1970: WARREN MITCHELL on life at OXFORD | Nationwide | Comedy Icons

1970: WARREN MITCHELL on life at OXFORD | Nationwide | Comedy Icons | BBC Archive

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@hilaryepstein6013 Ай бұрын

A delightful tribute to a much respected actor. You can almost feel his regret at his lost youth and wanting to be back at Oxford again.

@alexdavies7394 Ай бұрын

Or loss of hair! 😅😅 By the way, no offence intended regarding your comment.

@hilaryepstein6013 Ай бұрын

@@alexdavies7394 No problem!

@PhilUKNet Ай бұрын

Great stuff, BBC Archive! The company car documentary was hilarious, and this little insight into Warren Mitchell's time at Oxford was fascinating. It's a shame no one makes TV like this anymore, but at least we have archives. More, please!

@jamesgale2147 Ай бұрын

Absolutely one of the best insights into a man's soul I have ever encountered. Alf Garnet for all his rich hilarity fades beside the real Warren Mitchell. Especially the last longing remarks, what you least expect to find behind the facade is the revelation of his first and greatest love { I am sure family apart}.

@cunninglinguist-hu1dz Ай бұрын

It's hard to believe he and Alf Garnett were the same person. It really shows how good an actor he was.

@andyhall7032 Ай бұрын

no he's acting here....he actually sounded like alf garnett.

@youchwb6005 Ай бұрын

His pronunciation of the word "QANTAS" was "QANTARSE".🤣🤣🤣

@frankshailes3205 Ай бұрын

A precise and observant actor, his early performances in The Avengers (e.g. "The Golden Fleece") were often the best in the whole production. theavengers.tv/forever/gale2-11.htm

@frankshailes3205 Ай бұрын

I think he had a last-minute casting (to replace an incapacitated alcoholic actor) as Sean Connery's trainer in boxing drama Requiem for a Heavyweight (1957), learning the part extremely quickly with very little to no rehearsal. Very capable.

@bettebleu6065 Ай бұрын

Did you miss where he came from, why are you surprised?

@andydixon2980 Ай бұрын

Memories of one's youth grow richer as time passes. Everything yet to be discovered and experienced.

@ultimatemagic2125 Ай бұрын

Mainly women.

@therealyogibear2k225 Ай бұрын

R.I.P Alf Garnet. In sickness and in health we miss you mate.

@tonyhancock3912 Ай бұрын

Absolutely marvellous piece

@geoffclarke3796 Ай бұрын

A great actor, so different in real life to the Alf Garnett character he played so well. I had no idea he went to Oxford.

@bestbehave Ай бұрын

I don’t know why ts k this came up in my feed, but I’m so glad it did

@kevrussell5972 Ай бұрын

Same as

@PatJenningsGloves Ай бұрын

Great upload, 1970 all them young blokes in the clip have an air of Nick Drake about them .The 60s had ended, The Beatles had broke up.But Warren looks pretty dapper here, and it was always a pleasure when he would be interviewed on tv over the years and I very much enjoyed his reminiscing here.

@lukemccrohon5152 Ай бұрын

I’m from Oxford lived here 44 years and I used to love living here but over the last 10 years I hardly recognise the place anymore.. sad times

@RogueCylon Ай бұрын

What’s happened? I moved to the US, but used to love visiting Oxford. Not been there in 15 years.

@kaitlyn__L Ай бұрын

@@RogueCylon I lived there for a while in the 00s and I noticed in some people's recent videos that the large Botley Road (if I recall the name right, I was never great with names) and the entire area running up to Osney Island and the train station have been massively built-up with student housing. It was already getting a bit full of dubious self-store warehouses and shopping centres when I left, but now it was indeed nearly unrecognisable with how much more built-up it was - I didn't even notice the video _was_ on that street until I spotted a few key junctions.

@ultimatemagic2125 Ай бұрын

The same can be said for the entirety of England I fear. Immigrants everywhere.

@SuperMookles Ай бұрын

Hey look, a tedious old racist. @ultimatemagic2125

@tressel2489 Ай бұрын

@@ultimatemagic2125 The shopping centres and business parks in Oxford weren't built by immigrants mate. On the other hand, Oxford has long history of immigration; when this video was filmed in 1970, tens of thousands of immigrants had already been working for decades at the Morris plant in Cowley. The problems of poverty and neglect that plagued the periphery of Oxford were already felt then, despite the immigrants at that time largely being English. Since the 70s there's been more diversity, the carnival started in the 80s, and the cultural diversity of Cowley makes it a great place to live despite the poverty. I miss it a lot

@postscript67 Ай бұрын

The BBC in the 1970s seemed to be good at these personal, reflective, poignant reminiscences. I remember the former foreign correspondent James Cameron producing whole documentaries in similar vein. Wonderful.

