Charge your glasses and bow your heads
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The lovely, lovely Ian Carmichael has died at the age of 89.
My Dad raised us on the classic Boulting Brothers comedies in which he made his name: Brothers In Law, School For Scoundrels, Private's Progress and I'm Alright Jack. He played Jim Dixon of Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim, as well as Bertie Wooster and Lord Peter Wimsey for the BBC (in addition to which, his readings of the Wodehouse and Sayers books are absolutely excellent). In his later years he appeared in Wives and Daughters and The Royal.
It's hard to imagine a more quintessentially English actor and I shall miss him rather a lot.
Absolute comic genius: getting utterly pwned by Terry-Thomas at tennis in School for Scoundrels:
The lovely, lovely Ian Carmichael has died at the age of 89.
My Dad raised us on the classic Boulting Brothers comedies in which he made his name: Brothers In Law, School For Scoundrels, Private's Progress and I'm Alright Jack. He played Jim Dixon of Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim, as well as Bertie Wooster and Lord Peter Wimsey for the BBC (in addition to which, his readings of the Wodehouse and Sayers books are absolutely excellent). In his later years he appeared in Wives and Daughters and The Royal.
It's hard to imagine a more quintessentially English actor and I shall miss him rather a lot.
Absolute comic genius: getting utterly pwned by Terry-Thomas at tennis in School for Scoundrels:
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