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Ian Gillett Carmichael, OBE (18 June 1920 – 5 February 2010) was an British actor who worked prolifically on stage, screen and radio in a career that spanned seventy years.

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Biography[edit]

Early life[edit]

Ian Gillet Carmichael was born on 18 June 1920 in Kingston upon Hull, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. He was the eldest child of Kate (née Gillett) and her husband Arthur Denholm Carmichael, an optician in a family firm of jewellers. Carmichael had two younger sisters, the twins Mary and Margaret, who were born in December 1923. Carmichael’s family was a prosperous one, and in his early years he has a “privileged, pampered existence” in a home that included maids and a cook, according to Robert Fairclough, his biographer. His infant education included one term at the local Froebel House School, but this was curtailed after his parents were shocked at the “alarmingly foul language he began bringing home”.

In 1928 Carmichael was sent to Scarborough College, prep school in North Yorkshire, which he attended between the ages of seven and thirteen. He did not like the spartan and authoritarian regime at the school. He described the discipline at the school as “Dickensian“, with corporal punishment used for even minor infringements of the rules; ablutions in the morning and evening were conducted with cold water—which often had a film of ice on the top during winter.

In 1933 Carmichael left Scarborough College and entered Bromsgrove School, a public school in Worcestershire.^[a] He soon established that “the new curriculum was not arduous”, which gave him the opportunity for focus on matters that were of more interest for him: acting, popular music and cricket. In the late 1930s Carmichael decided to go to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). His parents would have preferred he went into the family jewellery business, but accepted their son’s decision and supported him financially when he left Yorkshire for London in January 1939.

Early career and war service, 1939–1946[edit]

Carmichael enjoyed his time at RADA, including being outnumbered by women on his course by five to one, which he described as “heady stuff” after his boys-only boarding school. He remembered the time at RADA fondly in his 1979 autobiography, describing it as:

a period of unconfined joy, occasioned by my finally shaking off the shackles of school discipline and being able to mix daily with young men and young women who shared my interests and enthusiasms. This joy was, nevertheless, being tempered by the worsening European situation. The fear that now, just as I was standing on the threshold of a future that I had dreamed about for years, the whole thing might be snuffed out like a candle was too unbearable to contemplate.

During his second term Carmichael had his first professional acting role: as a robot in Karel Čapek‘s R.U.R. at the People’s Palace theatre, in Mile End, East London. He recalled the experience as “a dull play performed in a cold and uninspiring theatre and my particular contribution…