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person_profile-Jack Warner

Jack Warner Died at age: 85

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Jack Warner

Date of Birth:

Oct 24, 1895

Country of birth:

UK

Died:

May 24, 1981

Biography of

Jack Warner

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

    Jack Warner OBE (24 October 1895 – 24 May 1981) was an English film and television actor.

    He was born in London, his real name being Horace John Waters. His sisters Elsie and Doris Waters were well-known comediennes under the names Gert and Daisy. Like them, Jack Warner made his name in music hall and radio, but he became known to cinema audiences as the patriarch in a trio of popular post-World War II family films beginning with Here Come the Huggetts. He also co-starred in the 1955 Hammer film version of The Quatermass Xperiment and as a police superintendent in the 1955 Ealing Studios black comedy The Ladykillers.

    Warner attended the Coopers' Company's Grammar School for Boys in Mile End, while his sisters both attended the nearby sister school, Coborn School for Girls in Bow. The three children were choristers at St. Leonard's Church, Bromley-by-Bow, and for a time, Warner was the choir's soloist.

    By the early war years Warner was nationally known and starred in a BBC radio comedy show Garrison Theatre, invariably opening with, "A Monologue Entitled...".

    It was in 1949 that Warner first played the role for which he would be remembered, PC George Dixon, in the film The Blue Lamp. One observer predicted, "This film will make Jack the most famous policeman in Britain". Although the police constable was shot dead in the film, the character was revived in 1955 for the BBC television series Dixon of Dock Green, which ran until 1976. In later years though, Warner and his long-past-retirement-age character were confined to a less prominent desk sergeant role. The series had a prime-time slot on Saturday evenings, and always opened with Dixon giving a little soliloquy to the camera, beginning with the words, "Good evening, all". According to Warner's autobiography, Jack of All Trades, Elizabeth II once visited the television studio where the series was made and told Warner "that she thought Dixon of Dock Green had become part of the British way of life".

    He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1965. In 1973, he was made a Freeman of the City of London. Warner commented in his autobiography that the honour "entitles me to a set of 18th century rules for the conduct of life urging me to be sober and temperate". Warner added, "Not too difficult with Dixon to keep an eye on me!"

    The characterisation by Warner of Dixon was held in such high regard that officers from Paddington Green Police Station bore the coffin at his funeral in 1981.

    Warner is buried in East London Cemetery. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Warner (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Jack Warner

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Filmography of

Jack Warner

Found 34 Movies in total

... 1980

The Ealing Comedies

Self ( Actor )

... 1970

Jigsaw

Det. Insp. Fred Fellows ( Actor )

... 1962

Carve Her Name with Pride

Mr. Bushell ( Actor )

... 1958

Now and Forever

Mr. J. Pritchard ( Actor )

... 1956

Home and Away

George Knowles ( Actor )

... 1956

The Ladykillers

The Superintendent ( Actor )

... 1955

The Quatermass Xperiment

Insp. Lomax ( Actor )

... 1955

Forbidden Cargo

Maj. Alec White ( Actor )

... 1954

Bang! You're Dead

Bonsell ( Actor )

... 1954

Albert R.N.

Capt Maddox ( Actor )

... 1953

The Square Ring

Danny Felton ( Actor )

... 1953

The Final Test

Sam Palmer ( Actor )

... 1953

Those People Next Door

Sam Twigg ( Actor )

... 1953

Meet Me Tonight

Murdoch ( Actor )

... 1952

Emergency Call

Inspector Lane ( Actor )

... 1952

Scrooge

Jorkins ( Actor )

... 1951

Valley of the Eagles

Inspector Peterson ( Actor )

... 1951

Talk of a Million

Bartley Murnahan ( Actor )

... 1951

The Blue Lamp

PC George Dixon ( Actor )

... 1950

Boys in Brown

Governor ( Actor )

... 1949

The Huggetts Abroad

Joe Huggett ( Actor )

... 1949

Vote for Huggett

Joe Huggett ( Actor )

... 1949

Train of Events

Jim Hardcastle ( Actor )

... 1949

Here Come the Huggetts

Joe Huggett ( Actor )

... 1948

My Brother's Keeper

George Martin ( Actor )

... 1948

Against the Wind

Max Cronk ( Actor )

... 1948

Easy Money

Philip Stafford ( Actor )

... 1948

It Always Rains on Sunday

Detective Sergeant Fothergill ( Actor )

... 1947

Holiday Camp

Joe Huggett ( Actor )

... 1947

Dear Murderer

Inspector Penbury ( Actor )

... 1947

Hue and Cry

Nightingale ( Actor )

... 1947

The Captive Heart

Cpl. Ted Horsfall ( Actor )

... 1946

The Dummy Talks

Jack ( Actor )

... 1943