@csr7080 Ай бұрын

That last sentence - I agree...

@Mudge07 Ай бұрын

I knew Warren was a world apart from his notorious character, Alf. His Oxford education, until now, was a surprise. Together with this return to his alma mater, it’s interesting and a gentle reminder of how class may shape perceptions of self and others.

@anjke Ай бұрын

Wonderful. Made me smile. I miss Oxford.

@dg-hughes Ай бұрын

I like how in the painting of Lord Beveridge he had a beverage next to him.

@shiraqin Ай бұрын

I noticed that immediately!

@josephasghar Ай бұрын

He has a wonderful way with words - a combination of Harold Pinter and Bob Hoskins. I wonder what he would make of Alf Garnet’s world view gaining ascendancy in today’s Britain.

@stevedickson5853 Ай бұрын

Love it when Alf Garnett is screaming to get out of him lol

@mockbattles Ай бұрын

Love Warren Mitchell. An underrated talent.

@stephenasbridge878 Ай бұрын

We all miss you, Warren.

@eireaontaithe5760 Ай бұрын

Oxford graduate and brilliant actor. True Labour man also.

@rob-fb5xs Ай бұрын

When I first started watching this video i felt a bit stupid because I’d thought it was going to be the Warren Mitchell from Alf Garnet. Then half way through I realised it was 🤣

@mcvicarross7 Ай бұрын

The old 'Alf Garnett' just simmering underneath!! 😂😂

@bettebleu6065 Ай бұрын

What a lovely chap, Respect!

@peterharvey1762 Ай бұрын

Ver y down to earth and humble man , polar opposite to Alf Garnet

@lequimper Ай бұрын

It’s interesting that he did a 6 month short course in physical chemistry at Oxford then left and went to RADA instead of completing a full degree. Seems to have worked out rather well for him!

@cityzens634 Ай бұрын

He was sent there by the RAF on a 6 month course not a 3 year degree.

@markwakeman-f8z Ай бұрын

Warren had such a beautiful speaking voice in real life.

@minifuzz5 Ай бұрын

Lovely.

@asa1973100 Ай бұрын

Warren Mitchell came from an extremely middle-class family. He grew up in a very lovely middle-class home so where he gets ordinary middle class background… I don’t call a six bedroom childhood home ordinary

@stupidhandles Ай бұрын

What you think 6 bedrooms = aristocracy?

@ilikethisnamebetter Ай бұрын

Well, he didn't quite say that it was ordinary, he said it was "ordinary middle-class". Then (to a lesser extent now, because of the influence of American English), "middle-class" would have implied quite well-off.

@heinkle1 Ай бұрын

But don’t forget that most at Oxford at the time wouldn’t have been ordinary middle class but pretty well-to-do

@MrBlaxjax Ай бұрын

@@heinkle1middle class is a broad church. I mean Napoleon, most Harley street consultants, top flight barristers and captains of industry are all middle class. That’s because you don’t get promoted to the aristocracy if you do well in your career. In the USA there’s a tendency to refer to people who earn a median wage as being middle class. But that’s not really true. Also hard working tradesmen could earn enough to live in a large house and definitely earn more than most ‘middle class’ people. But they are not typically middle class. Originally there was no real middle class. You just had various shades of peasantry and servants, and the upper class that owned and controlled everything. The middle class is a relatively new invention. And it’s mostly not in the middle at all. Socio-economically it’s mainly the A’s and B’s. Typically professionals and managers.

@powerbite92 Ай бұрын

@@ilikethisnamebetter He was a liar. The whole point of the Archie Bunker/Alf Garnett character was for rich lefties to punch down on poor whites and claim that they were the problem - not the government actions they were complaining about. He was a Champagne Socialist snob who absolutely hated ordinary British people that he considered beneath him. Read the comments on Social media and all the little people who worked with him said he was a haughty stuck up snob who thought that he was 10X better than people who were helping him. Interesting that he spends all his time here pretending that everyone else is a snob and at the same time (rich or poor) they're all so stupid and beneath him - the poor (yet somehow incredibly full of himself) victim..

@garethluvsthetruth6782 Ай бұрын

very good, wanted to hear more

@swaneknoctic9555 Ай бұрын

He is only 44 here. Easy pass for 53.

@LaepsynPaepsyn Ай бұрын

That's how it was back then - people looked older at a younger age compared to the 2020s, and life expectancy has increased quite a bit since the 1970s. But I suppose you knew that already :)

@swaneknoctic9555 Ай бұрын

I did, but always nice to be reminded :)

@stephenhaskins5736 Ай бұрын

Balding makes you look older.

@nottmjas Ай бұрын

@@stephenhaskins5736Prince William is the same age Warren was back when this footage filmed, and he looks considerably younger.

