanagh QC and Gormenghast.
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Re: RIP Warren Mitchell, aka Alf Garnett.

Postby Pseudo » Mon Nov 16, 2015 11:30 am

Didn't he emigrate down here at some point?

In his honour I shall address Mrs. Pseudo as "ya silly moo" tonight.
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Re: RIP Warren Mitchell, aka Alf Garnett.

Postby Magellan » Mon Nov 16, 2015 11:47 am

Pseudo wrote:In his honour I shall address Mrs. Pseudo as "ya silly moo" tonight.

Give your local catholic church a spray while you're at it. ;)
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