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	\| name = Jack Warner		\| name = Jack Warner
	\| honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire\|OBE]]		\| honorific_suffix = [[w:Order of the British Empire\|OBE]]
	\| image = Jack Warner.jpg		\| image = Jack Warner.jpg
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	\| birthname = Horace John Waters		\| birthname = Horace John Waters
	\| birth_date = {{birth date\|1895\|10\|24\|df=y}}		\| birth_date = {{birth date\|1895\|10\|24\|df=y}}
	\| birth_place = [[Bromley-by-Bow]], [[London]], England		\| birth_place = [[w:Bromley-by-Bow\|Bromley-by-Bow]], [[w:London\|London]], England
	\| death_date = {{death date and age\|1981\|5\|24\|1895\|10\|24\|df=y}}		\| death_date = {{death date and age\|1981\|5\|24\|1895\|10\|24\|df=y}}
	\| death_place = London, England		\| death_place = London, England
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	\| years_active = 1943–1978		\| years_active = 1943–1978
	\| spouse = {{marriage\|Muriel Peters\|1933<!--As marriage ended by death of Warner, not by death of his spouse, the year 1981 is omitted here. See instructions on [[Template:Marriage]] for more info-->}}		\| spouse = {{marriage\|Muriel Peters\|1933<!--As marriage ended by death of Warner, not by death of his spouse, the year 1981 is omitted here. See instructions on [[Template:Marriage]] for more info-->}}
	\| resting_place = [[East London Cemetery]], London, England		\| resting_place = [[w:East London Cemetery\|East London Cemetery]], London, England
	\| known_for = ''[[Dixon of Dock Green]]''		\| known_for = ''[[w:Dixon of Dock Green\|Dixon of Dock Green]]''
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	'''Jack Warner''', [[Order of the British Empire\|OBE]] (born '''Horace John Waters''', 24 October 1895 – 24 May 1981) was a British actor. He is closely associated with the role of PC George Dixon, which he played in the 1950 film ''[[The Blue Lamp]]'' and later in the television series ''[[Dixon of Dock Green]]'' from 1955 until 1976, but he was also for some years one of Britain's most popular film stars.		'''Jack Warner''', [[w:Order of the British Empire\|OBE]] (born '''Horace John Waters''', 24 October 1895 – 24 May 1981) was a British actor. He is closely associated with the role of PC George Dixon, which he played in the 1950 film ''[[w:The Blue Lamp\|The Blue Lamp]]'' and later in the television series ''[[w:Dixon of Dock Green\|Dixon of Dock Green]]'' from 1955 until 1976, but he was also for some years one of Britain's most popular film stars.

	==Early life==		==Early life==

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{{Infobox person
| name = Jack Warner
| honorific_suffix = [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]]
| image = Jack Warner.jpg
| image_size = 150px
| birthname = Horace John Waters
| birth_date = {{birth date|1895|10|24|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Bromley-by-Bow]], [[London]], England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1981|5|24|1895|10|24|df=y}}
| death_place = London, England
| occupation = Actor
| years_active = 1943–1978
| spouse = {{marriage|Muriel Peters|1933}}
| resting_place = [[East London Cemetery]], London, England
| known_for = ''[[Dixon of Dock Green]]''
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'''Jack Warner''', [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (born '''Horace John Waters''', 24 October 1895 – 24 May 1981) was a British actor. He is closely associated with the role of PC George Dixon, which he played in the 1950 film ''[[The Blue Lamp]]'' and later in the television series ''[[Dixon of Dock Green]]'' from 1955 until 1976, but he was also for some years one of Britain's most popular film stars.

==Early life==
Warner was born '''Horace John Waters'''<ref name="warner2">Warner (1975), p. 2.</ref> in Bromley, Poplar, London, the third child of Edward William Waters, master fulling maker and undertaker's warehouseman, and Maud Mary Best.<ref name="ODNB">''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. OUP Oxford.</ref> His sisters, [[Elsie and Doris Waters]], were comediennes who usually performed as "[[Gert and Daisy]]".<ref name="warner74-75">Warner (1975), pp. 74–75.</ref>

Warner attended the [[Coopers' Company and Coborn School|Coopers' Company's Grammar School for Boys]] in [[Mile End]],<ref name="warner10">Warner (1975), p. 10.</ref> while his sisters both attended the nearby sister school, [[Coopers' Company and Coborn School|Coborn School for Girls]] in [[Bow, London|Bow]]. The three children were choristers at St. Leonard's Church, [[Bromley-by-Bow]], and for a time, Warner was the choir's soloist.<ref name="warner10"/>

