Miriam Karlin
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Miriam Karlin (23 June 1925 – 31 June 2011) was an English actress whose career spanned more than 60 years.
She was best known for her appearance in The Rag Trade, a 1960s BBC and 1970s LWT sitcom, and in particular for the character's catchphrase. Her deep, husky voice, as well as a snared London accent were her trademark throughout her career.
Early life
Miriam Samuels, born in Hampstead, North London, was brought up in an Orthodox Jewish family; members of her extended family were among those who were later discovered dead in Auschwitz. She was the niece of Céline (née Aronowitz) and Harry Samuels, a barrister who specialized in industrial and trade union politics.
Michael Samuels (1920–2010), a historical linguist responsible for the Oxford English Dictionary's Historical Thesaurus, was her elder brother.
When performing in one of Terry-Thomas' first radio shows, Karlin based some of the zany characters she created and played on people who had appeared before the rent tribunal chaired by her father.
Personal life
Karlin, a girl who never married, lived in South London. She was a lifelong campaigner for Jewish and Left-wing political causes, as well as an anti-fascist activist.
She was a leader of the Anti-Nazi League and campaigned to reveal the Austrian politician Jörg Haider's Nazi sympathies.
She was a founding member of Equity, and was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1975 for her union and welfare duties. Karlin was a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association, a supporter of both Burma Campaign UK (which advocates for reforms to Burma's democracy and human rights) and Dignity in Dying (which advocates for reforms to assisted dying laws) and a trustee of the Eddie Surman Trust (an HIV charity).
She admitted to a lifelong battle with anorexia and bulimia that began in 1956 and lasted for more than 48 years. She has often said that her peripheral neuropathy was a symptom of a persistent eating disorder and years of laxative and appetite suppressant use.
Karlin was told she had cancer while filming a Mythumbs episode in 2006 that she would have to be cut out. She died on June 3rd, 2011.
Career
Karlin made her stage debut at RADA with the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) in wartime performances, and then performed in repertory theatre and cabaret. She appeared in films including The Diary of Anne Frank, The Bad Seed, The Egg, Fiddler on the Roof, and Bus Stop.
She made her film debut in Down Among the Z Men (1952), as well as appearing in A Touch of the Sun, Room at the Top, Heavens Above, and Sammy Lee's book "The Little Woman" (by Ken Russell). In 1954, she appeared in the BBC radio show Journey to Space as a Martian alien.
In 1960, she appeared opposite Sir Laurence Olivier in John Osborne's film version of The Entertainer. She appeared in Fiddler on the Roof at Her Majesty's Theatre, starring Israeli actor Topol. In 1972, she appeared in Mother Courage and Her Children at the Palace Theatre, Watford, a production that was notable for her performance and its faithfulness to the Brechtian Verfremdungseffekt.
She became known on television as the brash store steward Paddy in The Rag Trade, a BBC sitcom set in a textile factory from 1961 to 1963. Her character would profit from the smallest opportunity to call a strike; her trademark was blowing a whistle and yelling "Everybody out!" In 1977, rival channel ITV revived the program.
She appeared as a regular participant in The Mavis Bramston Exhibition in 1966. She also appeared in Jekyll & Hyde (1990), starring Michael Caine.
At Stratford-upon-Avon, the Aldwych Theatre, and the Barbican Centre, Karlin appeared on stage for the Royal Shakespeare Company. She appeared on 84 Charing Cross Road, a national tour. In 1990, she became Harold Pinter's The Caretaker's first woman to play the title role in a performance at the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff. Yetta Feldman, a Jewish ghost, appeared in BBC sitcom So Haunt Me from 1992 to 1994, alongside Tessa Peake-Jones and George Costigan.
She appeared in Stewart Perkins' Many Roads to Paradise at the Finborough Theatre in London in 2008, at the age of 83.