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"Warren Mitchell" is an English actor. He is a British Academy Television Award/BAFTA TV Award winner and two-time Olivier Award winner.

In the 1950s, Mitchell appeared on the radio programmes Educating Archie and Hancock's Half Hour. In the 1960s, he rose to prominence in the role of bigoted cockney Alf Garnett in the BBC television sitcom Till Death Us Do Part (1965–75), created by Johnny Speight, which won him a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor/Best TV Actor BAFTA in 1967. He reprised the role in the TV sequels Till Death... (Associated TeleVision/ATV, 1981) and In Sickness and in Health (BBC, 1985–92), and in the films Till Death Us Do Part (film)/Till Death Us Do Part (1969) and The Alf Garnett Saga (1972). His other film appearances include Three Crooked Men (1958), Carry on Cleo (1964), The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (film)/The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965), The Assassination Bureau (1969) and Norman Loves Rose (1982). He holds both British and Australian citizenship and has enjoyed considerable success in stage performances in both countries, winning Olivier Awards in 1979 for Death of a Salesman and 2004 for The Price (play)/The Price.