Actor jack warner biography actor

An avuncular character actor, usually in sympathetic roles, who represented the average, decent 'man on the Clapham omnibus', who became a film star of the Clement Attlee era (1945-51), often playing policemen and honest, dependable working-class fathers, and British audiences could easily identify with his aspirations.

He also had a nice line in film villains, who were all the more shocking because of his image.

Warner (born Horace John Waters in Bromley-by-Bow on 24 October 1896) was in the Royal Flying Corps in WW1, and from the '20s in variety as a comedian, delivering comic monologues - his sisters were variety performers Elsie and Doris Waters.

Actor jack warner biography actor

His film debut was in a variety theatre mystery, The Dummy Talks (d. Oswald Mitchell, 1943), and he soon became an Ealing regular, with good roles in Hue and Cry (d. Charles Crichton, 1946), as leader of a gang of crooks, and in Against the Wind (d.

Crichton, 1947), as the traitor shot dead by the French resistance her