"Best. His sisters Elsie and Doris Waters were well-known comedians who usually performed as ""Gert and Daisy"". Warner attended the Coopers' Company's Grammar School for Boys in Mile End, while his sisters both attended the nearby sister school, Coborn School for Girls in Bow. The three children were choristers at St. Leonard's Church, Bromley-by-Bow, and for a time, Warner was the choir's soloist. On leaving school he studied automobile engineering at the Northampton Institute (now part of the City University, London) but being more practical than academic he left after a year to work at the repair facilities of F.W."
"him among the top ten local stars at the box office via an annual poll in the ""Motion Picture Herald"". Jack Warner (actor) Jack Warner, OBE (born Horace John Waters, 24 October 1895 – 24 May 1981) was a British film and television 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 Great Britain's most popular film stars. Warner was born Horace John Waters."
"Jack Warner (actor) Jack Warner, OBE (born Horace John Waters, 24 October 1895 – 24 May 1981) was a British film and television 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 Great Britain's most popular film stars. Warner was born Horace John Waters. in Bromley, Poplar, London, the third child of Edward William Waters, master fulling maker and undertaker's warehouseman, and Maud Mary"
"Dixon of Dock Green Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series about daily life at a London police station, with the emphasis on petty crime, successfully controlled through common sense and human understanding. The central character was a mature and sympathetic police constable, George Dixon, played by Jack Warner in all of the 432 episodes, from 1955 to 1976. Dixon was the embodiment of a typical ""bobby"" who would be familiar with the area and its residents in which he patrolled and often lived there himself. The series contrasted with later programmes such as ""Z-Cars"", which reflected a"
"been killed in ""The Blue Lamp"", parallels the stories of the principal characters in ""Life on Mars"" and ""Ashes to Ashes"", having been explained in the final episode. The ending credits to the show were seen in the 2016 animated film ""Ethel & Ernest"". Dixon of Dock Green Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series about daily life at a London police station, with the emphasis on petty crime, successfully controlled through common sense and human understanding. The central character was a mature and sympathetic police constable, George Dixon, played by Jack Warner in all of the 432"
"was made, where she commented ""that she thought ""Dixon of Dock Green"" had become part of the British way of life"". The regard in which Warner's portrayal of a fictional policeman was held was seen at the actor's funeral at Margate Crematorium on 1 June 1981. Six Margate constables stood as guards-of-honour outside the chapel, where hundreds of fans gathered to pay their respects. Among the mourners were officers from the Kensington District, where Warner had lived in London, and Paddington Green, where the ""Dixon"" series was based. Delegations of policemen attended (some coming from as far away as Wales"
"first appeared), Warner—by now hugely popular—continued to play in comedies such as the successful Huggett family programmes on BBC Radio and films made between 1948 and 1953. Warner's success as Dixon was popular amongst various police forces. He was made an honorary member of both the Margate and Ramsgate Police Forces in the 1950s. Warner said of Dixon of Dock Green: ""It has been a very good meal ticket for twenty-one years—although the taxman has never been far behind."" In his autobiography, ""Jack of All Trades"", Warner tells of a visit by the Queen to the studios where the series"
"actors were carried over into the TV series ""Dixon of Dock Green"", including the resurrected Dixon, still played by Warner. The series ran on BBC One for twenty-one years from 1955 to 1976, with Warner being over eighty by the time of its conclusion. In 1988, Arthur Ellis's satirical BBC Two play ""The Black and Blue Lamp"" had the film characters of Riley (Sean Chapman) PC ""Taffy"" Hughes (Karl Johnson) transported forwards in time into an episode of ""The Filth"", a gritty contemporary police television series, replacing their modern-day counterparts. """" by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill has one panel"
