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.
