Jack Warner

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.

  • Title : Jack Warner
  • Popularity : 9.778
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1895-10-22
  • Place of Birth : Bromley-by-Bow, London, England, UK
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  • Also Known As : Джек Уорнер, Horace John Waters
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Jack Warner Movies

  • 1955
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    The Ladykillers

    The Ladykillers

    7.26 1955 HD

    Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical...

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  • 1955
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    The Quatermass Xperiment

    The Quatermass Xperiment

    6.518 1955 HD

    The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and...

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  • 1948
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    Against the Wind

    Against the Wind

    5.8 1948 HD

    A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to...

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  • 1947
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    It Always Rains on Sunday

    It Always Rains on Sunday

    6.6 1947 HD

    During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.

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  • 1947
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    Dear Murderer

    Dear Murderer

    5.7 1947 HD

    When a man discovers his wife is having an affair, he commits the perfect crime.

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  • 1947
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    Hue and Cry

    Hue and Cry

    6.2 1947 HD

    A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer...

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  • 1958
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    Carve Her Name with Pride

    Carve Her Name with Pride

    5.7 1958 HD

    London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses...

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  • 1980
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    Dominique

    Dominique

    5.2 1980 HD

    The wife of a greedy man comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death.

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  • 1970
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    The Ealing Comedies

    The Ealing Comedies

    1 1970 HD

    The story of the men and women who produced a series of film comedies that were so original and funny that they put Ealing on the map.

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  • 1950
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    The Blue Lamp

    The Blue Lamp

    6.538 1950 HD

    P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the...

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  • 1946
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    The Captive Heart

    The Captive Heart

    6.2 1946 HD

    A series of stories about the lives and loves of nine men in a Prisoner of War Camp over five years. Location shooting in the British occupied part...

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  • 1948
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    My Brother's Keeper

    My Brother's Keeper

    6.1 1948 HD

    War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan...

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  • 1953
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    The Square Ring

    The Square Ring

    6.6 1953 HD

    Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.

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  • 1962
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    Jigsaw

    Jigsaw

    7.3 1962 HD

    A woman is found murdered in a seaside house along the coast from Brighton in the county of East Sussex, England. Local D.I. Fred Fellows and D.S....

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  • 1948
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    Easy Money

    Easy Money

    6 1948 HD

    A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the...

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  • 1953
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    Albert R.N.

    Albert R.N.

    7.2 1953 HD

    The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attempts fail. One of the prisoners constructs a dummy...

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  • 1951
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    Valley of the Eagles

    Valley of the Eagles

    6 1951 HD

    A Norwegian scientist builds a device that can convert sound waves into electrical energy. However, the machine is stolen by the scientist's wife and...

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  • 1949
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    Train of Events

    Train of Events

    6.2 1949 HD

    A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.

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  • 1953
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    The Final Test

    The Final Test

    6.6 1953 HD

    Legendary England cricketer Sam Palmer (Jack Warner) is due to bat in his final test match against Australia. He is desperate for his son Reggie (Ray...

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  • 1949
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    Boys in Brown

    Boys in Brown

    6.5 1949 HD

    Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in...

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  • 1952
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    Emergency Call

    Emergency Call

    6.5 1952 HD

    A 5-year-old child is diagnosed with leukaemia and has only days to live. Her only hope is a blood transfusion, but her blood type is extremely rare,...

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  • 1954
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    Forbidden Cargo

    Forbidden Cargo

    6.4 1954 HD

    Kenyon is a narcotics agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a brother and sister drug smuggling team.

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  • 1948
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    Here Come the Huggetts

    Here Come the Huggetts

    6.5 1948 HD

    The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix'...

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  • 1949
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    Vote for Huggett

    Vote for Huggett

    6.6 1949 HD

    A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a...

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  • 1949
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    The Huggetts Abroad

    The Huggetts Abroad

    6.6 1949 HD

    Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the family...

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  • 1953
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    Those People Next Door

    Those People Next Door

    4.7 1953 HD

    The Twiggs are a typical working-class family: Sam (Jack Warner) and Mary (Marjorie Rhodes) are trying to bring their family up in the shadow of the...

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  • 1954
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    Bang! You're Dead

    Bang! You're Dead

    7.3 1954 HD

    Two small boys are playing in a wood. The younger boy has a revolver and, not understanding that the gun differs from his toy pistol, plays...

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  • 1947
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    Holiday Camp

    Holiday Camp

    6.1 1947 HD

    The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend...

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  • 1956
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    Now and Forever

    Now and Forever

    7 1956 HD

    A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him. The girl attempts to commit suicide and...

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  • 1956
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    Home and Away

    Home and Away

    7 1956 HD

    When George discovers that he has won the pools, there is huge excitement in the household. But it turns out that it's his son who has won, in...

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  • 1943
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    The Dummy Talks

    The Dummy Talks

    4.7 1943 HD

    An operation of counterfeit five pound notes is discovered at a variety theater, leading to murder during the performance.

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  • 1951
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    Talk of a Million

    Talk of a Million

    1 1951 HD

    A family reduced to imminent poverty by the father's disinclination to work; an American lawyer looking for the heir to half a million pounds; the...

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  • 1951
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    Scrooge

    Scrooge

    7.44 1951 HD

    Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show...

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  • 1952
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    Meet Me Tonight

    Meet Me Tonight

    6.7 1952 HD

    Meet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the Noel Coward stage production of the same name.

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  • 1955
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    Dixon of Dock Green

    Dixon of Dock Green

    5.3 1955 HD

    Created by Ted Willis. Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series following the activities of police officers at a fictional Metropolitan Police...

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  • 1958
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    Christmas Night with the Stars

    Christmas Night with the Stars

    1 1958 HD

    A gala programme broadcast each Christmas night by the BBC from 1958 to 1972 and also revived in 1994. It was hosted by a leading star and featured...

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  • 1957
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    Eye to Eye

    Eye to Eye

    7 1957 HD

    Documentary programmes looking at aspects of contemporary British life.

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  • 1976
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    Tell Me Another

    Tell Me Another

    8 1976 HD

    Personal anecdotes as told to Dick Hills.

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