"(1954). He co-starred in the 1955 Hammer film version of ""The Quatermass Xperiment"" and as a police superintendent in the 1955 Ealing Studios black comedy ""The Ladykillers"". 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 later years though, Warner and his long-past-retirement-age character were confined to a less prominent desk sergeant role. The series had a prime-time slot on Saturday evenings, and always opened with Dixon giving a little soliloquy to the"
"and the dim, hapless innocent. Via the 1950 film ""The Blue Lamp"", and ""Dixon of Dock Green"", the TV series developed from it which ran until the mid-1970s, Warner became forever engrained on the British consciousness as George ""Evenin' all"" Dixon, the avuncular upholder of law and order. ""My Brother's Keeper"" is often cited as an example of the dramatic range of which Warner was capable, before he became typecast. Cole's performance too is credited as one of the factors in his unusually smooth transition from child star to adult actor. The film's main weakness is cited as the interpolation"
"television portrayals of the East End was ""Dixon of Dock Green"" (1955–1976). In this programme, Sergeant George Dixon pounded the fictional beat of Dock Green, with a script by Ted Willis. The series arose from the film, ""The Blue Lamp"" (1950) that was based on the real life murder of a policeman based at Leman Street, Aldgate. The television series enjoyed considerable success. The script was based on research at Paddington Green Police Station and filmed at the BBC's Lime Grove Studios, in West London. The characterisation by the lead, Jack Warner, was held in such high regard that officers"
"Mary Dixon, daughter of George (Jack Warner). She also appeared as a woman who tries to join Robin Hood's outlaw band in a 1957 episode of ""The Adventures of Robin Hood"", ""The Bride of Robin Hood"", and won a BAFTA award as Best Actress for her performance in ""The Sextet"" (1972). She starred on the 1958-59 sitcom ""Time Out for Peggy"". She also appeared in an episode of ""Wicked Women"" (1970), the BBC adaptation of Thomas Hardy's ""Wessex Tales"" (1973), ""A Tale of Two Cities"" (1980), ""Private Schulz"" (1982), ""A Murder of Quality"" (1991), ""Duel of Hearts"" (1991), ""Firm Friends"""
"""The Blue Lamp"", starring Dirk Bogarde and Jack Warner, as P.C. George Dixon, a character later revived in the long-running TV drama, ""Dixon of Dock Green"", featured location filming in the Paddington / Notting Hill / Portobello area. It features good shots of these locations in pre-Westway days, and includes a thrilling car chase along largely traffic-free roads, including Portobello Road. In the short story ""The Portobello Road"", Muriel Spark narrates the story of a murderer who, visited by the ghost of his victim, Macbeth-style, tends to constantly go to the Portobello Road market to meet her. ""The Portobello Road"""
"The Blue Lamp The Blue Lamp is a 1950 British police drama, directed by Basil Dearden and starring Jack Warner as veteran PC Dixon, Jimmy Hanley as newcomer PC Mitchell, and Dirk Bogarde as hardened criminal Tom Riley. The title refers to the blue lamps that traditionally hung outside British police stations (and often still do). The film became the inspiration for the 1955–1976 TV series ""Dixon of Dock Green"", where Jack Warner continued to play PC Dixon until he was 80 years old (even though Dixon's murder is the central plot of the original film). The screenplay was written"
"arrangement with the J. Arthur Rank Organisation, with whom he was contracted. At the time, he was best known as the star of ""Here Come the Huggetts"" (1948) and its sequels. Shortly after finishing ""The Quatermass Xperiment"", he made his first appearance on television in the role he is most associated with: the title character in ""Dixon of Dock Green"" (1955–76). Warner plays Lomax in a lighthearted fashion and there is a running joke in the film involving Lomax's futile attempts to find the time to have a shave with his electric razor. Richard Wordsworth was cast by Val Guest"
"more aggressive policing culture. It retained a faithful following throughout its run and was voted second most popular programme on British TV in 1961. The actor Jack Warner was already well known to the public. Born Horace John Waters in London in 1895, he had been a comedian in radio and in his early film career. Starting in the early 1940s, he broadened his range to include dramatic roles, becoming a warmly human character actor in the process. But as well as playing in films with dramatic themes (such as ""The Blue Lamp"" (1950), in which the character George Dixon"
