Don Warrington MBE was born on Donald Williams, 23 May 1951 and is a Trinidadian-born British actor.
26 Facts About Don Warrington
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Don Warrington is best known for playing Philip Smith in the ITV sitcom Rising Damp, and Commissioner Selwyn Patterson in the BBC detective series Death in Paradise.
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Don Warrington was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2008 Birthday Honours.
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Don Warrington's father, Basil Kydd, was a Trinidadian politician who died in 1958.
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Don Warrington started acting in repertory theatre at the age of 17.
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Don Warrington is best known for playing Philip Smith in Rising Damp, from 1974 to 1978, alongside Leonard Rossiter, Richard Beckinsale, and Frances de la Tour.
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In 1993 Don Warrington played television reporter Graham Gaunt in To Play the King, the second part of the BBC's House of Cards trilogy.
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Don Warrington has had smaller roles in many programmes including Red Dwarf, Lovejoy, Manchild, and Diamond Geezer.
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Don Warrington portrayed the founder of Time Lord society, Rassilon, in several Doctor Who audio plays, and appeared as the President of an alternative-universe Great Britain in the Doctor Who episode "Rise of the Cybermen".
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Don Warrington is one of the interviewees on the BBC 2 series Grumpy Old Men, and he appears in a series of Kenco coffee advertisements in the United Kingdom in which he plays an African coffee plantation owner.
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Don Warrington regularly provides voice-overs for both BBC television and radio.
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Don Warrington has appeared in BBC1 sitcom The Crouches, which aired from 9 September 2003 until 2005.
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Don Warrington played Bailey, who was Roly's boss at a London Underground station in South London.
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Don Warrington played the role of the Hospital Chaplain in Casualty, assuming the role of Trevor.
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Don Warrington starred in the 2010 film It's a Wonderful Afterlife.
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Don Warrington appeared in Grange Hill as Mr Peters, the father of pupil Lauren Peters.
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Don Warrington provided voiceover links, reading out the various methods of contacting the show on the Chris Evans Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2, which was broadcast from 11 January 2010.
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Since 2011, Don Warrington has played Commissioner Selwyn Patterson in the BBC show Death in Paradise.
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Don Warrington appeared as jazz musician Frederick J Louden in a BBC radio production of The Devil's Music, written by Alan Plater.
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In 2011, Don Warrington played the father of a suspected terrorist in the last series of the BBC drama Waking the Dead.
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Don Warrington is a theatre actor and has performed with the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Bristol Old Vic and the Royal Exchange, Manchester.
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Don Warrington performed in the lead role of King Lear in a 2016 Talawa Theatre Company and Royal Exchange, Manchester production.
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Don Warrington appeared as George in David Mamet's Glengarry Glenn Ross between October 2017 and February 2018 at the Playhouse Theatre alongside Christian Slater, Robert Glenister, Kris Marshall and Daniel Ryan.
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Don Warrington appeared as the central protagonist Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman at the Royal Exchange Theatre from October to November 2018.
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In 2008, Don Warrington competed in the sixth series of Strictly Come Dancing, partnered with the 2005 and 2006 British National Champion in Latin American dance, Lilia Kopylova.
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Don Warrington joined the show to step out of his comfort zone, and he appreciated the opportunity to learn to dance.