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Title: Alf Garnett
Post by: kevin3 on November 14, 2015, 13:37:56 PM

  RIP actor Warren Mitchell who died today aged  89.  A fine actor and what a character he created in Alf.

Title: Re: Alf Garnett
Post by: Jacqui Harvey on November 14, 2015, 14:11:54 PM

Indeed very sad.  A great actor.  R.I.P. Warren.

Title: Re: Alf Garnett
Post by: philrose on November 14, 2015, 15:27:57 PM

Sad loss of a great actor. He was so much more than Alf Garnett...........

Title: Re: Alf Garnett
Post by: usedbustickets on November 14, 2015, 22:50:16 PM

Very sad news.  Alf Garnett will go down as one the great characters of the post war years, Johhny Speight wrote it and Warren Mitchell got it straight away and played the role superbly.  Over the years I have seen Warren Mitchell in three plays and he was without doubt a great, and undervalued, actor.  The last time I saw him he was, as I recall, in his eighties, never missed a line or a mark, and his american accent  never slipped right through the production .. A tour de force.  And his politics was none to shabby either, shame the same could not be said about his football team. And as a leading Humanist I am sure that he will be glad that he will not be 'resting in peace' but will have earned a place in our collective hearts.

Title: Re: Alf Garnett
Post by: yabanci on November 15, 2015, 10:10:51 AM

Quote from: usedbustickets on November 14, 2015, 22:50:16 PM

  Over the years I have seen Warren Mitchell in three plays and he was without doubt a great, and undervalued, actor.

Didn't realise he had won 2 Oliver Theatre Awards for his stage performances in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and The Price.