"In 1965, she played Diana Gibbs in ""Other People's Lives"", an instalment of the popular BBC Television police drama ""Dixon of Dock Green"", which starred Jack Warner as Sergeant George Dixon. Later that year, she appeared in the BBC serial drama called ""Mogul"" (subsequently renamed ""The Troubleshooters""), set in the oil industry. She played Lizzie, in a storyline called ""Tosh and Nora"". That same year, 1965, she made her first appearance with Casey Hodgkiss, her best friend, and they starred together in the performance of ""The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail"" along with Jenna Backer and Nicolette Rhoades for their"
"in four of eleven episodes of the re-make of the same series by BBC television in 1963). Kelsall took time out in 1956 to write, adapting for TV a Marie Fawcett story, ""Mister Betts Runs Away"", in the ATV series ""Lilli Palmer Theatre"". He later did the same (in 1968 for Scottish Television) with D. K. Broster's ""The Flight of the Heron"". In 1957, he continued on the small screen for the BBC, taking the role of Regan in one episode (""No Place Like Home"") of the popular television series ""Dixon of Dock Green"", which starred Jack Warner as the"
"camera, beginning with the words, ""Good evening, all"". According to Warner's autobiography, ""Jack of All Trades"", 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"". Warner still made the occasional film such as ""Now and Forever"" (1956), ""Home and Away"" (1956), ""Carve Her Name with Pride"" (1958) and ""Jigsaw"" (1962). His last film appearance was in ""Dominique"" (1978). Warner was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1965. In 1973, he was made"
"the deaths of her own and her new husband's spouses. In 2009, she played Rose Pinchbinder in the children's TV show ""True Jackson, VP"" in the episode ""Keeping Tabs"". In 2012, she guest starred in a season seven episode of ""Dexter"", ""Chemistry"", as the sister of Hannah McKay's dead husband. In June 1995, Warner married writer-director Jonathan Prince. They have a son named Jackson, born in 1997. They are now divorced. Julie Warner Juliet Mia ""Julie"" Warner (born February 9, 1965) is an American actress. Warner was born in Manhattan on February 9, 1965. Her mother, Naomi (née Bernstein), is"
"minutes in duration. There were some changes made before the first series aired. Paddington Green police station became the fictitious Dock Green police station in the East End of London. The character of PC Andy Mitchell became raw new constable PC Andy Crawford (Peter Byrne). According to the first series episode ""Needle in a Haystack"" Dixon is a widower, his wife having died in an air raid during the Second World War, though they had an only daughter, Mary (played by Billie Whitelaw in early episodes, later replaced by Jeanette Hutchinson). They lived in a small mid-terrace house on a"
"Barkow (Merritt Wever), a spunky, but inexperienced, nursing student from a community college, who ""is the perfect foil for Jackie's sharp angles""; Dr. Fitch Cooper (Peter Facinelli), ""a likable 'golden boy' whose calm façade hides a nervous disposition""; and Eddie Walzer (Paul Schulze), a pharmacist with whom Jackie was having an affair at the beginning of the series. Other characters included the officious hospital administrator Mrs. Gloria Akalitus (Anna Deavere Smith), Jackie's bar owner husband Kevin (Dominic Fumusa), their daughters Grace (Ruby Jerins) and Fiona (Daisy Tahan season 1 — Mackenzie Aladjem seasons 2 through 7), and Thor (Stephen Wallem),"
"The character was first previewed in the 2015 autumn trailer, which was released on 18 September 2015, where a receptionist character called Jack was revealed. Brammer's casting was announced by executive producer Oliver Kent in an interview with ""Radio Times"", where he billed Jack as ""flamboyant and outrageous and waspish"". Brammer confirmed on ""Twitter"" that he was only contracted on the show for six months and he left after appearing in fifteen episodes. Kathleen ""Dixie"" Dixon played by Jane Hazlegrove, is an Operational Duty Officer and Paramedic who first appeared on 30 September 2006. Dixie temporarily left the show on"
"and Rigby was sometimes credited as Arthur Rigby Jr. See Wikipedia entry on ""Dixon of Dock Green""; also ""Who's Who in the Theatre,"" 16th edition (1977), page 1065. Arthur Rigby (actor) Arthur Rigby (born Arthur Turner; 27 September 1900 – 25 April 1971) was an English actor and writer. He was best known for playing Sgt Flint on the TV series ""Dixon of Dock Green"", appearing in 253 episodes from 1955 to 1965. He also appeared with ""Dixon"" 's star Jack Warner in the 1949 film ""The Blue Lamp"", which was also the film in which the character of PC"
