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Warren Mitchell, (born 14 January 1926, Stoke Newington, London) is a British-born actor with Australian citizenship.
Better known for his role when a bigoted cockney West Ham supporter, Alf Garnett, Warren Mitchell has a long & distingushed career in stage & television. Ironically, his realistic personthe is quite a opposite, that of a Jewish, Tottenham supporter. Mitchell joined a RAF in company with his contemporary Richard Burton in 1944 and completed his expert training videos even as a war ended.
Mitchell got been reading natural philosophy at University College, Oxford. Richard Burton's description of the acting profession convinced him that it would exist as better than completing his physical science degree then Mitchell attended RADA for two years. Inside 1951, Mitchell became the office actor however his large break did non occur until 1965 with the role of Alf Garnett around the Comedy Playhouse play. This was a 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 better 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 extremely versatile actor. He received extensive critical plaudits for his performances inside 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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