| Author: | Robert Fairclough | ISBN: | 9781845137380 |
| Publisher: | Aurum Press | Publication: | September 22, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Robert Fairclough |
| ISBN: | 9781845137380 |
| Publisher: | Aurum Press |
| Publication: | September 22, 2011 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
The first life of the man who was Lord Peter Wimsey, Bertie Wooster and starred in I’ m Alright, Jack!
With the death of Ian Carmichael in 2010 one of the last links was lost with the golden age of British cinema. Carmichael starred alongside Terry-Thomas and Peter Sellers in the Boulting brothers’ classic satirical comedies I’ m Alright, Jack! Private’ s Progress and School for Scoundrels. He summed up, on screen and in life, the kind of Englishman who was beginning to emerge after the war – educated, not necessarily upper class, upwardly mobile and a study in good manners and a sense of fair play – and thus played the straight-man foil to the distracted ravings of his wilder co-stars.
Subsequently, he became Bertie Wooster in a highly successful television series based on P.G. Wodehouse’ s Jeeves stories. He also made the part of Lord Peter Wimsey his own in another long-running adaptation of Dorothy L. Sayers’ famous detective novels, and was still acting on television well into his eighties alongside Susan Hampshire in ITV’ s drama series The Royal.
The first life of the man who was Lord Peter Wimsey, Bertie Wooster and starred in I’ m Alright, Jack!
With the death of Ian Carmichael in 2010 one of the last links was lost with the golden age of British cinema. Carmichael starred alongside Terry-Thomas and Peter Sellers in the Boulting brothers’ classic satirical comedies I’ m Alright, Jack! Private’ s Progress and School for Scoundrels. He summed up, on screen and in life, the kind of Englishman who was beginning to emerge after the war – educated, not necessarily upper class, upwardly mobile and a study in good manners and a sense of fair play – and thus played the straight-man foil to the distracted ravings of his wilder co-stars.
Subsequently, he became Bertie Wooster in a highly successful television series based on P.G. Wodehouse’ s Jeeves stories. He also made the part of Lord Peter Wimsey his own in another long-running adaptation of Dorothy L. Sayers’ famous detective novels, and was still acting on television well into his eighties alongside Susan Hampshire in ITV’ s drama series The Royal.
