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John Warnaby
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John Warnaby
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1960-11-06,Birmingham, England, UK
Gender
Male
Biography
John Warnaby (6 November 1960 – 13 April 2024) was a British actor on stage, television and in films. In later life he became a Catholic priest. John Michael Warnaby was born on 6 November 1960. He attended St Teresa’s Primary School in the Birmingham suburb of Handsworth Wood, before going to St Philip’s College in Edgbaston from 1971 to 1979. Between 1979 and 1982 he read theology at Oriel College, Oxford. After university Warnaby worked for the Corporation of Lloyd’s as a regulator in the area of solvency and financial reporting. He set up an office in Atlanta, Georgia in the USA, where he worked with investors for two years. He continued to work in this field until 2000. While still working for Lloyd's, Warnaby embarked on a career as an actor. His breakthrough came in 1988 in a stage adaptation of Tom Stoppard's radio play Artist Descending a Staircase, directed by Tim Luscombe, in which Warnaby played the young version of the character Donner (the older version being played by Frank Middlemass). It was first performed at the Kings Head, Islington, London, later transferring to the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End. Warnaby joined the RSC for the 1990/91 season in The Swan in Stratford and the Pit at the Barbican in London. He played Paris in Sam Mendes' production of Troilus and Cressida (played by Ralph Fiennes and Amanda Root) and doubled as the Earl of Lancaster and the Abbot of Neath in Gerard Murphy's production of Edward II (played by Simon Russell Beale). He also appeared in Richard Nelson's Two Shakespearean Actors, directed by Roger Michell, and The Shakespeare Revue, devised by Chris Luscombe. In 1996 Warnaby appeared at the National Theatre, playing Napoleon Bonaparte and Boris Dubretskoy in Helen Edmundson's adaptation of Tolstoy's War and Peace, directed by Nancy Meckler. In 2001 Warnaby played Freddie in Laurence Boswell's revival of Peter Nichols’ play A Day in the Death of Joe Egg at the Comedy Theatre in a cast which included Eddie Izzard, Victoria Hamilton and Prunella Scales. In 2006 he appeared in the television adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst’s novel The Line of Beauty. In Nicholas de Jongh's 2009 stage hit in London Plague Over England, Warnaby played both 1950s Home Secretary David Maxwell Fyfe and an acerbic theatre critic. In later life, Warnaby retired from acting and trained as a Catholic priest. In 2013 he was sent to the Pontifical Beda College in Rome. On his ordination in 2017, his first appointment was as Assistant Priest at St Monica’s, Palmers Green. In 2019 he moved to St George’s, Sudbury as Assistant Priest. The following year he moved to St Joseph’s, Carpenders Park, initially as Assistant Priest and, from 2022, as Parish Priest. Warnaby died after a short illness on 13 April 2024, at the age of 63. His funeral took place in his own parish of St Joseph's. Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, presided over the Requiem Mass

Filmography

6.211

Wimbledon
2004-09-13

7.317

Les Misérables
2012-12-18

A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg

0

A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg
2002-03-13

Friends & Crocodiles

5.1

Friends & Crocodiles
2005-08-28

The King's Speech

7.733

The King's Speech
2010-11-26

Hughie Green, Most Sincerely

1

Hughie Green, Most Sincerely
2008-04-01

Dark Blue World

7

Dark Blue World
2001-05-17

The History of Mr Polly

6

The History of Mr Polly
2007-05-07

0

Bliss
1995-06-11

5.741

The Sweeney
2012-09-11

6.296

Mr. Stink
2012-12-23

5.738

Paper Mask
1990-09-14

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Attack of the Hawkmen

5.7

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Attack of the Hawkmen
1995-10-08

6.6

Topsy-Turvy
1999-12-15

Diana: Last Days of a Princess

7.1

Diana: Last Days of a Princess
2007-07-30

6.293

The Raven
2012-03-09

The Commissioner

5.7

The Commissioner
1998-02-22

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

6.7

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
2000-08-26

5

Privileged
1982-09-01

On Dangerous Ground

4.833

On Dangerous Ground
1996-05-13

4.8

Midnight Man
1997-08-20

Agatha Christie's Poirot

8.1

Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989-01-08

5.9

Mistresses
2008-01-08

7.158

Space Race
2005-09-14

7.3

Lovejoy
1986-01-10

6.1

Peak Practice
1993-05-10

Secret Diary of a Call Girl

6.855

Secret Diary of a Call Girl
2007-09-27

7.286

Garrow's Law
2009-11-01

6

Magic Grandad
1993-01-12

6

Magic Grandad
1993-01-12

6.7

The Detectives
1993-01-27

The Line of Beauty

6.545

The Line of Beauty
2006-05-17

A Touch of Frost

7.507

A Touch of Frost
1992-12-06

The Second Coming

6.7

The Second Coming
2003-02-09

Midsomer Murders

7.522

Midsomer Murders
1997-03-23

The New Statesman

7.5

The New Statesman
1987-09-13

The New Statesman

7.5

The New Statesman
1987-09-13

Soldier Soldier

6.4

Soldier Soldier
1991-06-10

6.96

The Musketeers
2014-01-19

7.319

The Wrong Mans
2013-09-24

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

6.2

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987-08-02

7.557

Silent Witness
1996-02-21

6.9

Maigret
1992-02-09

Between the Lines

5.6

Between the Lines
1992-09-04

7.125

Eternal Law
2012-01-05

7.357

New Tricks
2004-01-01

6.833

Screen Two
1985-01-06

0

El C.I.D.
1990-02-07

7.571

Hamish Macbeth
1995-03-26

7.042

Injustice
2011-06-06

5.7

Space Precinct
1994-10-03