Ian Carmichael

Ian Carmichael

Birthday: 1920-06-18

Place of Birth: Kingston-Upon-Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK

Biography: Ian Gillett Carmichael, OBE (18 June 1920 – 5 February 2010) 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.

Movies

The Lady Vanishes
The Lady Vanishes

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

View Movie
I'm All Right Jack
I'm All Right Jack

Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at...

View Movie
School for Scoundrels
School for Scoundrels

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

View Movie
The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows

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

View Movie
The Colditz Story
The Colditz Story

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

View Movie
From Beyond the Grave
From Beyond the Grave

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

View Movie
Obituaries
Obituaries

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

View Movie
Down at the Hydro
Down at the Hydro

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

View Movie
Double Bunk
Double Bunk

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

View Movie
Betrayed
Betrayed

When the Dutch resistance brings in Carla Van Oven to spy on the Nazis, Col. Pieter Deventer initial...

View Movie
Private's Progress
Private's Progress

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

View Movie
Diamond Skulls
Diamond Skulls

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

View Movie
Left Right and Centre
Left Right and Centre

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

View Movie
Simon and Laura
Simon and Laura

A couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show....

View Movie
Hide and Seek
Hide and Seek

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

View Movie
The Big Money
The Big Money

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

View Movie
Meet Mr. Lucifer
Meet Mr. Lucifer

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

View Movie
Miss Robin Hood
Miss Robin Hood

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

View Movie
Brothers in Law
Brothers in Law

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

View Movie
Light Up the Sky!
Light Up the Sky!

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

View Movie
Bond Street
Bond Street

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

View Movie
Heavens Above!
Heavens Above!

A clerical error leads to the appointment of a left-leaning small-town priest to a rich village, whe...

View Movie
Happy Is the Bride
Happy Is the Bride

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

View Movie
The Amorous Prawn
The Amorous Prawn

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

View Movie
Lucky Jim
Lucky Jim

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

View Movie
Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Murder Must Advertise
Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Murder Must Advertise

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

View Movie
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest

TV adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play. Jack pretends to be his foolish younger brother, Ernest in or...

View Movie
A Moment in Time
A Moment in Time

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

View Movie
Storm Over the Nile
Storm Over the Nile

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

View Movie
Smashing Time
Smashing Time

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

View Movie
Alma Mater
Alma Mater

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

View Movie
Ghost Ship
Ghost Ship

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

View Movie
Time, Gentlemen, Please!
Time, Gentlemen, Please!

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

View Movie
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins

A septet of satirical vignettes based on the Seven Deadly Sins....

View Movie
The Great Kandinsky
The Great Kandinsky

The once-reknowned escape-artist and magician, Kandinsky, is now reduced to confounding the staff an...

View Movie
Trottie True
Trottie True

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

View Movie
Dear Mr. Prohack
Dear Mr. Prohack

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

View Movie
Richard Wilson - Both Feet In the Army
Richard Wilson - Both Feet In the Army

Former National Service Conscript - actor, Richard Wilson - takes a light hearted look at this taste...

View Movie
The Wind in the Willows: Winter Tales
The Wind in the Willows: Winter Tales

Brought to the screen by award winning animation team Cosgrove Hall, 'The Wind In The Willows' bring...

View Movie
Children's Favourites - Volume 1
Children's Favourites - Volume 1

A compilation of episodes from The Wind in the Willows, Danger Mouse and Alias the Jester....

View Movie
Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 1
Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 1

A compilation of episodes from Count Duckula, Dangermouse and Wind in the Willows....

View Movie
Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 2
Lollipop Children's Favourites - Volume 2

A compilation of episodes from Count Duckula, Dangermouse and Wind in the Willows....

View Movie
More Children's Summer Stories
More Children's Summer Stories

A compilation of episodes from Count Duckula, Dangermouse and The Wind in the Willows....

View Movie
More Children's Holiday Favourites
More Children's Holiday Favourites

A compilation of episodes from Count Duckula, Dangermouse and The Wind in the Willows....

View Movie
The Christmas Collection
The Christmas Collection

A compilation of episodes from The Sooty Show, Rainbow and The Wind in the Willows....

View Movie
The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows

Four animals named Mole, Rat, Badger, and Toad try to navigate the Riverbank as well as the Wild Woo...

View Movie