Miriam Karlin Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Miriam Karlin, OBE (23 June 1925 – 3 June 2011) was a British actress who worked on screen for over 60 years. She was best known for her role as Paddy in The Rag Trade, a 1960s BBC and 1970s LWT sitcom, especially for her catchphrase "Everybody out!". Her trademark throughout her career was her deep, husky voice and London accent. Born Miriam Samuels in Hampstead, North London, she was brought up in an Orthodox Jewish family; members of her extended family were among those who later died at Auschwitz. She was the daughter of Céline (née Aronowitz) and Harry Samuels, a Jewish... MORE

Miriam Karlin, OBE (23 June 1925 – 3 June 2011) was a British actress who worked on screen for over 60 years. She was best known for her role as Paddy in The Rag Trade, a 1960s BBC and 1970s LWT sitcom, especially for her catchphrase "Everybody out!". Her trademark throughout her career was her deep, husky voice and London accent. Born Miriam Samuels in Hampstead, North London, she was brought up in an Orthodox Jewish family; members of her extended family were among those who later died at Auschwitz. She was the daughter of Céline (née Aronowitz) and Harry Samuels, a Jewish barrister, who specialised in industrial and trade union law. Her brother was Michael Samuels, a historical linguist, responsible for the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. When she was doing one of her first radio shows, Terry-Thomas's Top of the Town, she based some of the zany characters she invented and played on people who had appeared before the rent tribunal chaired by her father. After training at RADA, Karlin made her stage debut for ENSA – the Forces Entertainment organisation – in wartime shows and subsequently appeared in repertory theatre and cabaret. She appeared in LESS