After leaving school, he studied automobile engineering at the [[Northampton Institute]] (now part of the [[City University London|City University, London]]) but being more practical than academic he left after a year to work at the repair facilities of F.W. Berwick and Company in [[Balham]],<ref name="ODNB" /> where he started by sweeping the floors for 2[[Penny (British pre-decimal coin)|d]] per hour.<ref name="TMA">''Tell Me Another'', personal anecdotes as told to Dick Hills. [[Southern Television]], first broadcast 10 August 1977.</ref> Frederick William Berwick became a partner in the Anglo-French automobile manufacturing company [[Sizaire-Berwick]] and, in August 1913, Warner was sent to work as a mechanic in Paris. He drove completed chassis to the coast from where they were shipped to England, road-testing them ''en route''.<ref name="FWB">{{cite news |title=F. W. Berwick and Co |url=http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/F._W._Berwick_and_Co |work=Grace's Guide to British Industrial History |quote=Chassis were driven to the coast in groups of three and road-tested en-route by Jack Waters, prior to shipping to England. |access-date=19 October 2015}}</ref> He acquired a working knowledge of French which stood him in good stead throughout his life; an imitation of [[Maurice Chevalier]] became a part of his repertoire.<ref name="ODNB" />

During the [[First World War]], he served in France as a driver in the [[Royal Flying Corps]] and was awarded the [[Meritorious Service Medal (United Kingdom)|Meritorious Service Medal]] in 1918. He returned to England and the motor trade in 1919, graduating from hearses to occasional car racing at [[Brooklands]]. He was over thirty before he became a professional entertainer.<ref name="ODNB" />

==Career==
Warner first became known to the general public in [[music hall]] and radio. By the early years of the [[Second World War]], he was nationally known and starred in a BBC radio comedy show, ''[[Garrison Theatre]]'', invariably opening with "A Monologue Entitled...".

===Film===
Warner's first film was ''[[The Dummy Talks]]'' (1943), in which he had the lead role. He had a support role in ''[[The Captive Heart]]'' (1946), a successful film. Also successful were ''[[Hue and Cry (film)|Hue and Cry]]'' and ''[[Dear Murderer]]'' (both 1947). Warner was the [[patriarch]] of the Huggett family in ''[[Holiday Camp (film)|Holiday Camp]]'' (1947) which was a big hit. He played a policeman in ''[[It Always Rains on Sunday]]'' (1947), and was another family man in the comedy ''[[Easy Money (1948 film)|Easy Money]]'' (1948).

He was in a war film, ''[[Against the Wind (film)|Against the Wind]]'' (1948), and starred in a thriller, ''[[My Brother's Keeper (film)|My Brother's Keeper]]'' (1948). The Huggett family had been so well received in ''Holiday Camp'' that production company [[Gainsborough Pictures]] decided to give them their own series, so Warner was seen in ''[[Here Come the Huggetts]]'' (1948), ''[[Vote for Huggett]]'' (1949) and ''[[The Huggetts Abroad]]'' (1949). He was one of several names in ''[[Train of Events]]'' and played the governor of a borstal institution in ''[[Boys in Brown]]'' (both 1949).

Warner was by now established as one of the most popular British actors in the country. His stock rose further when he played PC George Dixon in ''[[The Blue Lamp]]'' (1950), the most successful film at the box office that year.<ref>{{cite news |title=Critics Praise Drama: Comedians Win Profits |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18193224 |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |issue=35,264 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=29 December 1950 |access-date=2 September 2017 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref name="warner108">Warner (1975), p. 108.</ref> One observer predicted, "This film will make Jack the most famous policeman in Britain."<ref name="warner108"/>

Warner performed in a comedy ''[[Talk of a Million]]'' (1951) and a thriller ''[[Valley of Eagles]]'' (1951). He had a small part in ''[[Scrooge (1951 film)|Scrooge]]'' (1951) then played a policeman again in ''[[Emergency Call (1952 film)|Emergency Call]]'' (1952). He was one of several stars in ''[[Meet Me Tonight]]'' (1952) and returned to comedy for ''[[Those People Next Door]]'' (1953). He was top-billed in ''[[The Square Ring]]'' and ''[[The Final Test]]'' (both 1953). In the POW film ''[[Albert R.N.]]'' (1953) he was billed beneath [[Anthony Steel (actor)|Anthony Steel]].

Additional thrillers followed: ''[[Bang! You're Dead]]'' (1954) and ''[[Forbidden Cargo (1954 film)|Forbidden Cargo]]'' (1954). He co-starred in the [[Hammer Films|Hammer]] film version of ''[[The Quatermass Xperiment]]'' (1955) and had a cameo-like supporting role as the [[police superintendent]] in the 1955 [[Ealing Studios]] black comedy ''[[The Ladykillers (1955 film)|The Ladykillers]]''.

