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British actress and singer (born 1932)
Warren Mitchell was a renowned British actor best known for playing the bigoted cockney character Alf Garnett in various TV, film, and stage productions from the 1960s to the 1990s. He was a multi-award-winning performer, having won BAFTA and Laurence Olivier awards throughout his illustrious career.
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Warren Mitchellwas a British actor, best known for playing bigoted cockney Alf Garnett in television, film and stage productions from the 1960s to the 1990s. He was a BAFTA TV Award winner and twice a Laurence Olivier Award winner.
In the 1950s, Mitchell appeared on the radio programmes Educating Archie and Hancock’s Half Hour. He also performed minor roles in several films. In the 1960s, he rose to prominence in the role of Alf Garnett in the BBC television sitcom Till Death Us Do Partand In Sickness and in Healthand The Alf Garnett Sagaand Norman Loves Rose (1982). He held both British and Australian citizenship and enjoyed considerable success in stage performances in both countries, winning Olivier Awards in 1979 for Death of a Salesman and in 2004 for The Price.
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Warren Mitchell was a British actor, best known for playing the role of the bigoted cockney Alf Garnett in television, film and stage productions from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Warren Mitchell’s most famous role was playing the character of Alf Garnett, the bigoted cockney, in the TV sitcom ‘Till Death Us Do Part’ and its subsequent sequels and films.
Warren Mitchell was a BAFTA TV Award winner and twice a Laurence Olivier Award winner for his stage performances, including for his roles in ‘Death of a Salesman’ and ‘The Price’.
In addition to his iconic role as Alf Garnett, Warren Mitchell also appeared in various films such as ‘Three Crooked Men’, ‘Carry On Cleo’, ‘The Spy Who Came In from the Cold’, and ‘The Assassination Bureau’.
Warren Mitchell was born Warren Misell on January 14, 1926 in London, UK.
Warren Mitchell passed away on November 14, 2015, at the age of 89.
In the 1950s, Warren Mitchell appeared on the radio programs ‘Educating Archie’ and ‘Hancock’s Half Hour’, and also performed minor roles in several films.
4 Quotes by Warren Mitchell
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I enjoy being Jewish, but I’m an atheist… I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.
Warren MitchellEnglish actor (1926-2015)
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Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.
Warren MitchellEnglish actor (1926-2015)
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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
Warren MitchellEnglish actor (1926-2015)
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I knew that I did not have to buy into society’s notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my “spaceship” and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.
Warren MitchellEnglish actor (1926-2015)