Warren Mitchell

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Warren Mitchell (born Warren Misell, 1926-2015) was an English actor.

He was a winner of the BAFTA TV Awards twice and twice a Laurence Olivier Award winner. Mitchell appeared on radio programs Educating Archie and Hancock's Half Hour in the 1950s.

He has appeared in several films and appeared in minor roles.

He rose to prominence in the role of bigoted cockney Alf Garnett in the BBC television sitcom Till Death Us Do Part (1965–1975), which earned him the Best TV Actor BAFTA in 1967.

He starred in Till Death (2004), In Sickness and in Health (BBC, 1981–1992), and In the films Till Death We Do Part (1969) and The Alf Garnett Saga (1972).

Three Crooked Men (1958), Carry On Cleo (1964), The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1965), and Norman Loves Rose (1982) are two of his film appearances.

He held both British and Australian citizenship and enjoyed considerable success in stage appearances in both countries, winning Olivier Awards in 1979 for Death of a Salesman and 2004 for The Price.

Early life

Mitchell was born and raised in Stoke Newington, London. His father, a glass and china merchant, was a glass and china dealer. His family, who were actually branded "Misell" in Hebrew, were Russian Jews (originally surnamed "Misell").

He was interested in acting from an early age and attended Gladys Gordon's Academy of Dramatic Arts in Walthamstow from the age of seven. He did well at Southgate County School (now Southgate School), a state grammar school at Palmers Green, Middlesex, where he did well. He then took physical chemistry at University College, Oxford, as a Royal Air Force cadet student on a six-month university short course that the armed services sponsored for potential officers. Richard Burton, a friend of Richard Burton, joined the RAF in October 1944 and together they joined the army. He completed his navigator training in Canada just as the Second World War came.

Constance Wake (1928–2017), a film and television actress in Behind the Headlines (1956 film), Maigret (1960 television series), and others.

Personal life and death

Mitchell called himself an atheist in an interview, but he also said that being Jewish "enjoyed" being Jewish. He was a patron of the British Humanist Association. He married Constance Wake, an actress who appeared in early 1960s television dramas like Maigret, in 1951. They had three children, son Daniel, and daughters Rebecca and Anna, Rebecca and Anna.

Mitchell suffered from nerve damage caused by transverse myelitis for more than 20 years, and he was a supporter of the Neuropathy Trust. In August 2004, he had a mild stroke. A week later, he was back onstage, reprising his celebrated role as a cantankerous old Jew in Arthur Miller's The Price.

Mitchell died on November 14, 2015 at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, London, after a long illness.

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Career

Richard Burton's description of the acting career had convinced him that it would be more beneficial than completing his chemistry degree, and so Mitchell spent two years in RADA, performing in the evening with London's Unity Theatre. Mitchell came to fame as a DJ on Radio Luxembourg in 1951, and he has appeared on stage, radio, film, and television. His first appearance on the radio and television versions of Hancock's Half Hour was as a regular on the radio show Educating Archie, which culminated in appearances in both the radio and television versions of the show.

He appeared on television in the late 1950s as Sean Connery's coach in the boxing film Requiem for a Heavyweight (1957), alongside Charlie Drake in the sitcom Drake's Education (1956), and in Three 'Tough' Guys (ITV, 1957), in which he appeared as a bungling criminal. He has appeared in numerous episodes of Armchair Theatre. During the first of these, Underground (1958), one of the lead actors died during the live performance. In addition to many ITC drama series including William Tell, The Four Just Men, Sir Francis Drake, Danger Man, and as a recurring guest in The Saint, the actor appeared in the second episode of "The Latin Touch" in 1962 depicting an Italian taxi driver.

He began his cinema debut in Guy Hamilton's Manuela (1957) and embarked on a career of minor roles as sinister foreign agents, aided by his premature baldness and a theatre with Eastern European accents. Poor Mickey Gone appeared in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961), the Hammer Horror The Curse of the Werewolf (1961), Carry On Cleo (1964) Where Has Poor Mickey Gone?

(Gerry Levy, 1964), and Help!

(Richard Lester, 1965) and appeared in All the Way Up (Jack Gold, 1990) and The Foreign Body (Ronald Neame, 1986).

Mitchell appeared in 1965 as the Conservative-voting, bigoted cockney West Ham United supporter Alf Garnett in a play for the BBC Comedy Playhouse series, which was broadcast on July 22, 1965. This was the pilot version of the long-running series Till Death Us Do Part, starring Gretchen Franklin, Una Stubbs, and Anthony Booth. As the program was produced as a series, the part of Mum, portrayed by Franklin, was recast with Dandy Nichols in the role. Mitchell's true life personality was different from Alf Garnett's, who was born Jewish, Labour-voting, and a steadfast supporter of Tottenham Hotspur. The show ran from 1966 to 1975, in seven series, totaling 53 30-minute episodes. Although the series was intended to mock bigotry, it also gained the support of several bigoted ethnic groups who viewed Alf as "the voice of reason."

In the ATV series Till Death Us Do Part (1969) and The Alf Garnett Saga (1972), and in the BBC series In Sickness and in Health (1985–92), Mitchell reprised Alf Garnett. He reprised his role as Alf Garnett in 1983 in the television series The Main Attraction, where comedians recreated their famous performances from their past in front of a live and television audience (similar to An Audience with... that started in 1976). He appeared in An Audience with Alf Garnett in 1997. A Word With Alf, a series of mini-episodes starring Alf and his associates, premiered on ITV in the same year. Johnny Speight wrote both the TV shows and films. At Mitchell's behest, Speight's character was changed when he died in 1998.

Mitchell had a long and distinguished career in theater and television. Men of Affairs, a 13-episode series based on the West End, was featured on several small screen roles. Don't Just Lie There, Say Something! In 1975, Play for Today cast William Wardle, a crooked accountant in the episode "In The Merchant of Venice," he appeared in several episodes, including in the episode's "Moss," as Dote, the BBC's chief television for ITV, 1978). (BBC, 1978) and Gormenghast (BBC, 2000). In 1991, Ivan Fox, a Jewish atheist from Belfast who lives in Belfast, appeared in So You Think You've Got Trouble, a BBC One comedy series written by Maurice Gran and Laurence Marks.

In 2001, he appeared in "Potts in Pole Position," in a Christmas Special episode of Last of the Summer Wine.

When he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews, he was a participant of the television show This Is Your Life.

He received considerable critical acclaim for his role as Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (1979), being first staged by Stephen Barry at the National Theatre in Perth, Australia; Pinter's The Homecoming at the National Theatre (1991) and Miller's The Price at the Apollo Theatre (1993) and Miller's The Price (1991) at the National Theatre.

Mitchell performed in a number of musical roles throughout his career, beginning with the role of Theophile in the original London production of Can-Can and the small role of Crookfinger Jake in The Threepenny Opera. He appeared on the film Till Death Do Us Part, a recording of My Fair Lady, Music Hall Songs, songs of the First World War, and other Alf Garnett appearances such as The Writing's on the Wall, were also released in LP and 45rpm single form in Britain and Australia.

Mitchell was a retired dry-cleaner in Jeff Baron's portrait of Jewish-American life, aged 82, as a member of the Trafalgar Studios in London's West End. Visiting Mr. Green

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