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Dateline: 7th February, 2010
Ian Carmichael (1920 - 2010) The actor Ian Carmichael has died at the age of 89. He died peacefully at his Esk Valley home on the North York Moors on Saturday 5th February. Born in Hull, he trained at RADA He made his professional stage debut in 1939 and then joined the 22nd Dragoons (Royal Armoured Corps). His film career began in the fifties and his first film, in 1948, was Bond Street which starred Jean Kent, Kathleen Harrison and Derek Farr. After this he appeared in six more films between 1949 and 1952 before playing in Betrayed (1954) alongside Clark Gable and Lana Turner and in The Colditz Story (1955). His big successes, however, were a series of comedies he made from 1956 onwards with the Boulting Brothers, including Private's Progress (1956), Lucky Jim and Brothers in Law (both 1957), and I'm Alright Jack (1959). Although he continued to make films until 1989 - his last was Diamond Skulls, which starred Gabriel Byrne, Amanda Donohoe and Struan Rodger - he moved into television in the sixties. His best known early TV work was The World of Wooster (1965 - 1967) in which he played Bertie Wooster, opposite Dennis Price as Jeeves, and, from 1973 to 1983, he played Lord Peter Wimsey on radio and TV. His most recent television work was playing Hospital Secretary T.J. Middleditch in the series The Royal. He received the OBE in the 2003 Birthday Honours List.
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