His wife, Kate, said he died Friday at his home in Yorkshire after falling ill at Christmastime, The Daily Telegraph reported.
After attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and playing a robot on stage, Carmichael interrupted his career to serve in the army in World War II. He returned to acting in the theater and movies.
Carmichael was best known for playing aristocrats in comedies where he co-starred with actors like Peter Sellers, Dennis Price and Terry Thomas. In "I'm All Right, Jack," he played a young World War II veteran given a job in his uncle's factory.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Carmichael worked more in television. He starred as Bertie Wooster with Price as Jeeves in shows based on the P.G. Wodehouse stories, and as Lord Peter Wimsey in a series based on Dorothy Sayers' mysteries.
Carmichael is survived by two daughters from his first marriage and his second wife, the novelist Kate Fenton.
When an interviewer asked him how he would spend a million pounds, Carmichael said he would buy "absolutely spiffing clarets."
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