@robertcahill1528 Ай бұрын

Great stuff alf ❤

@jonnyhuckerby2194 Ай бұрын

A League of Gentleman's Apocalypse style biopic of Alf Garnett coming throoooough into our world to meet Warren Mitchell is long overdue.

@RolandoRatas Ай бұрын

00:32 I bet his name was 'Marigold' !

@Charlotte66666 Ай бұрын

Great reference 😂

@frederickanderson1860 Ай бұрын

Universities encourage debating skills. And many we're influenced by books intellectual kind. Especially for spy's.

@76ToneCrome Ай бұрын

"An awful shortage of birds." That came out of nowhere.

@JJONNYREPP Ай бұрын

1970: WARREN MITCHELL on life at OXFORD | Nationwide | Comedy Icons | BBC Archive 21.11.24 0951am 'kin didn't. there's a shortage now. where the hell have they gone... is it still rationed? life just deals me blow after blow... and, obviously, it aches. life, i mean...

@RSEFX Ай бұрын

And...he helped the Earth survive the Trollenberg Terror! ---That's what I know him best for here in the US.

@jillyb9995 Ай бұрын

So interesting to listen to Warren remembering what it was like to enter those hallowed halls. Let's hope the class discrimination he talked about has now been addressed and booted out.

@heinkle1 Ай бұрын

No - today it’s more likely he would be yelled at or harassed by students in kaftans because of his religion

@Steveholmes1972 Ай бұрын

Good luck with that 🤣

@boundsgreenboy8354 Ай бұрын

Alan's snackbar no doubt 😆

@user-ve3gh5xg9q Ай бұрын

Good days

@toucheturtle3840 Ай бұрын

A Spurs fan. Saw him at White Hart Lane. Tottenham v Man City back in the early 90’s. I’m a Gooner but went along with my Scum supporting friend to watch a game of footy.

@clydegatell7015 Ай бұрын

COYS!!!!!!

@toucheturtle3840 Ай бұрын

@ 🤣

@EvanJohn-z2d Ай бұрын

'coming from a very Ordinary Jewish middle-class background' says Mysle/Mitchell - ' whats bloody ordinary about that? Look at you, sitting there in all your bloody Oxford pomp and glory' says Alf

@Johnconno Ай бұрын

He hasn't got a Cockney accent.😢 Neither did Pinter.

@williamneumyer7147 Ай бұрын

I knew a very nice Vietnamese woman who had a blouse like the one he's wearing.

@hankybostik7634 Ай бұрын

Happy for you luv!

@benowen3399 Ай бұрын

city of dreaming spires

@phillipcarter8045 Ай бұрын

City of immigrants .

@nickwyatt9498 Ай бұрын

City of perspiring dreams is the usual pun.

@boundsgreenboy8354 Ай бұрын

Now Alan's snackbars

@admiralbenbow5083 Ай бұрын

Down by the river on a damp freezing morning still half asleep, then thrashing yourself to breaking point for 2 hours and you cant even see where you are going !! NO WAY You must feel pretty good when its over, but give me rugby training at 11am every day of the week instead of one sculling session.

@Mark-td5ux Ай бұрын

Eton Harrow Oxford Cambridge the ruling class of Britain...

@QuoPaperPlane Ай бұрын

He's definitely wearing the clobber of those years. No grandad collar and braces!

@2511dhall Ай бұрын

Sounds better than Alf but he was the opposite of Alf like Archie Bunker.

@davidlee6720 Ай бұрын

she called him Mister Garnett -not so clever then ! Easily done I suppose.

@ilikethisnamebetter Ай бұрын

I'm pretty sure that was staged.

@ShubhamBhushanCC Ай бұрын

Ah the dreaming spires. It's a dream for me

@paulgibbons2320 Ай бұрын

I was just wondering if he was going to get misty eyed about the satanic rituals and secret societies, and it cuts to offering 51% of his soul to get back in. 😂

@evolassunglasses4673 Ай бұрын

I didn't know he was a radical Left Jewish person.

@peterrayment5826 Ай бұрын

Followed by yet another anecdote about his sensitive crimes in a punt with a chap called Norman who had red hair and a poetry book stained with the butter drips from crumpets.

@christophermartin7927 Ай бұрын

Obviously a Withnalian...uncle Monty!!

@T4TipsGuides Ай бұрын

Indeed, I often wonder where Norman is now. Probably wintering with his mother in Guilford, a cat, rain, vim under the sink, and both bars on. But old now, there is no true beauty without decay.

@christophermartin7927 Ай бұрын

@@T4TipsGuides legium pro britannia

@T4TipsGuides Ай бұрын

@@christophermartin7927 How right you are, how right you are.