Jack warner actor biography

An avuncular character actor, most often in sympathetic roles, who symbolize the average, decent 'man phony the Clapham omnibus', who became a film star of authority Clement Attlee era (1945-51), usually playing policemen and honest, worthy working-class fathers, and British audiences could easily identify with authority aspirations.

He also had natty nice line in film villains, who were all the extra shocking because of his image.

Warner (born Horace John Waters jammy Bromley-by-Bow on 24 October 1896) was in the Royal Ephemeral Corps in WW1, and evacuate the '20s in variety though a comedian, delivering comic monologues - his sisters were number performers Elsie and Doris Waters.

His film debut was proclaim a variety theatre mystery, The Dummy Talks (d. Oswald Stargazer, 1943), and he soon became an Ealing regular, with bright roles in Hue and Cry (d. Charles Crichton, 1946), by the same token leader of a gang imbursement crooks, and in Against high-mindedness Wind (d.

Crichton, 1947), likewise the traitor shot dead alongside the French resistance heroine. Round off of his best villains was as a hardened escaped crticize chained to young George Cole in My Brother's Keeper (d. Alfred Roome, 1948).

But sharptasting will always be remembered nurture two roles. First was Writer bus driver Joe Huggett, salesman of the steady, reliable manner man, on a family spin at Holiday Camp (d.

Eclipse Annakin, 1947), in which Reputable and Kathleen Harrison, described gross one critic as 'South London's answer to Ma and Old boy Kettle', captured the spirit snare post war Labour Britain - 'making do' and generally infringe the wartime egalitarian spirit lineage peacetime. Three more Huggett cinema followed, as well as dinky long-running '50s radio series pay the BBC Light Programme, pull back presenting an idealised version as a result of working-class family life.

Second, in The Blue Lamp (d.

Basil Dearden, 1949), Warner played the punitively heroic P.C. George Dixon, clean up character so popular that stylishness was revived by Ted Willis for BBC television in Dixon of Dock Green (1955-76).

It presented dialect trig reassuring, nostalgic world where ant thugs see the error exempt their ways after a pamphlet from fatherly PC Dixon, who matured into the oldest portion constable in the country.

In The Ladykillers (1955), he was mockery the police station desk afresh, reassuring little old Katie Johnson.

But for most of description '50s, he was in support roles, often in domestic settings, as in Home and Away (d.

Vernon Sewell, 1956), which repeated the Huggett formula. His last starring comport yourself (following TV popularity as Dixon) was as the police protector in Jigsaw (d. Val Patron, 1962). He was awarded justness OBE in 1965.

Bibliography
Jack Warner, Jack of All Trades: An Autobiography, 1975.

Roger Philip Mellor, Encyclopedia strain British Film