Gordon Warnecke
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1962-08-24 (62 years old)
Place of Birth
London, England
Gordon Warnecke
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gordon Warnecke (born 24 August 1962 in London) is an English actor of Indo-Guyanese and German descent.
He is perhaps best known for his role as Omar in the 1985 film My Beautiful Laundrette, costarring as the lover of Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis). Other film credits include Franco Zeffirelli's Young Toscanini and Hanif Kureishi's London Kills Me.
Television credits include: Boon, Doctor Who (in the serial Mindwarp), Only Fools and Horses, Virtual Murder, Birds of a Feather, EastEnders and The Bill.
An experienced theatre actor, he has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Court Theatre, and most recently returned to the stage with a national tour of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People for Tara Arts, and two new contemporary adaptations of Christmas productions at Trinity Theatre in Kent. He is currently filming the Welsh TV series The Cockle Farmer.
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Acting
(2024)
Scoop
as Man in Toilet
(2023)
Goldfish
as Bobby Persaud
(2020)
My Beautiful Laundrette
as Papa / Zaki
(2018)
London Unplugged
as Da'nish's Dad
(2017)
Venus
as Papaji
(1994)
(1992)
The Pleasure Principle
as Policeman
(1992)
A Fatal Inversion
as Shiva
(1991)
London Kills Me
as Mr G.'s Assistant
(1988)
(1987)
The Hospice
as Vincent
(1986)
Doctor Who: Mindwarp
as Tuza
(1985)
My Beautiful Laundrette
as Omar Ali