Jack Warner

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.

He played Glady's Henson's husband in 3 of the 4 films they made together - Captive Hear (1946), Train of Events (1949), and The Blue Lamp(1950). The 4th film was Those People Next Door (1953).

Holiday Camp, which was set in the Summer, was actually filmed in the Winter at the beginning of 1947.

In the film, The Blue Lamp (1950), his character of George Dixon was killed off after 21 minutes. The character was brought back for the TV series of Dixon of Dock Green (1955) and he played the role for 21 years.

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).

He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1965 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to drama.

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 actually stationed in The Blue Lamp (1950).