Ian Carmichael

Born: 1920-06-18

Ian Gillett Carmichael, OBE (18 June 1920 – 5 February 2010)[1] was an English actor best known for his roles in the films of the Boulting brothers such as Private's Progress (1956) and I'm All Right Jack (1959). Later he played Dorothy L. Sayers's Gentleman Detective, Lord Peter Wimsey, on television and radio. Carmichael also had a career on stage.


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Brothers in Law

as Roger Thursby
Released: 1957-03-04

Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the...

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From Beyond the Grave

as Reginald Warren
Released: 1974-02-21

Four customers purchase (or take) items from Temptations Limited, an antiques shop whose motto...

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Dark Obsession

as Exeter
Released: 1990-06-08

Hugo Buckton seems to have it all: He is apparently rich and has a beautiful wife and a doting...

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Double Bunk

as Jack Goddard
Released: 1961-05-06

When newly weds Jack and Peggy face eviction, they are tricked into buying a run down houseboat....

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The Colditz Story

as Robin Cartwright
Released: 1955-01-25

Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an...

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The Lady Vanishes

as Caldicott
Released: 1979-04-30

On the eve of World War II, zany heiress Amanda Kelly travels by train to Switzerland. While...

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Betrayed

as Capt. Jackie Lawson
Released: 1954-09-07

Screen superstars Clark Gable ("Gone With The Wind," "It Happened One Night") and sultry...

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I'm All Right Jack

as Stanley Windrush
Released: 1959-08-18

Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business....

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Heavens Above!

as The Other Smallwood
Released: 1963-05-20

A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class...

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Meet Mr. Lucifer

as Man Friday
Released: 1953-11-30

A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.

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Simon and Laura

as David Prentice
Released: 1955-11-02

Bickering married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show.

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School for Scoundrels

as Henry Palfrey
Released: 1960-03-24

Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by...

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Storm Over the Nile

as Tom Willoughby
Released: 1955-12-26

In 1885, while his regiment is sent to the Sudan to battle the rebellious Dervish tribes,...

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Smashing Time

as Bobby Mome-Rath
Released: 1967-12-20

Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money...

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Trottie True

as Bill the Postman (uncredited)
Released: 1949-09-29

Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags...

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The Wind in the Willows

as Rat
Released: 1983-12-30

One spring, Mole decides that he can ignore the spring cleaning for a little longer, and begins...

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Private's Progress

as Pte. Stanley Windrush
Released: 1956-02-17

Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end...

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Miss Robin Hood

as Office Junior
Released: 1952-11-12

In this delightful fantasy adventure, a mild-mannered writer of adventure stories for girls...

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Happy Is the Bride

as David Chaytor
Released: 1958-03-04

In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the...

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The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins

as Mr. Ferris (segment "Pride")
Released: 1971-11-01

The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins is a 1971 British comedy film directed and produced by Graham...

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Ghost Ship

as Bernard
Released: 1952-10-01

Warned that it is haunted, a skeptical young couple buy a rundown yacht and fix it up to be...

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Hide and Seek

as David Garrett
Released: 1964-06-21

A professor of astronomy helping on a missile development program. An old friend of his is a...

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Lucky Jim

as Jim Dixon
Released: 1957-09-17

Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded...

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Bond Street

as Waiter
Released: 1948-05-12

Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond...

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The Amorous Prawn

as Cpl. Sidney Green
Released: 1962-11-26

While her husband, the General is abroad, Lady Fitzadam decides to convert their army residence...

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Dear Mr. Prohack

as Hat Salesman (uncredited)
Released: 1949-09-07

A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation...

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Time, Gentlemen, Please!

as P.R.O.
Released: 1952-07-01

Because of its high productivity and "almost" 100 per cent employment, the town of Hayhoe,...

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The Big Money

as Willie Frith
Released: 1958-06-09

Petty thief Willie Frith steals a suitcase full of bank notes, only to find out that they have...

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Light Up the Sky!

as Lt. Ogleby
Released: 1960-07-05

Chaos ensues when a bunch of misfits man a British searchlight battery during World War II.

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Left Right and Centre

as Robert Wilcot
Released: 1959-06-23

At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the...

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Alma Mater

as Jimmy Nicholson
Released: 1971-01-07

Jimmy Nicholson returns from working in the Middle East to visit his son at boarding school. He...

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Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Murder Must Advertise

as Lord Peter Wimsey
Released: 1973-11-30

Just before copywriter Victor Dean fell to his death, he wrote to his supervisors at Pym's...

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Down at the Hydro

as The Colonel
Released: 1983-09-04

Diedre and The Colonel separately attend a health spa and find themselves falling in love.

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A Moment in Time

as Colonel Hunt
Released: 1983-01-01

Colonel Hunt is a widower in his 60s. It is in search of health, not romance, that he books in...

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Obituaries

as Bartholomew 'Chalky' White
Released: 1990-08-16

Two old men in a nursing home engage in an ongoing competition. When the home is due to receive...

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Heartbeat

as T J Middleditch
First aired: 1992-04-10

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly...

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Bachelor Father

as uncredited
First aired: 1957-09-15

Bachelor Father is an American sitcom starring John Forsythe, Noreen Corcoran, and Sammee Tong....

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The Wind in the Willows

as uncredited
First aired: 1984-01-01

The Wind in the Willows is a TV series that was originally broadcast between 1984 and 1987,...

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Strathblair

as Sir James Menzies
First aired: 1992-05-03

Black Watch Sergeant Alec Ritchie and his new wife Jennifer move to a rundown sheep farm in the...

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Lord Peter Wimsey: Five Red Herrings

as Lord Peter Wimsey
First aired: 1975-07-23

Dorothy L. Sayer's amateur detective, Lord Peter Wimsey investigates and solves murder cases.

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Lord Peter Wimsey: Clouds of Witness

as Lord Peter Wimsey
First aired: 1972-04-05

Death hits close to home when Lord Peter’s future brother-in-law is murdered. Complicating...

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Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

as Lord Peter Wimsey
First aired: 1973-12-02

When General Fentiman is found dead in his chair a the posh Bellona Club, the cause seems...

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The Royal

as T.J. Middleditch
First aired: 2003-01-19

Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled...

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