So Farewell then Ian Carmichael

[threebikesmcginty]

Ian Carmichel has died aged 89 - He was a fine actor, not many could play a twit so well.

Clip from the classic film 'School for Scoundrels' - the tennis match with Terry-Thomas. Hard cheese!!


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkfT7p6kBE0&feature=related


And a bit of getting his own back, from the same film.


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgN9KpbyICo&feature=related

 

[accountantpete]

Not a bad line up was it? Alastair Sim, Dennis Price,Peter Jones, T-T and IC.

 

[zimzum42]

One of the greats, that's for sure.

Am slowly building up a collection of DVDs of all those kinds of films, Launder and Gilliat, that kind of thing, cos I am sure the time will come when they stop showing those kind of films on TV and it'll all be Pop Idol stuff...

 

[rich p]

A gent.

 

[Saddle bum]

His characters were always so very amusing.

Very sad. RIP.

 

[Crankarm]

I liked him up against socialist agitator Kite - Peter Sellers in I'm Alright Jack. The bit where as the new naive trusting bloke wanting to work hard he completed the fork lift task for the time and motion chaps 4x faster than the Union lags and caused a general strike. Inspired naivety.

Yup his like are dropping like flies. Wonder who will be next? Peter O'Toole, Ian McKellern, Michael Gambon, Leslie Phillips all still going I hope.

Clint Eastwood was on Steve Wright R2 on friday apparently. Missed it, but he's getting on a bit now, Clint that is, not the berk Steve Wright.

 

[Slowgrind]

A Classic!

 

[Hilldodger]

Was it him who said he always changed his shoes at 6PM because it simply wasn't done to wear brown shoes at dinner?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Was it him who said he always changed his shoes at 6PM because it simply wasn't done to wear brown shoes at dinner?

He did a stint as Bertie Wooster with Dennis Price as Jeeves.
A chap wouldn't wear brown shoes with a dinner suit.


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMiGOV3eQzk

 

[ASC1951]

I liked him up against socialist agitator Kite - Peter Sellers in I'm Alright Jack.

Yes, that's my memory of him as well, especially the shot where he plucks some pallets out on his forklift and reveals the foreman and three other playing cards.

If like me you lived in the West Midlands when I'm Alright, Jack came out, it was rather more than a gentle satire.