Alf Garnett character, saying: "If you do the character correctly, he just typifies what you hear - not only in pubs but in golf clubs around the country. To make him truthful he's got to say those things, and they are nasty things. But I feel as a writer that they should be out in the open so we can see how daft these comparisons are." Mitchell left the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art with a trained actor's voice. A lifelong, committed socialist, he sold socialist newspapers on street corners, shouting his wares in his beautifully trained voice. It was only when he realised why people were not buying his newspapers that he developed Alf's voice, to appear more "working class". Mitchell stated that he became tired of always being associated with Alf Garnett but enjoyed playing the part and appreciated the debt he owed to the character. In the late 1980s, the Museum of the Moving Image in London staged an "Alf Garnett exhibition", where visitors pressed buttons representing particular social problems and were presented with Alf giving his opinions on the subject. The American version of Till Death Do Us Part, All in the Family, featured Archie Bunker in the Alf Garnett mould. Like Garnett in British popular culture, Bunker became an icon in American popular culture for his very conservative views, although the Bunker character was portrayed as somewhat more likable than Garnett. Bunker, in turn, served as an inspiration for Eric Cartman of South Park. The German version of the show, Ein Herz und eine Seele, featured Alfred Tetzlaff in the Garnett mould, although Tetzlaff was also designed as a parody of Adolf Hitler. In the movie Till Death Us Do Part, Alf receives a letter advising him that he has been called up for war service. However, the letter which is shown on screen is addressed to Alfred Garnet. Later in the film, Alf claims that the call-up papers were in error because he was in a Reserved Occupation and thus ineligible for service, so possibly the authorities had confused him with someone with a similar name. In the TV series and films, Alf is always shown as a pipe smoker, usually smoking St Bruno tobacco in a Straight Billiard type pipe. The character was a staunch defender of smoking and Warren Mitchell himself received the award of Pipe Smoker of the Year in 1967