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Ian Carmichael, OBE (18 June 1920 – 5 February 2010) was an Englishfilm, stage, television and radioactor.

Early life

Carmichael was born in Hull, Yorkshire. The son of an optician, he was educated at Scarborough College and Bromsgrove School, before training as an actor at RADA. He made his stage debut as a robot at the People's Palace in Mile End, East London in 1939.

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With the outbreak of World War II his acting career was interrupted by service with the Royal Armoured Corps, as a commissioned officer in the 22nd Dragoons.

Career

The young actor had turned his back on his family's shopkeeping business in Hull to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and to sing in talent contests at the Hammersmith Palais de Danse.

He portrayed serious characters in Betrayed (1954), starring Clark Gable and Lana Turner, and in The Colditz Story (1955), but he mad