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Today's featured article Ian Carmichael (18 June 1920 – 5 February 2010) was an English actor who had a career that spanned seventy years. Born in Kingston upon Hull, he trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, but his studies—and the early stages of his career—were curtailed by the Second World War. After initial success in revue and sketch productions, he was cast by the film producers John and Roy Boulting to star in a series of satires, starting with Private's Progress in 1956 through to I'm All Right Jack in 1959. In the mid-1960s he played Bertie Wooster for BBC Television for which he received positive reviews, including from P. G. Wodehouse, the writer who created the character of Wooster. In the early 1970s he played another upper-class literary character, Lord Peter Wimsey, the amateur but talented investigator created by Dorothy L. Sayers. Carmichael was often typecast as an affable but bumbling upper-class innocent, but he retained a disciplined approach to training and rehearsing. (Full article...) Recently featured: Russet sparrow Emmy Noether The Combat: Woman Pleading for the Vanquished Today's featured picture {{{caption}}} Archive More featured pictures Did you know... Boulder–Deer Creek Pass ... that Boulder–Deer Creek Pass (pictured) is home to "Togo" wolves and is a potential habitat for grizzly bears? ... that Wang Yungui lifted her family out of poverty, then helped hundreds of other people in her home village to do likewise? ... that Inua Ellams created the antagonist for "The Story & the Engine" after learning that "ghost writer" translates to 'Black person' in French? ... that Regina George was once voted the "meanest high school film character of all time"? ... that The Guardian recommended Buried Alive! as a book to help children make friends? ... that John Lynch was at one point the only honors linguistics student at the University of Sydney? ... that Pope John Paul I broke with tradition by declining to be crowned with a tiara at his inauguration? ... that Robin Adair Harvey reached 17 state championships in 24 years as a high school field hockey coach? ... that British troops during the sack of Yogyakarta looted all the court archives and manuscripts except for a single Quran?

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