"[On the early end of a Broadway run] So I went over there and, I'm delighted to say, the play flopped [audience laughter]. I hated New York. I loathed it. I sent Michael [Mills] a telegram after the notice went up at the end of the first week. It said "Boeing Boeing coming off next week. Am at your full disposal." He told me later that telegram arrived on his desk at Television Centre while he was holding a conference as to who should play Bertie [Wooster] as I wasn't available."
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Carmichael was cast in The World of Wooster for BBC Television with Dennis Price as Jeeves.
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Ian Carmichael
Ian Gillett Carmichael OBE (18 June 1920 β 5 February 2010) was an English film, stage, television and radio actor.
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