ACTOR
Jack Warner
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- #001
When Jack Warner died in 1981 at the age of 85, his coffin was carried by officers from Paddington Green police station, where Ted Willis, creator of Dixon of Dock Green (1955), had done most of his initial research for the series in 1955 and where Dixon had served in The Blue Lamp (1950).
- #002
Arthritis meant that Warner's character had to stop walking a beat and become a desk sergeant. The condition was treated with bee stings.
- #003
After the Huggett films, Jack Warner continued to play the character in the long-running radio series 'Here Come the Huggetts'.
- #004
He was appointed OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in the 1965 Queen's Birthday Honours for services to drama.
- #005
Jack Warner was a fully qualified motor engineer. Before the First World War he worked as a car mechanic in Paris, and during the war he served as a driver with the Royal Flying Corps in France.
- #006
In The Blue Lamp (1950), the character George Dixon is killed after 21 minutes. The character was brought back for the series Dixon of Dock Green (1955), and Warner played the role for 21 years.
- #007
Tatil Kampı, whose story is set in summer, was shot in the winter in early 1947.
- #008
Esir Kalp is considered one of the best films he made.
- #009
Warner's success in the role of Dixon was well received by police forces. In the 1950s he was made an honorary member of both the Margate and Ramsgate Police Forces.
- #010
He first appeared before the public at the age of 9 wearing a skirt.
- #011
Throughout his life he acquired a knowledge of French that would serve him well; an impression of Maurice Chevalier became part of his repertoire.
- #012
He was over thirty before he became a professional entertainer.
- #013
During the First World War he served as a driver with the Royal Flying Corps in France and was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal in 1918.
- #014
After leaving school he studied automobile engineering at Northampton Institute (now part of City, University of London), but left after a year because he was more practical than academic and went to work at F. W. Berwick and Company's repair facility in Balham, where he started sweeping floors for 2 pence an hour. Frederick William Berwick became a partner in the British-French car manufacturing company Sizaire-Berwick, and in August 1913 Warner was sent to work as a mechanic in Paris.
- #015
He was the godfather of Jenny Hanley because of his long-standing friendship with her father, Jimmy Hanley.
- #016
The respect in which Warner's fictional portrayal of a policeman was held was evident at the actor's funeral at Margate Crematorium on 1 June 1981. Police delegations attended (some coming from Wales and Newcastle upon Tyne), while six Margate police officers stood as a guard of honour outside the chapel, including 16 members of the Metropolitan Police led by Assistant Commissioner George Rushbrook and Commander John Atkins.
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