11 Interesting Facts About Jack Warner

1. #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).

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2. #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.

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3. #003

   After the Huggett films, Jack Warner continued to play the character in the long-running radio series 'Here Come the Huggetts'.

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4. #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.

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5. #007

   Tatil Kampı, whose story is set in summer, was shot in the winter in early 1947.

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6. #008

   Esir Kalp is considered one of the best films he made.

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7. #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.

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8. #010

   He first appeared before the public at the age of 9 wearing a skirt.

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9. #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.

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10. #012

    He was over thirty before he became a professional entertainer.

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11. #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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