Even with his success that followed in television, Warner performed in the occasional film such as ''[[Now and Forever (1956 film)|Now and Forever]]'' (1956), ''[[Home and Away (film)|Home and Away]]'' (1956), ''[[Carve Her Name with Pride]]'' (1958) and ''[[Jigsaw (1962 film)|Jigsaw]]'' (1962). His last film appearance was in ''[[Dominique (1978 film)|Dominique]]'' (1978).

===Television===
Although the [[police constable]] he played in ''The Blue Lamp'' was shot dead in the film, the character was revived in 1955 for the [[BBC]] television series ''[[Dixon of Dock Green]]'', which ran until 1976. In the series' later years, Warner's character, long past retirement age, was confined to a less prominent [[Sergeant|desk sergeant]] role. The series had a prime-time slot on Saturday evenings, and always opened with Dixon giving a little soliloquy to the camera, beginning with the words, "Good evening, all". According to Warner's autobiography, ''Jack of All Trades'', Queen [[Elizabeth II]] once visited the television studio where the series was made, and told Warner "that she thought ''Dixon of Dock Green'' had become part of the British way of life".<ref name="warner84">Warner (1975), p. 84.</ref>

[[File:Jack Warner.JPG|thumb|Mr and Mrs Warner photographed at [[the Granville Hotel, Ramsgate]], with proprietors and friends William and Florence Hamilton, ''East Kent Times'', 8 April 1953]]

== Personal life and death ==
In 1933, Warner married company secretary Muriel Winifred ("Mollie"), daughter of independently wealthy Roberts Peters.<ref>Stage and Screen Lives, Michael Billington, Oxford University Press, 2001, p. 349</ref> The couple had no children.<ref>{{Cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-31803|isbn = 978-0-19-861412-8|doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/31803|chapter = Warner, Jack [real name Horace John Waters] (1895–1981), actor|title = Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|year = 2004|last1 = Wenden|first1 = D. J.}}</ref>

Warner was appointed an [[Order of the British Empire|Officer of the Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) in 1965.<ref name="warner201">Warner (1975), p. 201.</ref> In 1973, he was made a Freeman of the City of London. Warner commented in his autobiography that the honour "entitles me to a set of 18th century rules for the conduct of life urging me to be sober and temperate". Warner added, "Not too difficult with Dixon to keep an eye on me!"<ref name="warner207">Warner (1975), p. 207.</ref>

He died, aged 85, of [[pneumonia]] in the [[Royal Masonic Hospital]], Ravenscourt Park, [[Hammersmith]], London, in 1981.<ref name= PhilS>{{cite web |author=Phil S |title=Careful. It might bring a lump in you throat! |url=http://www.newhamstory.co.uk/index.php?PHPSESSID=42s9v0pjaem94cdabe4jkqhb64&topic=2692.msg15935#msg15935 |url-status=dead |date=January 22, 2013 |access-date=August 13, 2020 |website=newhamstory.co.uk |format=message board |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190113062721/http://www.newhamstory.co.uk/index.php?PHPSESSID=42s9v0pjaem94cdabe4jkqhb64&topic=2692.msg15935 |archive-date=January 13, 2019}}</ref>{{Better source|reason=Citation is merely a message board.|date=August 2020}} The characterisation by Warner of Dixon was held in such high regard that officers from [[Paddington Green Police Station]] bore the coffin at his funeral.<ref name="sydney-smith105-106">Sydney-Smith (2002), pp. 105–106.</ref>

Warner is buried in [[East London Cemetery]].

