1. John Bluthal started his career during the Golden Age of British Television, where he was best known for his comedy work in the UK with Spike Milligan, and for his role as Manny Cohen in the television series Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width.
John Bluthal was educated at Princes Hill Central School in Carlton North and University High School in Parkville.
John Bluthal began his acting career in Melbourne's Yiddish Theatre and subsequently studied drama at the University of Melbourne.
John Bluthal worked in repertory theatre in Melbourne and appeared in Australian radio dramas, as well as television productions including Shell Presents and Three's A Crowd.
John Bluthal devised and produced Gaslight Music Hall, in which he starred.
John Bluthal moved to the United Kingdom permanently in 1960 and appeared in Citizen James in 1960 for BBC television, and the long-running ITV comedy series Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width in which he played Manny Cohen, a Jewish London tailor in business with an Irish Catholic tailor, Patrick Kelly, played by Joe Lynch.
John Bluthal had worked with Spike Milligan before leaving Australia, appearing with him in a 1958 Australian television special, The Gladys Half-Hour, in the Australian radio comedy series The Idiot Weekly.
John Bluthal later worked extensively with Milligan on the television series Q and its radio counterpart The Milligan Show.
John Bluthal was able to produce many comedic and imitative voices, like Milligan's radio colleague Peter Sellers, and he was used somewhat like Sellers in Milligan's later work.
John Bluthal appeared as Leonid Krasin in episodes of the Thames TV series Reilly, Ace of Spies.
John Bluthal played several characters in The Great McGonagall, by Spike Milligan and Joseph McGrath, based on the life of William McGonagall.
John Bluthal portrayed an Egyptologist in the year 1914 for the first part of the film The Fifth Element and Uncle Karl in Dark City.
John Bluthal appeared in the comedy Beware of Greeks Bearing Guns.
John Bluthal's agent confirmed on 16 November 2018 that the actor had died, aged 89, in New South Wales, Australia.