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Jack Warner
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Jack Warner
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1895-10-24,Bromley-by-Bow, London, England, UK
Gender
Male
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jack Warner OBE 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 Ladykillers

7.3

The Ladykillers
1955-12-08

The Quatermass Xperiment

6.5

The Quatermass Xperiment
1955-09-26

Against the Wind

6.3

Against the Wind
1948-02-01

It Always Rains on Sunday

6.6

It Always Rains on Sunday
1947-11-28

5.9

Dear Murderer
1947-06-23

6.5

Hue and Cry
1947-02-01

Carve Her Name with Pride

6

Carve Her Name with Pride
1958-02-18

4.9

Dominique
1980-03-06

The Ealing Comedies

0

The Ealing Comedies
1970-09-08

6.6

The Blue Lamp
1950-01-19

The Captive Heart

6.4

The Captive Heart
1946-04-29

My Brother's Keeper

6.3

My Brother's Keeper
1948-08-19

The Square Ring

7.1

The Square Ring
1953-07-13

7.3

Jigsaw
1962-08-21

6.1

Easy Money
1948-01-20

7.3

Albert R.N.
1953-11-23

Valley of the Eagles

6.2

Valley of the Eagles
1951-09-26

Train of Events

6.3

Train of Events
1949-01-18

6.7

The Final Test
1953-04-09

6.2

Boys in Brown
1949-12-01

6.7

Emergency Call
1952-05-19

Forbidden Cargo

6.9

Forbidden Cargo
1954-05-04

Vote for Huggett

7.2

Vote for Huggett
1949-02-01

The Huggetts Abroad

6.8

The Huggetts Abroad
1949-03-21

Here Come the Huggetts

6.7

Here Come the Huggetts
1948-12-02

Those People Next Door

5.8

Those People Next Door
1953-02-01

Bang! You're Dead

7.2

Bang! You're Dead
1954-03-15

6.8

Holiday Camp
1947-08-05

Now and Forever

7

Now and Forever
1956-09-10

7

Home and Away
1956-09-04

The Dummy Talks

5.4

The Dummy Talks
1943-10-25

Talk of a Million

9

Talk of a Million
1951-03-12

7.4

Scrooge
1951-11-30

Meet Me Tonight

7.1

Meet Me Tonight
1952-09-09

The Day Begins Early

6

The Day Begins Early
1950-12-23

0

Aladdin
1974-12-24

0

The Postman
1952-12-01

The Brothers Warner

6.6

The Brothers Warner
2008-10-16

Dixon of Dock Green

6

Dixon of Dock Green
1955-07-09

Christmas Night with the Stars

7

Christmas Night with the Stars
1958-12-25

7

Eye to Eye
1957-05-17

Tell Me Another

8

Tell Me Another
1976-05-18

The World of Hammer

6.8

The World of Hammer
1994-08-12