Don Warrington
| Don Warrington MBE |
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|---|---|
| Born |
Don Williams 23 May 1951 |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1974 – present |
| Children | 2 |
Don Warrington, MBE (born Donald Williams, 23 May 1951) is a Trinidadian-born British actor.
He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours.
Warrington was born in Trinidad but as a young child went with his mother to England, where he was raised in Newcastle upon Tyne.
His father, Basil Kydd, was a Trinidadian politician who died in 1958. Warrington trained as an actor at the Drama Centre London. He started acting in repertory theatre at the age of 17.
Warrington is known for playing Philip Smith in Rising Damp, from 1974 to 1978, alongside Leonard Rossiter and Richard Beckinsale. Warrington also appeared as series regular in the crime drama C.A.T.S. Eyes, as government contact Nigel Beaumont (1985–1987); in Impact Earth (2007) playing General Harris; and in New Street Law as Judge Ken Winyard.
In 1993 Warrington played television reporter Graham Gaunt in To Play The King, the second part of the BBC's House of Cards trilogy.
He has had smaller roles in many programmes including Red Dwarf, Lovejoy, Manchild, and Diamond Geezer. Warrington portrayed the villainous founder of Time Lord society, Rassilon, in several Doctor Who audio plays, and also appeared as the President of an alternate universe Great Britain in the Doctor Who episode "Rise of the Cybermen" (2006). Soon after, he recorded an abridged audio book of the Doctor Who novel The Art of Destruction by Stephen Cole.
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