Warren Mitchell RIP

[subcontrabass]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34820371

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/nov/14/warren-mitchell-dies-aged-89-alf-garnett

[Bryn]

So sorry to read of his passing. I only met him once, at a John White concert at the old BMIC venue in Stratford Place. A most charming and affable gent. Very fond memories of his Shylock.

[Tevot]

[subcontrabass]

BBC obituary here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27046865

[french frank]

Good headline: 'Alf Garnett and much more'.

[Petrushka]

The film version of 'Till Death...' wasn't up to the standard of the TV series but there is one gloriously funny moment which has Alf Garnett in the outside privy when the air raid siren goes. He hurriedly tears off a sheet of newspaper and finds the next sheet has a picture of Hitler on it. Mitchell's face at this point was unforgettable. It was the only point in the entire otherwise dull film when the cinema audience roared with laughter.

[cloughie]

The film version of 'Till Death...' wasn't up to the standard of the TV series but there is one gloriously funny moment which has Alf Garnett in the outside privy when the air raid siren goes. He hurriedly tears off a sheet of newspaper and finds the next sheet has a picture of Hitler on it. Mitchell's face at this point was unforgettable. It was the only point in the entire otherwise dull film when the cinema audience roared with laughter.

Unfortunately now it is literally ...death do us part. A great actor RIP Warren.

[gradus]

I hope that the BBC summons enough courage to show a Till Death episode as a tribute.

[Ferretfancy]

I hope that the BBC summons enough courage to show a Till Death episode as a tribute.

It would have been a film telerecording back then, and unfortunately many of them were victims of a major cull back in the eighties when a lot of valuable material was lost. I hope this hasn't happened to Till Death, but when clips are shown on nostalgia programmes they are always the same ones, so I'm not hopeful.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

It would have been a film telerecording back then, and unfortunately many of them were victims of a major cull back in the eighties when a lot of valuable material was lost. I hope this hasn't happened to Till Death, but when clips are shown on nostalgia programmes they are always the same ones, so I'm not hopeful.

There are boxed sets of the complete series from 1972 and 1974 available, so I presume complete episodes are available for showing.

[gurnemanz]

We saw him three times - all memorable. I've just checked the programmes:

the famous 1979 Death of a Salesman at the National was a sellout and we queued for returned tickets
1995 Lear at Hackney Empire (a young Toby Jones as his Fool, I note)
2004 Arthur Miller again, The Price, Oxford. He was quite frail. We happened to see him being helped down the road before the production, on the very short walk from the Randolph Hotel to the Playhouse.