John Warwick

John Warwick (4 January 1905 – 10 January 1972) was an Australian 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)
• Flying Fifty-Five (1939)
• Spare a Copper (1940)
• Danny Boy (1941)
• The Missing Million (1942)
• While I Live (1947)
• Never Look Back (1952)
• Street Corner (1953)
• Bang! You're Dead (1954)
• Up to His Neck (1954)
• Gideon's Day (1958)
• The Square Peg (1959)
• Horrors of the Black Museum (1959)
• The Desperate Man (1959)
• Go to Blazes (1962)
• The Lady from Peking (1975)

Death

He died in Sydney, Australia, in January 1972.

References

1. ↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/4371
2. ↑ IMDb entry for 'John Warwick'
3. ↑ Moore, John Hammond 'Young Errol Flynn Before Hollywood (2nd Edition, 2011, Pub. Trafford Publishing).
4. ↑ 'John Warwick's filmography on IMDb

External links

• John Warwick at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Warwick, John
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Short description	Australian actor
Date of birth	4 January 1905
Place of birth
Date of death	10 January 1972
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