Ian Carmichael
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Ian Gillett Carmichael was an English actor who worked prolifically on stage, screen and radio in a career that spanned seventy years. Born in Kingston upon Hull, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, he t
Carmichael in Private's Progress (1956)
Bromsgrove School
Frankie Howerd, whom Carmichael auditioned and thought "very gauche ... too undisciplined and not very funny either"
Carmichael and Jill Adams in Private's Progress (1956)
Lord Peter Wimsey
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Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey is the fictional protagonist in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers, and their continuation by Jill Paton Walsh. A dilettante who solves
Ian Carmichael
…Television, for which he received mostly positive reviews, including from Wodehouse. In the early 1970s he played another upper-class literary character, Lord Peter Wimsey, the amateur but talented investigator created by Dorothy L. Sayers. Much of Carmichael's success came through a disciplined approach to training and…
1926 Daimler Double-Six Saloon
Illuminated incipit of the Divine Comedy in the Bibliothèque nationale de France copy of the 1481 edition