==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! Notes
|-
| rowspan="1"| 1943
| ''[[The Dummy Talks]]''
| Jack
|
|-
| rowspan="1"| 1946
| ''[[The Captive Heart]]''
| Cpl. Horsfall
|
|-
| rowspan="4"| 1947
| ''[[Hue and Cry (film)|Hue and Cry]]''
| Nightingale
|
|-
| ''[[Dear Murderer]]''
| Insp. Penbury
|
|-
| ''[[Holiday Camp (film)|Holiday Camp]]''
| Joe Huggett
|
|-
| ''[[It Always Rains on Sunday]]''
| Detective Sergeant Fothergill
|
|-
| rowspan="4"| 1948
| ''[[Easy Money (1948 film)|Easy Money]]''
| Philip Stafford
|
|-
| ''[[Against the Wind (film)|Against the Wind]]''
| Max Cronk
|
|-
| ''[[My Brother's Keeper (film)|My Brother's Keeper]]''
| George Martin
|
|-
| ''[[Here Come the Huggetts]]''
| rowspan="3"| Joe Huggett
|
|-
| rowspan="4"| 1949
| ''[[Vote for Huggett]]''
|
|-
| ''[[The Huggetts Abroad]]''
|
|-
| ''[[Train of Events]]''
| Jim Hardcastle
| (segment: "The Engine Driver")
|-
| ''[[Boys in Brown]]''
| Governor
|
|-
| rowspan="2"| 1950
| ''The Services Show''
|
| TV Series
|-
| ''[[The Blue Lamp]]''
| PC George Dixon
|
|-
| rowspan="3"| 1951
| ''[[Talk of a Million]]''
| Bartley Murnahan
|
|-
| ''[[Valley of Eagles]]''
| Inspector Peterson
|
|-
| ''[[Scrooge (1951 film)|Scrooge]]''
| Mr. Jorkin
|
|-
| rowspan="3"| 1952
| ''The Monster of Killoon''
| Bill Anderson
| TV movie
|-
| ''[[Emergency Call (1952 film)|Emergency Call]]''
| Inspector Lane
|
|-
| ''[[Meet Me Tonight]]''
| Murdoch: Ways and Means
|
|-
| rowspan="4"| 1953
| ''[[Those People Next Door]]''
| Sam Twigg
|
|-
| ''[[The Square Ring]]''
| Danny Felton
|
|-
| ''[[The Final Test]]''
| Sam Palmer
|
|-
| ''[[Albert R.N.]]''
| Capt. Maddox
|
|-
| rowspan="2"| 1954
| ''[[Bang! You're Dead]]''
| Bonsell
|
|-
| ''[[Forbidden Cargo (1954 film)|Forbidden Cargo]]''
| Maj. Alec White
|
|-
| rowspan="3"| 1955
| ''[[The Quatermass Xperiment]]''
| Insp. Lomax
|
|-
| ''[[The Ladykillers (1955 film)|The Ladykillers]]''
| The Superintendent
|
|-
| ''[[Dixon of Dock Green]]''
| P.C. (later Sgt) George Dixon
| TV series (432 episodes: 1955–1976)
|-
| rowspan="2"| 1956
| ''[[Now and Forever (1956 film)|Now and Forever]]''
| Mr. J. Pritchard
|
|-
| ''[[Home and Away (film)|Home and Away]]''
| George Knowles
|
|-
| rowspan="1"| 1958
| ''[[Carve Her Name with Pride]]''
| Mr. Bushell
|
|-
| rowspan="1"| 1960
| ''Upgreen – And at 'Em''
|
|
|-
| rowspan="1"| 1962
| ''[[Jigsaw (1962 film)|Jigsaw]]''
| Det. Insp. Fred Fellows
|
|-
| rowspan="1"| 1978
| ''[[Dominique (1978 film)|Dominique]]''
| George
| (final film role)
|}

===Box-office ranking===
For a number of years, British film exhibitors voted him among the top ten British stars at the box office via an annual poll in the ''Motion Picture Herald''.
*1948 – 7th-most popular British star<ref>"BRITTEN'S 'RAPE OF LUCRETIA': NEW YORK DIVIDED", ''The Manchester Guardian'' (1901–1959) [Manchester (UK)] 31 Dec 1948: 8.</ref>
*1949 – 10th-most popular British star<ref name="Hope">{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2759831 |title=Bob Hope Takes Lead from Bing In Popularity. |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |date=31 December 1949 |access-date=24 April 2012 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
*1950 – 3rd (5th-most popular overall)<ref>"Success Of British Films", ''[[The Times]]'', 29 December 1950. ''The Times Digital Archive''. Web. 11 July 2012</ref>
*1952 – 8th-most popular British star<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18504988 |title=COMEDIAN TOPS FILM POLL. |newspaper=[[The Sunday Herald (Sydney)|The Sunday Herald]] |location=Sydney |date=28 December 1952 |access-date=27 April 2012 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
*1953 – 7th-most popular British star

==Notes==
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==References==
* Sydney-Smith, Susan (2002). ''Beyond Dixon of Dock Green: Early British Police Series''. London: I. B. Tauris. {{ISBN|1-86064-790-1}}
*Warner, Jack (1975). ''Jack of All Trades: The Autobiography of Jack Warner''. London: W.H. Allen. {{ISBN|0-491-01952-1}}

==External links==
* [http://www.britmovie.net/Actor-A-Z/jack-warner-obe.html Jack Warner] British movie community
* {{IMDb name|0912487|Jack Warner}}

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