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Leslie Mitchell (broadcaster)

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in London. This was following the family's financial difficulties, therefore he did not attend university. Mitchell got small roles on the stage. He lacked theatrical training but was able to land roles because of his attractive features and a rich voice. He toured Britain with the Art League for two
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service for weekdays in London, where he became senior announcer, and was also in charge of talks and as chairman of discussion programmes. Mitchell was the first announcer to be heard on the service when it launched on the evening of 22 September 1955. He was the first presenter of the programme
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In 1946, suspecting that commercial broadcasting would eventually be allowed in the United Kingdom, he travelled to the United States and gained experience of the methods of publicity used there. In the post-war years he had a stint as filmmaker
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was published in 1981. Mitchell died of an undisclosed illness in Paddington Community Hospital in London on 23 November 1985 after a final period of ill health. His ashes were scattered in Scotland. A memorial service for him was held at
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in February 1956. Mitchell was moved from the post of the head of talks and discussion features at Associated-Rediffusion to being the service's head of presentation from 14 May 1956 as his former job was divided among other departments.
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He became freelance again in 1958; when his contract with Associated-Rediffusion expired at the end of March, he resigned. Though ill health continued to affect him, much of his later work was on programmes concerning the early days of
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before being sacked; Playfair's stage director Stephen Thomas sacked Mitchell because he was "totally inexperienced." In 1930, he played Andy in Philip Johnson's Long Shadows. Mitchell was also
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Mitchell received the John Logie Baird Award "for outstanding contribution to television" in 1964. He was made the first honorary member of the
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in January 1965. Mitchell remarried to Danish-born Inge Vibeke Asboe on 29 October 1966. He had no children in both of his marriages.
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on 2 November 1936. Starting from that day, he interviewed well-known and newsworthy guests on the first television magazine programme
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He was the first British television announcer when the BBC's regular high definition television service was publicly launched from
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for six years and 264 editions. Mitchell conducted some 20 interviews on the programme each week. Just before the start of the
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when war necessitated the suspension of television broadcasting. Mitchell retired from Movietone News on 10 January 1975.
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was ready to transfer to the West End. He needed facial surgery, jawline repairs, a damaged eye, and wore a leg brace.
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on 4 October 1905, the only child of the caterer Charles Eric Mitchell and his wife Leslie Florence Whittington (
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during the war, as he could not enroll in the Armed Forces because of his health, and he worked for the
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in 1939. He resigned from the BBC in 1939 in order to take up the job. Mitchell enlisted in the British
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network, on 22 September 1955. His voice was perhaps best known from his lengthy relationship with
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and chose his luxury item as a silver box containing a miniature singing bird and a biography of
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at the end of the year when his contract ended. Mitchell was the compère of the first episode of
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in 1961, and a 40th anniversary documentary in 1976. He also presented the nostalgic
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In 1923, he intended to be a novelist, but a stepfather got him a job as a trainee
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in September 1950. Mitchell played himself in the 1953 British Universal film
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after a time as a trainee stockbroker. Mitchell was the first voice heard on
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In 1985, Mitchell made his final television performance in the documentary
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plays. In 1928, he did plays in England and South Africa, toured with
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Armchair Nation: An Intimate History of Britain in Front of the TV
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drives him to a nervous breakdown. He was the question master of
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on November 2, 1936, and also gave the inaugural announcement on
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In late 1951, he was the co-presenter and mock counsel on the
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Around The World In Seven Minutes And Four Times On Saturday
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In 1932, he began working as a dance band commentator on
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Mitchell appeared as himself in the 1942 comedy film
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Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten
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and his wife; Locke arranged for Mitchell to attend
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Freeman of the City of London
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First World War
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Royal Navy
Lake Geneva
stockbroker
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Edgar Wallace
Journey's End
understudy
Leslie Banks
Nigel Playfair
Laurence Olivier
Colin Clive
BBC Radio
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