Warren MITCHELL (1926-2015)

Warren Mitchell This Is Your Life

programme details...

  • Edition No: 338
  • Subject No: 339
  • Broadcast date: Wed 6 Dec 1972
  • Broadcast time: 7.00-7.30pm
  • Recorded: Wed 25 Oct 1972
  • Venue: Euston Road Studios
  • Series: 13
  • Edition: 4

on the guest list...

  • Connie - wife
  • Daniel - son
  • Rebecca - daughter
  • Anna - daughter
  • Betty - sister
  • Monty - father
  • Celia - stepmother
  • Ernest Maxin
  • Norman Shires
  • Teddy Waltham
  • Richard Burton - live link
  • Arnold Diamond
  • David Young
  • Cyril Saxon
  • Alan Tilvern
  • Albert 'Ginger' Marriott
  • Alfie Bass
  • Johnny Speight - in audience
  • Dennis Main Wilson - in audience
  • Gaylord Cavallaro

production team...

  • names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life
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Roy Bottomley This Is Your Life book

Scriptwriter Roy Bottomley recalls this edition of This Is Your Life in his book, This Is Your Life: The Story of Television's Famous Big Red Book...


Did we get a surprise when actor Warren Mitchell went into his Alf Garnett character on seeing his old friend Richard Burton on our live link to Germany!


Our line on the link went down on us - for more than an hour. We got urgent calls from Germany to tell us that Richard was whiling away the time by making inroads into a case of vodka.


When the technical problems were sorted out that famous face appeared on our big screen to greet the 'Til Death Us Do Part' star.


But by now that smooth, rich voice had been well lubricated.


'Hello, my old friend,' slurred he.


Warren Mitchell scrutinised him carefully and summed up in finest Alf Garnett tones: 'You're pissed.'

Malcolm Morris biography

Producer Malcolm Morris recalls this edition of This Is Your Life in his book, This Is My Life...


Mothers are very important to This Is Your Life. When the Red Book was shown to Warren Mitchell, Warren, who is not shy, said in character, 'Bloody hell, I would tell you to sod off but I know my mother will love it.' [Bigredbook.info editor: What he actually said was: 'It'll be the greatest night of my father's life'.]


That wasn't the only problem with Warren's programme.


As luck would have it, we had a major technical breakdown which delayed the recording of the programme by an hour and a half. Booked live onto a special line from Munich was Richard Burton, a great pal of Warren's. When the time arrived, we went over to Munich and the waiting Richard Burton.


Warren was surprised and then looked more closely at the incoming television feed. 'You're pissed,' he said to Richard.


'So would you be, you old fart, if you had been stuck for an hour and a half waiting for this damned show.'


So much for the dialogue of the luvvies.

Series 13 subjects

Pat Phoenix | Bill Griffiths | Shirley Bassey | Warren Mitchell | Dudley Moore | Phyllis Calvert | Larry Grayson | Clive Sullivan
Bill Shankly | Willie Carson | Jack Smethurst | Mary Peters | Noele Gordon | James Corrigan | Pat Reid | Diana Coupland
Dulcie Gray | Janet Adams | Rita Hunter | Leslie Crowther | Jimmy Logan | Spike Milligan | Jackie Pallo
John Gregson | Jackie Charlton | Francis O'Leary