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| | Gormenghast | Barquentine |
 | | The diminutive, irascible, and powerful Barquentine serves as official guardian of castle protocol and ritual at Gormenghast, directing the Earl and his family in the traditions and superstitions that have governed the castle for hundreds of years. |
| | On stage, Mitchell received critical acclaim for his performance as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman at the National Theatre in London, but he is perhaps best known as the bigoted, loud-mouthed Alf Garnett in the BBC series Till Death Us Do Part, the model for All in the Family's Archie Bunker. |
| | The lynch-pin son of the dead Sourdust, by name Barquentine, Master of Ritual, is a stunted, cantankerous pedant of seventy, who stepped into his father's shoes (or, to be exact, his show, for this Barquentine is a one-legged thing who smites his way through ill-lit corridors on grim and echoing crutch.) |
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