This is Your Life (UK)

Warren Mitchell (13x4)

: 06, 1972

Warren Mitchell, actor, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the City Lit Institute in London, while playing the saxophone. Warren studied physical chemistry at University College, Oxford, where he met his contemporary, Richard Burton, and together they joined the Royal Air Force in 1944. After the war Warren attended RADA for two years, performing in the evening with London's Unity Theatre, and he soon became established as a versatile professional actor with straight and comedy roles on stage, radio, film and television. In the 1960s, he rose to prominence in the role of bigoted cockney Alf Garnett in the BBC television sitcom Till Death Us Do Part, created by Johnny Speight - a role which won him a Best Television Actor BAFTA in 1967.