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Jack Warner is a Actor British born on 22 october 1895 at London (United-kingdom)

Jack Warner

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Birth name Horace John Waters
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 22 october 1895 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 24 may 1981 (at 85 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Awards Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

Jack Warner (born Horace John Waters) OBE (24 October 1895 – 24 May 1981) was an English film and television actor. He is closely associated with the role of PC George Dixon, which he played until the age of eighty, but he was also for some years one of Great Britain's most popular film stars.

Biography

He was born in London, his real name being Horace John Waters. His sisters Elsie and Doris Waters were well-known comediennes who usually performed as "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. During the First World War he served as a Driver in the Royal Flying Corps .

By the early years of the Second World War, 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 he played 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!"

He died of pneumonia in London in 1981, aged 85. 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.

Warner is buried in East London Cemetery.



^ Warner (1975), p. 2.

^ Warner (1975), pp. 74–75.

^ Warner (1975), p. 10.

^ Warner (1975), p. 108.

^ Warner (1975), p. 84.

^ Warner (1975), p. 201.

^ Warner (1975), p. 207.

^ Sydney-Smith (2002), pp. 105–106.

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Filmography of Jack Warner (34 films)

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Dominique
Dominique (1980)
, 1h40
Directed by Michael Anderson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Cliff Robertson, Jean Simmons, Jenny Agutter, Simon Ward, Ron Moody, Judy Geeson
Roles George
Rating54% 2.7056452.7056452.7056452.7056452.705645
Greedy David Ballard (Cliff Robertson) wants to get the money of his wife Dominique (Jean Simmons), so he attempts to drive her insane. He succeeds and she hangs herself, only to come back to haunt him from the afterlife.
Dominique
Dominique (1980)
, 1h40
Directed by Michael Anderson, Brian W. Cook
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Cliff Robertson, Jean Simmons, Jenny Agutter, Simon Ward, Ron Moody, Judy Geeson
Rating54% 2.7056452.7056452.7056452.7056452.705645
Dominique Balard se suicide. Son mari David, qui cherchait à s'approprier sa fortune de son vivant, est peu à peu assailli par des visions de sa défunte épouse.
Jigsaw
Jigsaw (1962)
, 1h47
Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Jack Warner, Ronald Lewis, Yolande Donlan, Michael Goodliffe, John Le Mesurier, Moira Redmond
Roles Det. Insp. Fred Fellows
Rating71% 3.593333.593333.593333.593333.59333
A woman is murdered near Brighton. Two local detectives lead an investigation, methodically following up leads and clues mostly in Brighton and Hove, but also further afield.
Carve Her Name with Pride, 1h59
Directed by Lewis Gilbert
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Denise Grey, Jack Warner, Maurice Ronet, Billie Whitelaw
Roles Mr. Bushell
Rating71% 3.5883553.5883553.5883553.5883553.588355
Violette Bushell is a young woman whose father is English and mother is French, living in London during World War II. She meets French Army officer Etienne Szabo, stationed in the city, and within three days they become engaged to be married. They have a daughter, Tania, but Etienne never sees the child as he is killed fighting in North Africa; Violette Szabo and her daughter move into her parents' home.
The Quatermass Xperiment, 1h22
Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Jack Warner, Richard Wordsworth, Dame Thora Hird, Lionel Jeffries
Roles Inspector Lomax
Rating65% 3.2987153.2987153.2987153.2987153.298715
The British Rocket Group, headed by the taciturn Professor Bernard Quatermass, launches its first manned rocket into space. Shortly thereafter, all contact is lost with the rocket and its three crew: Carroon, Reichenheim, and Green. The large rocket later returns to Earth, crashing into an English country field.
The Ladykillers, 1h31
Directed by Alexander Mackendrick
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Jack Warner, Katie Johnson
Roles The Superintendent
Rating75% 3.7971853.7971853.7971853.7971853.797185
