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Jack Warner

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Jack Warner started acting with the Sutton Amateur Dramatics Club after the end of World War I. From 1935, performed in cabaret at the London West End as half of the double act of Warner & Darnell. In addition to starring as Dixon of Dock Green (1955), which ran for over 20 years, he achieved lasting popularity on screen in the role of Joe Huggett, patriarch of a Cockney family, in Holiday Camp (1947), and its three sequels (plus a radio serial). Towards the end of his working life, 1976-80, Warner made a brief return to cabaret, before a stroke brought about his retirement.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
Jack was a real Cockney having been born with in the sound of the Bow Bells. His father brought the family up to appreciate music with each member playing an instrument and Jack on the viola. At 14 Jack worked in a garage and 2 years later was sent to a French car factory and on his return worked at a London car firm where he was chosen to chauffer KIng George V. He went in for car racing and road testing cars eventually becoming service manager of a big London car firm. All the time he was interested in entertaining and eventually chose show business doing comedy and singing. In WWII he became known for his radio shows then moved into films.
- IMDb mini biography by: Tonyman 5

Opening every episode of Dixon of Dock Green (1955) with a salute and the line, "Evenin' all".
Closing episodes of Dixon of Dock Green (1955) with "Good Night, all".

On his death in 1981, aged 85, his coffin was borne by officers from Paddington Green police station where Dixon of Dock Green (1955) creator Ted Willis had done much of his initial research for the show in 1955, and where Dixon was stationed in The Blue Lamp (1950).
His arthritis meant his character had to stop walking the beat and become a desk sergeant. The condition was treated with bee stings.
After the Huggett films, he continued playing the character in the radio series 'Here Come the Huggetts' which ran for many years.
He was made an OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in the 1965 Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to drama.
Was a fully qualified automobile engineer. Prior to World War I, he worked in Paris as a car mechanic and went on to wartime service in France as a driver attached to the Royal Flying Corps.

Never turn anything down ... stars come and go but as a character actor, you'll work until you're 90.
While I was immensely thrilled to be voted top British male star by the Motion Picture Herald, after The Blue Lamp, I received another award I treasured above everything ! It was a casket and scroll presented to me by officers of the Metropolitan Police 'F' Division and gave me 'the freedom of police stations, the freedom of their tea, the freedom to criticise its quality and if he does, the freedom of the cells'. This tribute was made to me after the film's premiere by Chief Superintendent F. H. Archer, of Hammersmith, who had taught me how to walk talk and salute like a policeman.

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