Jack Warner
Biography: 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.
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Birthday: October 22, 1895
Deathday: May 24, 1981
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The Ladykillers
1955-12-08
The Ladykillers
Overview: 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 musicians.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-08
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The Quatermass Xperiment
1955-08-26
The Quatermass Xperiment
Overview: 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 is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-26
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Against the Wind
1948-02-01
Against the Wind
Overview: A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to rescue a prominent S.O.E. agent, who is being interrogated by the Germans for vital information.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-01
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It Always Rains on Sunday
1947-11-28
It Always Rains on Sunday
Overview: During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-28
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Dear Murderer
1947-06-23
Dear Murderer
Overview: When a man discovers his wife is having an affair, he commits the perfect crime.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-23
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Hue and Cry
1947-02-01
Hue and Cry
Overview: 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 and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies.
Genres: Comedy Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-01
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Carve Her Name with Pride
1958-02-18
Carve Her Name with Pride
Overview: London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses the German enemy lines as a secret agent to aid a French Resistance group.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-18
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Dominique
1980-03-06
Dominique
Overview: The wife of a greedy man comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-06
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The Ealing Comedies
1970-09-08
The Ealing Comedies
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-08
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The Blue Lamp
1950-01-19
The Blue Lamp
Overview: 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 easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-19
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The Captive Heart
1946-04-29
The Captive Heart
Overview: A series of stories about the lives and loves of men in a Prisoner of War camp over five years. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis. To do this, he poses as a dead English Officer and corresponds with the man's wife. Other inmates’ stories are also revealed. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany adds believability.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-29
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My Brother's Keeper
1948-08-19
My Brother's Keeper
Overview: 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 to obtain railway tickets, and with the police and the press in hot pursuit, George has to find a way of breaking loose from Willie, and to make his escape.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-19
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The Square Ring
1953-07-13
The Square Ring
Overview: Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-13
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Jigsaw
1962-08-21
Jigsaw
Overview: 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. Jim Wilks lead an investigation methodically following up leads and clues mostly in Brighton and Hove but also further afield. _-= Based on the novel "Sleep Long My Love" by Hillary Waugh and Inspired by the Brighton Trunk Murders of the late 1930's =-_
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-21
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Easy Money
1948-01-20
Easy Money
Overview: 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 coupon apparently didn't get posted. A mild-mannered clerk worries about how to tell his overbearing boss he is quitting. A double-bass player finds life without the orchestra lacks something. The lure of the big money even turns some people into criminals, as when a coupon checker is tempted by his night-club singer girlfriend to cheat the company. Written by Jeremy Perkins
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-20
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Albert R.N.
1953-11-23
Albert R.N.
Overview: 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 which they christen "Albert" and use at roll call in order to foil the German guards.
Genres: War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-23
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Valley of the Eagles
1951-09-26
Valley of the Eagles
Overview: 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 assistant, who head across the frozen tundra towards Russia. A police inspector and a local girl team up with the scientist to help recover the device.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-26
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Train of Events
1949-01-18
Train of Events
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-18
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The Final Test
1953-04-09
The Final Test
Overview: 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 Jackson) to see his final innings. But Reggie prefers poetry to cricket and when he is offered the opportunity to read his poetry to England's greatest playwright Alexander Whitehead (Robert Morley) on the last day of the test, the relationship between father and son is tested to the limit. As Sam prepares for his final knock, the conflict with his son weighs heavily on his mind, but he is also upset over England's young batsman and ladies-man, Syd Thompson (George Relph), dating the woman whom he hopes to marry.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-09
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Boys in Brown
1949-12-01
Boys in Brown
Overview: 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 Borstal where he meets a tough crowd, tougher than anything on the outside.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-01
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Emergency Call
1952-05-19
Emergency Call
Overview: 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, so the race is on to find the donors.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-19
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Forbidden Cargo
1954-05-04
Forbidden Cargo
Overview: Kenyon is a narcotics agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a brother and sister drug smuggling team.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-04
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Vote for Huggett
1949-02-01
Vote for Huggett
Overview: 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 lido/community center.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-01
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The Huggetts Abroad
1949-03-21
The Huggetts Abroad
Overview: 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 decide that they should go to South Africa by truck. With their travelling companion they travel across the desert which includes a brush with the law.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-21
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Here Come the Huggetts
1948-12-02
Here Come the Huggetts
Overview: 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' factory.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-02
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Those People Next Door
1953-02-01
Those People Next Door
Overview: 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 Blitz whilst taking everything in good humour. Their neighbours Joe (Charles Victor) and Emma (Gladys Henson) are constantly in the Twiggs house, borrowing a cup of sugar or using their Anderson shelter and between them the two working class families put the world to rights. But when their daughter falls for an upper class RAF pilot the Twiggs are asked by his mother, Lady Diana Stephens to tell their daughter to call the romance off, as the social gap between the families is too large. Incensed by Lady Diana s offer of money, Sam Twigg throws her out of the house. But events take a sudden turn as the war enters the Twiggs own living room. Will the two families manage to overcome their disdain for each other and let true love find its way?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-01
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Bang! You're Dead
1954-03-15
Bang! You're Dead
Overview: 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 'highwayman' on the road and holds up a cyclist; the gun goes off, killing the cyclist. Both boys are unaware of the tragic consequences of their game. The body and the gun are found by Bob Carter, who had recently quarreled with the victim in the presence of their workmates, and both men had uttered threats. The evidence is strong, and Bob is arrested for murder...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-15
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Holiday Camp
1947-08-05
Holiday Camp
Overview: 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 missing from home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-05
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Now and Forever
1956-09-10
Now and Forever
Overview: 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 then decides to elope.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-10
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Home and Away
1956-09-04
Home and Away
Overview: 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 partnership with the son of a woman against whom George has some ill feelings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-04
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The Dummy Talks
1943-10-25
The Dummy Talks
Overview: An operation of counterfeit five pound notes is discovered at a variety theater, leading to murder during the performance.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-25
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Talk of a Million
1951-03-12
Talk of a Million
Overview: 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 scene is set for a hilarious tale of creative deception!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-12
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Scrooge
1951-11-28
Scrooge
Overview: Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-28
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Meet Me Tonight
1952-09-09
Meet Me Tonight
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-09
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