Stephen Greif on Warren Mitchell: 'He carried off every major theatre acting award going for his Willy Loman'
In 1975, Warren Mitchell and I, playing father and son, were rehearsing a scene from Moss, a BBC Play for Today, by Bernard Kops. During a black comedy moment, I had to mouth off in a horribly lairy manner to Warren, who was lying on a bed semi-comatose with guilt and grief. He sat up, started laughing in the middle of it, and, when the director Philip Saville asked him why, blurted out: "Him … He's just like me wh…