I'm All Right… Ian: The Story of Ian Carmichael Kindle Edition

I’m All Right… Ian: The Story of Ian Carmichael is a warm and vivid life of a much loved British actor. It follows the gentle Yorkshire lad from RADA and wartime tanks to West End revues, the Boulting comedies Private’s Progress, Lucky Jim and I’m All Right Jack, and the television triumphs that fixed him in the nation’s affections as Bertie Wooster and Lord Peter Wimsey. Along the way it shows how his courteous comic everyman reflected a changing Britain where class loosened and decency still mattered.Written in a clear, companionable voice and grounded in careful research and close memories, the book moves easily between rehearsal rooms and studio floors, then out to the North York Moors where Carmichael made his home. It captures the craft behind the easy charm, the patience behind the laugh, and the quiet discipline that colleagues trusted for seven decades.Readers will find• richly drawn scenes from stage, film and television• the Boulting years and the making of a national comic figure• the world of Wooster and the calm intelligence of Lord Peter• a thoughtful chapter on class, character and muddling through• the parallel life in theatre and on the radio, and the late voice work that stayed with listenersFor admirers of P G Wodehouse and Dorothy L Sayers, for lovers of classic British cinema and television, and for anyone who prefers a straight bat to a flourish, this is a tender, insightful portrait of an artist who made comedy humane and left a lasting afterglow. Read more