biography
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| lived:
| (1926– )
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| biography:
| Actor, born in London, UK. After studying at Oxford, he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London, and made his first appearance at the Finsbury Park Open Air Theatre in 1950. He won great acclaim for his interpretation of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman at the National Theatre in 1979. He is most widely known for playing the character of Alf Garnett, a garrulous, foul-mouthed, right-wing Cockney, in the BBC television series Till Death Us Do Part (1966–78). A spin-off stage show, The Thoughts of Chairman Alf, starring Mitchell, opened at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, in 1976, and the character returned in a further television series, In Sickness and In Health (1985–6), which was repeated in 1993. Later BBC television appearances include Wall of Silence (1995), Death of a Salesman (1996), and Gormenghast (2000). |
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