Jack Warner

Jack Warner

  • Birthday: 1895-10-22
  • Deathday: 1981-05-24
  • Place of birth: Bromley-by-Bow, London, England, UK
  • Also know as: Джек Уорнер

Biography

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.

Filmography

The Blue Lamp

1950

As PC George Dixon

The Square Ring

1953

As Danny Felton

My Brother's Keeper

1948

As George Martin

Jigsaw

1962

As Det. Insp. Fred Fellows

Easy Money

1948

As Philip Stafford

Valley of the Eagles

1951

As Inspector Peterson

Train of Events

1949

As Jim Hardcastle

The Final Test

1953

As Sam Palmer

Emergency Call

1952

As Inspector Lane

Forbidden Cargo

1954

As Maj. Alec White

Here Come the Huggetts

1948

As Joe Huggett

The Huggetts Abroad

1949

As Joe Huggett

Vote for Huggett

1949

As Joe Huggett

Those People Next Door

1953

As Sam Twigg

Bang! You're Dead

1954

As Bonsell

Home and Away

1956

As George Knowles

The Dummy Talks

1943

As Jack

Talk of a Million

1951

As Bartley Murnahan

The Quatermass Xperiment

1955

As Inspector Lomax

Albert R.N.

1953

As Capt Maddox

Against the Wind

1948

As Max Cronk

Hue and Cry

1947

As Nightingale

Carve Her Name with Pride

1958

As Mr. Bushell

Boys in Brown

1949

As Governor

Holiday Camp

1947

As Joe Huggett

Dear Murderer

1947

As Inspector Penbury

Now and Forever

1956

As Mr. J. Pritchard

The Ealing Comedies

1970

As Self

The Captive Heart

1946

As Cpl. Ted Horsfall

The Ladykillers

1955

As The Superintendent

Scrooge

1951

As Jorkins

Meet Me Tonight

1952

As Murdoch

Dominique

1980

As

It Always Rains on Sunday

1947

As Detective Sergeant Fothergill

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