John Warwick
For other people named John Warwick, see John Warwick (disambiguation).
John Warwick (4 January 1905 – 10 January 1972) was an Australian veteran film and television actor and television dramatist.[1]
Early life
Born John McIntosh Beattle at Bellingen, New South Wales, Australia.[2]
Acting career
He had an extensive career over 40 years, beginning in Australian cinema in the early 1930s (he is attributed with introducing Errol Flynn, a personal friend in Sydney, to acting by bringing him along to a casting session when In the Wake of the Bounty was being filmed),[3] then in English cinema in the late 1930s-1940s, and television from the 1950s. In the 1960s he returned to Australia and ended his career in television drama & cinema there.[4]
Selected filmography
- On Our Selection (1932)
- In the Wake of the Bounty (1933)
- The Squatter's Daughter (1933)
- Riding High (1937)
- Passenger to London (1937)
- Double Alibi (1937)
- This Man Is News (1938)
- Dead Men are Dangerous (1939)
- The Face at the Window (1939)
- Flying Fifty-Five (1939)
- Spare a Copper (1940)
- Danny Boy (1941)
- The Missing Million (1942)
- Talk About Jacqueline (1942)
- While I Live (1947)
- Escape Route (1952)
- Never Look Back (1952)
- Street Corner (1953)
- Bang! You're Dead (1954)
- Up to His Neck (1954)
- The Long Arm (1956)
- Gideon's Day (1958)
- The Square Peg (1959)
- Horrors of the Black Museum (1959)
- The Desperate Man (1959)
- Go to Blazes (1962)
- Cobwebs in Concrete (1968) - TV play - writer[5]
- The Lady from Peking (1975)
Death
He died in Sydney, Australia, in January 1972.
References
- ↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/4371
- ↑ IMDb entry for 'John Warwick'
- ↑ Moore, John Hammond 'Young Errol Flynn Before Hollywood (2nd Edition, 2011, Pub. Trafford Publishing).
- ↑ 'John Warwick's filmography on IMDb
- ↑ Cobwebs in Concrete at Ausstage
External links
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