{"id":40258,"date":"2015-11-15T19:07:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T08:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=40258"},"modified":"2015-11-15T19:07:46","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T08:37:46","slug":"vale-warren-mitchell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2015\/11\/15\/vale-warren-mitchell\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale &#8211; Warren Mitchell"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_40259\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40259\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-40259\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/p01hgjkw-720x405.jpg\" alt=\"Warren Mitchell - 1926-2015\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/p01hgjkw-720x405.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/p01hgjkw-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/p01hgjkw.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40259\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Warren Mitchell &#8211; 1926-2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">British BAFTA-winning actor Warren Mitchell has passed away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Mitchell (born Warren Misell) first appeared in the British acting scene with role on prominent radio productions during the 50&#8217;s, before transitioning into television during the 60&#8217;s. Acclaim came with his BAFTA-winning role in <em>&#8216;Till Death Do Us Part<\/em>, a sitcom in which he played the iconic role of a bigoted Alf Garnett, which would lead to a television sequel and eventually films and recurring specials. His first film appearance was 1957&#8217;s <em>Manuela<\/em>, then continued with film and television until his passing. Other film roles included 1960&#8217;s <em>The Boy Who Stole A Million<\/em>, <em>Carry On Cleo<\/em> (1964), <em>The Spy Who Came In From The Cold<\/em> (1965), <em>The Assassination Bureau<\/em> (1969), <em>Innocent Bystanders<\/em> (1972), <em>Jabberwocky<\/em> (1977), <em>Norman loves Rose<\/em> (1982, for which he received an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Supporting Actor), <em>Waterfront<\/em> (1984) and <em>Crackers<\/em> (1998).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His television credits include the miniseries <em>Men of Affairs, The Sweeney, Waking The Dead<\/em> and <em>Gormenghast<\/em>. Mr Mitchell twice received an Olivier Award for his work on the stage, for roles in <em>Death Of A Salesman<\/em>, and <em>The Price<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Mitchell passed away on November 14, aged 89.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40260\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/warren-mitchell-03.jpg\" alt=\"warren-mitchell-03\" width=\"312\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/warren-mitchell-03.jpg 312w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/warren-mitchell-03-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British BAFTA-winning actor Warren Mitchell has passed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":40261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/brodny.jpg",500,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/brodny-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/brodny-300x240.jpg",300,240,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/brodny.jpg",500,400,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/brodny.jpg",500,400,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/brodny.jpg",500,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/brodny.jpg",500,400,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/brodny.jpg",500,400,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/brodny.jpg",425,340,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/brodny.jpg",24,19,false],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/brodny.jpg",48,38,false],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/brodny.jpg",96,77,false],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/brodny.jpg",150,120,false],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/brodny.jpg",300,240,false],"sow-carousel-default":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/brodny.jpg",228,182,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/category\/film-general\/obituary\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Obituary<\/a>","tag_info":"Obituary","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}