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Biography

Early life

Mitchell was born Warren Misel in Stoke Newington, London. He is of Russian Jewish descent^[1], but typically describes himself as an atheist in interviews.^[2] Mitchell was interested in acting from an early age, and attended the Gladys Gordon's Academy of Dramatic Arts in Walthamstow from the age of seven. He did well at school and read physical chemistry at University College, Oxford. There he met his contemporary Richard Burton, and together they joined the RAF in 1944. Mitchell completed his navigator training just as the war ended^[3]. , Note: For an area with a similar name, see Newington, in the London Borough of Southwark. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... For other uses, see Jew (disambiguation). ... For information about the band, see Atheist (band). ... Walthamstow is a town in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, north east London, England. ... College name University College Collegium Magnae Aulae Universitatis Named after Established 1249 Sister College Trinity Hall Master Lord Butler of Brockwell JCR President Peter Surr Undergraduates 420 MCR President Monte MacDiarmid Graduates 144 Homepage Boatclub Crest of University College, Oxford University College (in full, the The Master and Fellows of... This article is about the 20th-century actor. ... The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air force branch of the British Armed Forces. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

Career

Richard Burton's description of the acting profession had convinced him that it would be better than completing his physics degree and so Mitchell attended RADA for two years, performing in the evening with the Unity Theatre. After a short stint, as a DJ on Radio Luxembourg, in 1951, Mitchell became a versatile professional actor with straight and comedy roles on stage, radio, film and television. His first broadcast was as a regular on the radio show Educating Archie, and this lead to appearances on Hancock's Half Hour. By the late fifties, he regularly appeared on television: as Sean Connery's trainer in boxing drama Requiem for a Heavyweight(1957), with Charlie Drake in the sitcom Drake's Progress (BBC, 1957) and a title role in Three 'Tough' Guys (ITV, 1957), in which he played a bungling criminal. He also appeared in many ITC drama series, for ITV: William Tell, The Four Just Men, Sir Francis Drake, The Avengers, Danger Man and as a recurrent guest in The Saint^[3]. Richard Burton CBE (November 10, 1925 – August 5, 1984) was a Welsh actor. ... RADAs theatre in London The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in Bloomsbury, London, is generally regarded as the most prestigious drama school in the world. ... The Unity Theatre was a theatre club based in a former chapel in Goldington Street, near St Pancras, in the London Borough of Camden. ... Radio Luxembourg (1933-1992, 2005-)was an important forerunner of pirate radio and modern commercial radio in Europe. ... Educating Archie A BBC Light Programme Comedy Programme in the early 1950s which was broadcast on Sunday lunchtimes. ... Hancocks Half Hour was a famous BBC radio comedy series of the 1950s starring Tony Hancock. ... Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930) is an Academy Award-winning Scottish actor and producer who is perhaps best known as the first actor to portray James Bond in cinema, starring in seven Bond films. ... Charlie Drake (born Charles Edward Springall, on 19 June 1925, in South London) is an English comedian, actor, writer and singer. ... Statue of William Tell and his Son in Altdorf, Switzerland (Richard Kissling, 1895). ... The Four Just Men was a 1959 Sapphire Films production for ITC Entertainment. ... Sir Francis Drake, c. ... The Avengers is a British 1960s television series featuring secret agents in a fantasy 1960s Britain. ... This article is about the 1960s TV series which was also known as Secret Agent and shouldnt be confused with the 1990s television series Secret Agent Man. ... The Saint refers to the fictional character created by Leslie Charteris in one of the following contexts: Simon Templar, the character also known as The Saint (main article on this topic) The Saint (TV series), a TV series that ran from 1962 to 1969, starring Roger Moore as Simon Templar. ...

His cinema début came in 1957, with Guy Hamilton's Manuela, and he began a career of minor roles as sinister foreign agents, assisted by his premature baldness and facility with eastern European accents. He appeared in The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone (José Quintero, 1961), and Help! (Richard Lester, 1965) and played leads in All The Way Up (James MacTaggart, 1970), The Chain (Jack Gold, 1984), The Dunera Boys (Ben Lewin, 1985) and Foreign Body (Ronald Neame, 1986)^[3]. Guy Hamilton (born September 16, 1922, Paris, France) was a noted film director. ... The Roman Spring of Mrs. ... José Benjamin Quintero, born (October 15, 1924, Panama City, Panama - February 26, 1999, New York, USA) was a theatre director and teacher, best known for his interpretations of the works of Eugene ONeill. ... Help! is a 1965 film starring the The Beatles and featuring Leo McKern, Eleanor Bron, Victor Spinetti, John Bluthal and Roy Kinnear. ... Richard Lester (born January 19, 1932 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a UK based film director famous for his work with The Beatles. ... The Chain is a British comedy drama film first released in 1984. ... British Director, part of the British Realist Tradition that followed Free Cinema. ... Ronald Neame is a British film cinematographer, producer, screenwriter, and director. ...

