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Profile of Warren Mitchell
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14th January 1926 |
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London, England, UK |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia Warren Mitchell, (born 14 January 1926, Stoke Newington, London) is a British-born actor with Australian citizenship.
Best known for his role as the bigoted cockney West Ham supporter, Alf Garnett, Warren Mitchell has a long and distingushed career on stage and television. Ironically, his real life persona is quite the opposite, that of a Jewish, Tottenham supporter. Mitchell joined the RAF in company with his contemporary Richard Burton in 1944 and completed his training just as the war ended.
Mitchell had been reading physics at University College, Oxford. Richard Burton's description of the acting profession convinced him that it would be better than completing his physics degree and so Mitchell attended RADA for two years. In 1951, Mitchell became a professional actor but his big break did not occur until 1965 with the role of Alf Garnett in a Comedy Playhouse play. This was the pilot edition of the series Till Death Us Do Part with Dandy Nichols, Una Stubbs and Anthony Booth (now Tony Blair's father-in-law).
Because Warren Mitchell is best known for his character Alf Garnett, he is somewhat typecast in this role by the media. This overshadows the fact that he is considered a highly versatile actor. He received extensive critical acclaim for his performances in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman & Harold Pinter's The Caretaker at the National Theatre; and Pinter's The Homecoming & Miller's The Price in the West End.
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