Mrs. Louisa Alexandra Wilberforce (Katie Johnson) is a sweet and eccentric old widow who lives alone with her raucous parrots in a gradually subsiding "lopsided" house, built over the entrance to a railway tunnel in Kings Cross, London. With nothing to occupy her time and an active imagination, she is a frequent visitor to the local police station where she reports fanciful suspicions regarding neighbourhood activities. Having led wild-goose chases in the past, she is humoured by the officers there who give her reports no credence whatever.
Bang! You're Dead, 1h28
Directed by Lance Comfort
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Jack Warner, Seán Barrett, Derek Farr, Veronica Hurst, Michael Medwin, Gordon Harker
Roles Bonsell
Rating64% 3.2382653.2382653.2382653.2382653.238265
Cliff Bonsell (Richmond) lives a solitary life with his widowed father (Warner) in a hut on a decommissioned American army munitions stores depot in rural England. He has few friends, his main companion being the slightly older Willy Maxted (Barrett), a quiet and introverted child who lives nearby with his grandmother (Beatrice Varley). Cliff has developed a fascination for guns from films he has seen, regarding them as fun toys with which to play imaginitive games. Willy's main interest is his gramophone record collection.
Forbidden Cargo, 1h25
Directed by Harold French
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, La provence, Transport films
Actors Jack Warner, Nigel Patrick, Elizabeth Sellars, Terence Morgan, Jack Warner, Greta Gynt
Roles Maj. Alec White
Rating64% 3.239013.239013.239013.239013.23901
Un agent des Douanes reçoit une information à propos d'un trafic de drogue. On suspecte Roger Compton et sa sœur Rita. Il les suit jusqu'à Cannes puis de retour à Londres. Mais il commence à éprouver des sentiments pour la belle Rita...
Albert R.N., 1h28
Directed by Lewis Gilbert
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Historical
Themes Prison films, Political films
Actors Anthony Steel, Jack Warner, Robert Beatty, Jack Warner, William Sylvester, Guy Middleton
Roles Capt Maddox
Rating65% 3.294053.294053.294053.294053.29405
The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attempts fail. One of the prisoners makes a dummy which they christen "Albert" and use at roll call in order to foil the German guards.
The Square Ring, 1h23
Directed by Basil Dearden, Michael Leighton George Relph
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Théâtre, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Films based on plays, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Jack Warner, Robert Beatty, Bill Owen, Maxwell Reed, George Rose, Bill Travers
Roles Danny Felton
Rating64% 3.241243.241243.241243.241243.24124
Five stories that take place mainly in the locker room prior to and after various bouts during a single evening at a cheap boxing stadium. These include a novice cheated of victory, a boxer who refuses to "throw" a fight, and a veteran trying to make a come-back who pays with his life.
The Final Test, 1h30
Directed by Anthony Asquith
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Sports films, Cricket films
Actors Jack Warner, Jack Warner, Robert Morley, George Relph, Adrianne Allen, Brenda Bruce
Roles Sam Palmer
Rating65% 3.286323.286323.286323.286323.28632
The film is a comedy drama, set around leading cricketer Sam Palmer's last appearance for England. He desperately wants his son to be there at The Oval to witness this, but the son is more concerned with meeting a leading poet Alexander Whitehead. Whitehead, it turns out, is more interested in cricket. Whitehead takes Reggie along to the match, in time to see Sam get out for a duck.
Emergency Call
Directed by Lewis Gilbert
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller
Actors Anthony Steel, Joy Shelton, Jack Warner, Sid James, Earl Cameron, John Robinson
Roles Inspector Lane
Rating61% 3.0977353.0977353.0977353.0977353.097735
The film centres around a race against the clock to locate three blood donors each able to donate one pint of a rare type of blood to save the life of a young girl suffering from leukaemia. The doctor in charge of treating the girl enlists the assistance of police officer Inspector Lane in order to assist in the search for suitable donors. The three donors are each from very different backgrounds, a white boxer, a black sailor, and finally a murderer who has been on the run from the police for a number of years. The boxer's donation is fairly straightforward, having only to avoid his manager, the sailor's donation is more complicated, following a war-time incident where a dying Nazi soldier refused to accept his offer of a donation which he attributes to racism, he initially refuses to donate, until it is explained to him that the Nazi officer refused his donation for reasons that can be attributed to the Nazi's Master race ideology.