In 1965, he was cast as Alf Garnett in a play for the BBC Comedy Playhouse series, broadcast on 22 July 1965. This was the pilot edition of the long running series Till Death Us Do Part with Gretchen Franklin, Una Stubbs and Anthony Booth (now Tony Blair's father-in-law). The part of Mum played by Gretchen Franklin was taken by Dandy Nichols when the programme was commissioned as a series. Mitchell may be best known for his role as the bigoted Cockney West Ham United F.C. supporter, Alf Garnett, but ironically, his real life persona is quite the opposite, being a left-winger, Jewish, and a staunch supporter of Tottenham Hotspur F.C.. The show ran from 1966 to 1975, in seven series, making a total of 53 30-minute episodes^[4]. Alf Garnett was a fictional character on the BBC television sitcom Till Death Us Do Part, the ITV sitcom Till Death. ... Comedy Playhouse was an occasional BBC television anthology series of the 1960s and early 1970s, consisting of one-off plays with the potential to be turned into regular sitcoms. ... is the 203rd day of the year (204th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the BBC TV series. ... Gretchen Franklin as Ethel Skinner in EastEnders Gretchen Franklin (July 7, 1911 – July 11, 2005) was an English actress. ... Una Stubbs (born 1 May 1937 in Leicester) is an English actress and former dancer. ... Tony Booth Antony George Booth (born October 9, 1931 in Liverpool, better known as Tony Booth) is an English actor, best known for his role in the BBC series Til Death Us Do Part. ... For other people of the same name, see Tony Blair (disambiguation) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born May 6, 1953)[1] is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, Leader of the Labour Party, and Member of Parliament for the constituency... Gretchen Franklin as Ethel Skinner in EastEnders Gretchen Franklin (July 7, 1911 – July 11, 2005) was an English actress. ... Dandy Nichols (May 21, 1907 – February 6, 1986) was an actress most noted for her role as Else Garnett, the long-suffering wife of the racially bigoted and misogynistic character Alf Garnett in the BBC sitcom Till Death Us Do Part. ... West Ham United Football Club is an English football club based in West Ham, London Borough of Newham, and have played their home matches at the 35,146 capacity Boleyn Ground stadium since 1904. ... Alf Garnett was a fictional character on the BBC television sitcom Till Death Us Do Part, the ITV sitcom Till Death. ... For other uses, see Jew (disambiguation). ... Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is an English professional football club which plays in the Premier League. ...

He has a long and distinguished career on stage and television. Other small screen roles include performances in Lovejoy, Waking the Dead, Kavanagh QC, The Merchant of Venice (BBC, 1980) and Gormenghast. There are other articles with similar names; see Lovejoy (disambiguation). ... Waking the Dead is a BBC TV programme following the work of a special police team who investigate cold cases; usually murders that took place a number of years ago that were never solved. ... Kavanagh QC is a British television series made by Carlton Television for ITV between 1995 and 2001. ... Portia and Shylock (1835) by Thomas Sully The Merchant of Venice is one of William Shakespeares best-known plays, written sometime between 1596 and 1598. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ...

On stage he received extensive critical acclaim for his performances in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Harold Pinter's The Caretaker at the National Theatre; and Pinter's The Homecoming and Miller's The Price in the West End: In 2007 appearing in 'Visiting Mr Green' by Jeff Barron. Arthur Bob Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist. ... Cover to the Penguin Group edition. ... Harold Pinter, CH, CBE (born 10 October 1930) is an English playwright, screenwriter, poet, actor, director, author, and political activist. ... The Caretaker is a play by the Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter, first published in 1959. ... Several countries have a National Theatre. ... The Homecoming is a play by Harold Pinter, first published in 1965. ... West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre in London, England, or sometimes more specifically for shows staged in the large theatres of Londons Theatreland. Along with New Yorks Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre...

Even after the cancellation of the Alf Garnett sequel series In Sickness And In Health, Mitchell still played him on a number of occasions. ITV aired a series of mini episodes called A Word With Alf featuring Alf and his friends. When Johnny Speight died in 1998, the series was cancelled at the request of Mitchell saying he no longer wanted to play Alf now that Speight was dead. In Sickness and in Health was a BBC television sitcom sequel to the highly successful Til Death Us Do Part. ... Johnny Speight (June 2, 1920 - July 5, 1998), was a TV scriptwriter of many classic British sitcoms. ...

Awards

Warren was voted TV Actor of the Year in 1965, for his portrayal of Alf Garnett, in Til Death Do Us Part'. For his 2003 performance in The Price, he was awarded the 2004 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role, and also nominated for a London Evening Standard Award for Best Actor. In 1982, he received an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, for the film, Norman Loves Rose. The Laurence Olivier Awards, previously known as The Society of West End Theatre Awards, were renamed in honour of British actor Laurence Olivier, Baron Olivier in 1984, having first been established in 1976. ... The Evening Standard is a newspaper published in London. ... The Australian Film Institute (AFI), established in 1958, is an organisation that promotes Australian film and television through the annual AFI Awards, a membership program and AFI film events throughout the year. ...

Personal life

Mitchell suffered a stroke in August 2004 but was back on stage a week later performing in Arthur Miller's The Price, a two-hour play that featured four actors. Mitchell is a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association. Arthur Bob Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist. ... Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist and author. ... The British Humanist Association is an organisation of the United Kingdom which promotes Humanism. ...

He has been married since 1950 to Connie, they have one daughter, also called Connie. Warren is a naturalised citizen of Australia.

For over twenty years, Mitchell has suffered pain from nerve damage, caused by a virus, and is a supporter of the Neuropathy Trust^[5].

Footnotes

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External links

• Warren Mitchell at the Internet Movie Database