Talk:Warren Mitchell

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Australia?

No mention in the article of any links to Australia. Removing until something is added, with references. 86.17.247.135 01:52, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Gay?

Removing category until cited. -- Delsource (talk) 16:42, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Physics or Physical Chemistry degree

The article has Mitchell starting a Physical Chemistry degree then giving up a Physics degree; which was he actually studying towards?

Apepper 20:46, 2 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Battle of the River Plate

Does anyone have any information about his appearance in The Battle of the River Plate? There are a lot of uncredited people in there so it's not impossible. But what is the source for this story? -- SteveCrook (talk) 15:20, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"God, Fred, Shiva or whoever"

I have removed the attribution that Mitchell "...sometimes believes in God." The cited interview includes the passage

Anyway, there he was in Australia, paralysed from the waist down. "I lay in hospital and looked up at the ceiling and said, ‘If there’s anybody up there, God, Fred, Shiva or whoever, if you let me walk again, I promise -’ and I thought I had to make some kind of votive sacrifice - ‘I will never smoke another cigarette.’ I did walk again, and it was easy to give up smoking. I couldn’t break that vow." Why not, if there is no God? "Why indeed? I don’t really know." Perhaps he believes more than he admits. "Maybe. I don’t know. I’ve never really gone into it in depth. I am too busy living..."

Clearly it is the interviewer, not Mitchell, who surmises "perhaps he believes more than he admits". Maybe there are complexities which might warrant a separate section about personal beliefs—which appear to be lifelong, not relevant merely to "early life"—but there is nothing in this citation to justify "sometimes believes in God". Mitchell terms himself categorically as an atheist. It is, of course, in his nature to make ironical observations about his own life and beliefs. Bjenks (talk) 01:29, 24 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Mitchell in The Main Attraction 1983

I watched this episode on ITV in 1983 when it was shown. It could be that An Audience with... temporarily changed its title to The Main Attraction during the mid-80s because the format was identical. I remember one of the jokes - Mitchell, quoting God, said "I don't do miracles, I leave that to my son". Dickie birdie (talk) 18:39, 18 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

An Audience with Alf Garnett was a completely different show. Made in the mid-90s. --143.252.80.100 (talk) 17:51, 28 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No it didn't. An Audience with... was always called just that.--Doris Kami (talk) 13:14, 29 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Alumni of University College, Oxford

Is it right to list him as an alumnus of University College, Oxford when he was only there for six months and didn't graduate? --Doris Kami (talk) 13:15, 29 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No, it isn't. I've updated this objection. See below. Hanoi Road (talk) 21:47, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Rank?

What rank did he hold in the RAF? DavidFarmbrough (talk) 12:02, 13 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Alma Mater

University College, Oxford should probably be removed. Mitchell went there for just six short months as part of a course for military cadets, which was routine RAF.ans Army procedure at the time. No degrees or diplomas were conferred for these courses. Richard Burton was there also (Exeter College) and though his entry makes mention of this, it is not listed as an 'Alma Mater'. To describe it as such seems somewhat grandiose, if not Jeffrey Archer-ish in its misling of the reader at first glance. Hanoi Road (talk) 11:57, 7 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]