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Ian Carmichael

Ian Carmichael

Ian Carmichael OBE is an English film, stage, television and radio actor. He was born in Hull, Yorkshire. His father was an optician and he was educated at Scarborough College and Bromsgrove School, before training as an actor at RADA. He made his stage debut, but with the outbreak of the Second World War his acting career was interrupted by military service in Europe with the Royal Armoured Corps, as a commissioned officer in the 22nd Dragoons.

He portrayed serious characters in Betrayed (1954), starring Clark Gable and Lana Turner, and in The Colditz Story (1955), but he made his name playing the sheltered innocent in a world of crooks and shirkers in a series of classic films for the Boulting Brothers, including Private's Progress (1956), Brothers in Law (1957) and I'm All Right Jack (1959), as well as similar films for other producers, for example School for Scoundrels (1960). He also appeared in the Pride segment of The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins.

During the 1960s and 1970s, he enjoyed success in television, including the sitcom, Bachelor Father, based on the story of a real-life bachelor who took on several foster children. On television he enjoyed great popularity as Bertie Wooster, opposite Dennis Price as Jeeves, in several series of The World of Wooster, based on the works of P.G. Wodehouse. In later years, he was heard on BBC radio as Galahad Threepwood, another Wodehouse creation. In the 1970s, he memorably played Lord Peter Wimsey in several drama series based on the mystery novels by Dorothy L. Sayers. He appeared on television, notably in the ITV series, The Royal as the Hospital Secretary T.J. Middleditch (2003–2006). In 1999, he appeared in the BBC serial Wives and Daughters. He was appointed an OBE in the 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours List.


Note: This profile was written in or before 2008.

Ian Carmichael Facts

OccupationActor
BirthdayJune 18, 1920 (103)
SignGemini
BirthplaceHull, England, United Kingdom

Selected Filmography

American Girl: 4-Movie Collection
The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Complete Collection
Like a Penguin in the Air
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
Bless the Child
From Beyond the Grave
The Wind In the Willows
School For Scoundrels
Double Bunk
Storm Over The Nile
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