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Dateline: 5th June, 2011
Miriam Karlin (1925 - 2011) Actress Miriam Karlin has died of cancer just three weeks before her 86th birthday. She was diagnosed in 2006 while filming a TV version of the Agatha Christie Miss Marple story By the Pricking of My Thumbs. She is probably best known to the public for playing shop steward Paddy in the The Rag Trade (1961 - 1963) but she had a long stage career which included the RSC and West End musical Fiddler on the Roof at Her Majesty' with Topol and in Fings Ain't Wot They Used T' Be at the Theatre Royal Stratford East and the Garrick. She trained at RADA and first appeared on stage professionally with ENSA in Harry Delf's comedy The Family Upstairs in 1943, followed by work in rep. She made her London debut in Saroyan's The Time of Your Life at the Lyric Hammersmith and in Separate Rooms at the Strand. Her stage career included touring as Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe, playing the lead in Mother Courage at Watford Palace, Mistress Quickly in the two parts of Shakespeare's Henry IV at the Barbican, Mother in Pirandello's Tonight We Improvise at Chichester, both Mme Dubonnet and then as Mme Arkadina in The Seagull at Leicester and Judith Bliss in Hay Fever. Her final stage appearance was in 2008, when she appeared, at the age of 83, in Many Roads to Paradise by Stewart Permutt at the Finborough. Film included Room at the Top (1959), The Entertainer (1960), The Deep Blue Sea (1955), Ladies Who Do and The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963), Heavens Above and The Bargee (1964), A Clockwork Orange (1971) and Ken Russell's Mahler (2974). Her last film was Children Of Men (2006). She was awarded the OBE in 1975.
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