The Press Association: Veteran actor Ian Carmichael dies: "Veteran British actor Ian Carmichael has died at the age of 89, his wife said.
The star of large and small screen from the 1950s to the 1970s had fallen ill over Christmas and New Year, Kate Carmichael said.
He died peacefully at his home in the Esk Valley on the North York Moors.
Hull-born Carmichael made his name playing in a series of films for the Boulting Brothers including Private's Progress (1956), Brothers in Law (1957) and I'm All Right Jack (1959).
During the 1960s and 1970s, he was successful in television, particularly as Bertie Wooster in The World of Wooster and Lord Peter Wimsey in several drama series based on the mystery novels by Dorothy L Sayers."
Hat tip to Toby O'B.
5 comments:
I was born and raised in England in the 1960s and Ian Carmichael was a fixture of my youth, what with being THE Bertie Wooster (regardless of how good Hugh Laurie was later) and Lord Peter Wimsey.
He was the first Bertie I saw and the image stayed with me in subsequent reading of Wooster fiction. Still, 89 is a pretty good run.
BILL - love the new header. Great stuff!
Thanks, Rick. Obviously I have too much time on my hands.
Carmichael was and always will be the definitice Peter Wimsey. Every year or so, one or more of the tv adaptations comes off the shelf and are watched again with great pleasure. Folks may not know that, in addition to the five Sayers novels he starred in for tv (Clouds, Bellona, Tailors, Advertise, Herrings), he also played Wimsey in BBC radio adaptation of the Harriet Vane novels.
Art Scott
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