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Don Warrington (Donald Williams) was born on 23 May, 1951 in Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago, is a British actor (born 1951). Discover Don Warrington's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?
Popular As |
Donald Williams |
Occupation |
Actor |
Age |
72 years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Gemini |
Born |
23 May, 1951 |
Birthday |
23 May |
Birthplace |
Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago |
Nationality |
Trinidad and Tobago
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He is a member of famous Actor with the age 72 years old group.
Don Warrington Height, Weight & Measurements
At 72 years old, Don Warrington height is 1.78 m .
Physical Status |
Height |
1.78 m |
Weight |
Not Available |
Body Measurements |
Not Available |
Eye Color |
Not Available |
Hair Color |
Not Available |
Dating & Relationship status
He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
Family |
Parents |
Not Available |
Wife |
Not Available |
Sibling |
Not Available |
Children |
2 |
Don Warrington Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Don Warrington worth at the age of 72 years old? Don Warrington’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. He is from Trinidad and Tobago. We have estimated Don Warrington's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
Net Worth in 2024 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
Salary in 2024 |
Under Review |
Net Worth in 2023 |
Pending |
Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
House |
Not Available |
Cars |
Not Available |
Source of Income |
Actor |
Don Warrington Social Network
Timeline
Don Warrington MBE (born Don Williams, 23 May 1951) is a Trinidadian-born British actor.
His father, Basil Kydd, was a Trinidadian politician who died in 1958.
Warrington attended Harris College (now the University of Central Lancashire) and trained as an actor at the Drama Centre London.
As there was already an actor called Don Williams when he joined Equity, he took the stage surname "Warrington" after Warrington Road, the street he grew up on.
He started acting in repertory theatre at the age of 17.
He is best known for playing Philip Smith in the ITV sitcom Rising Damp (1974–78), and Commissioner Selwyn Patterson in the BBC detective series Death in Paradise (2011–present).
His film roles included the movie version of Rising Damp (1980), the Kenny Everett horror comedy Bloodbath at the House of Death (1983), The Lion of Africa (1987), Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (1996), Peter Greenaway's 8½ Women (1999), and the horror film Lighthouse (1999).
Warrington is also a theatre actor and has performed with the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Bristol Old Vic and the Royal Exchange, Manchester.
Warrington also appeared as series regular in the crime drama C.A.T.S. Eyes, as government contact Nigel Beaumont (1985–1987); as General Harris in Impact Earth (2007), and as Judge Ken Winyard in New Street Law.
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 has also appeared in BBC1 sitcom The Crouches, which aired from 9 September 2003 until 2005.
He played Bailey, who was Roly's boss at a London Underground station in South London.
Warrington played the role of the Hospital Chaplain in Casualty, assuming the role of Trevor.
Warrington portrayed the founder of Time Lord society, Rassilon, in several Doctor Who audio plays, and also appeared as the President of an alternative-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.
He is one of the interviewees on the BBC 2 series Grumpy Old Men, and he appears in a series of Kenco coffee advertisements in the United Kingdom in which he plays an African coffee plantation owner.
He regularly provides voice-overs for both BBC television and radio.
He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours.
Warrington was born in Trinidad, but moved to England with his mother and brother at a young age, while his sister stayed in Trinidad.
He was brought up in Newcastle upon Tyne.
In 2008, Warrington competed in the sixth series of Strictly Come Dancing, partnered with the 2005 and 2006 British National Champion in Latin American dance, Lilia Kopylova.
After Week 4, Warrington was joint seventh out of the remaining 12 contestants with an average of 24.5 points.
In Week 5, he was eliminated, having lost the dance-off against Heather Small, with the first three judges all voting for Small over Warrington.
He also starred in the 2010 film It's a Wonderful Afterlife.
He also appeared in Grange Hill as Mr Peters, the father of pupil Lauren Peters.
He provided voiceover links, reading out the various methods of contacting the show on the Chris Evans Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2, which was broadcast from 11 January 2010.
Since 2011, Warrington has played Commissioner Selwyn Patterson in the BBC show Death in Paradise.
He also appeared as jazz musician Frederick J. Louden in a BBC radio production of The Devil's Music, written by Alan Plater.
In 2011, Warrington played the father of a suspected terrorist in the last series of the BBC drama Waking the Dead.
In 2012, he played master of the college Marcus Harding in “Generation of Vipers”, S6:E2 of Lewis.
In 2012–13, he toured with Gwen Taylor in a new stage version of Driving Miss Daisy.
In 2013, Warrington played the lead role of Joe Keller, in Talawa Theatre Company's all-black revival of Arthur Miller's tragedy All My Sons at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, directed by Michael Buffong – a production that The Guardian reviewer called "flawless", giving it a five-star rating.
Warrington performed in the lead role of King Lear in a 2016 Talawa Theatre Company and Royal Exchange, Manchester production.
Mark Shenton wrote in The Stage that "Warrington seizes and owns it with magnetic, majestic power" as "one of many virtues in this outstanding production."
Claire Allfree in The Telegraph wrote: "Lear is the Everest of roles, and Don Warrington ... ascends the cliff face with magnificent authority. He rages around his daughters like a hulking thunder cloud in human form, not just the incarnation of absolute rule but of something more ancient and of the earth."
He appeared as the central protagonist Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman at the Royal Exchange Theatre from October to November 2018.