"David Warner (actor) David Hattersley Warner (born 29 July 1941) is an English actor who played both romantic leads and sinister or villainous characters across a range of media, including stage, film, animation, television and video games. He has a worldwide following for his many appearances in the ""Star Trek"" TV and feature-film franchise. Warner appeared in such films as ""Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment"", ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", ""Tom Jones"", ""The Ballad of Cable Hogue"", ""Straw Dogs"", ""Cross of Iron"", ""The Omen"", ""Holocaust"", ""The 39 Steps"", ""Time After Time"", """", ""Time Bandits"", ""Tron"", ""Titanic"", and various characters"
"Dean Harris Dean Harris (born 30 December 1946) began his acting career in 1966; the early years spent working 'in the round', in weekly and fortnightly repertory theatres, Canadian stock, touring the United Kingdom, Canada and Zimbabwe. His two West End appearances are Judas in ""Godspell"" opposite Robert Lindsay at Wyndham's Theatre (1974) and Dadda Kemp in ""Entertaining Mr Sloane"" opposite Alison Steadman at The Arts (2001). Harris has appeared in 50 television comedies and dramas and has played opposite Peter Cushing in ""Sherlock Holmes"", Jack Warner in ""Dixon of Dock Green"", Dennis Waterman in ""The Sweeney"", Judi Dench in"
"now realize they are in a trap as the girls of Old Town reveal themselves heavily armed on the roof. They and Dwight open fire upon the gangsters until, in Dwight's words, ""the things we're pumping bullets into are nothing but twisted toppling screaming smudges of movement."" The series has been collected into a trade paperback (). The story is one of three from Sin City related in the film ""Sin City"". In the film, Clive Owen plays Dwight, Brittany Murphy plays Shellie, Benicio del Toro plays Jack, Rosario Dawson plays Gail, Devon Aoki plays Miho, Alexis Bledel plays Becky,"
"played by Chris Bisson and Kelli Hollis. The series introduced future regular cast members, including Jack Deam, as Veronica's arsonist brother Marty Fisher, their mother Carol, played by Marjorie Yates. The local pub landlady Jez, played by Lindsey Dawson. Samantha Siddall appeared in one episode as Mandy Maguire, whilst Anthony Flanagan and Warren Donnelly appeared together as local coppers PC Tony and Stan Waterman. The ""main"" storyline during the first series was the romance between Fiona and Steve. However, many other plots took centre stage throughout the series, in particular, the sexual affair between Frank Gallagher and Karen Jackson, despite"
"New Crane Wharves; these are located in Wapping Wall. This episode also shows the bascule bridge across the entrance to Shadwell Basin in Wapping. The warehouse is long gone, now a supermarket. At the end of the 1975 episode ""Conspiracy"", the exterior of Dock Green police station is represented by the Metropolitan Police's then recently built Chiswick police station, on Chiswick High Road in west London. Main cast Other cast members Most of the original 432 episodes of ""Dixon of Dock Green"" are still missing due both to the programme being broadcast live and not recorded in the early days,"
"daughter, Deb-Lyn. Miss Sunflower, who delivered the mail while riding a unicycle, was played by Dale's wife, Jo-Anna Another segment would have Harrigan sitting with his good puppet friend Mr. Green (also played by Deb-Lyn) as they read a book to the children watching. The character originated at Ottawa's CJOH-TV where it ran for its first two seasons. The leprechaun originally appeared on a children's show called Sandbox at 7 a.m. on the CTV network. Dale suggested syndicating the television show, a request that the station manager was not willing to do. Lorne Freed of CKWS-TV invited Dale to syndicate"
"Arthur Rigby (actor) Arthur Rigby (born Arthur Turner; 27 September 1900 – 25 April 1971) was an English actor and writer. He was best known for playing Sgt Flint on the TV series ""Dixon of Dock Green"", appearing in 253 episodes from 1955 to 1965. He also appeared with ""Dixon"" 's star Jack Warner in the 1949 film ""The Blue Lamp"", which was also the film in which the character of PC George Dixon was created. As a writer, Rigby co-wrote the book (with Stanley Lupino), for the musical play ""So This is Love"", which ran for 321 performances at"
"14 May 2018, aged 90. Peter Byrne (actor) Peter James Byrne (29 January 1928 – 14 May 2018) was an English actor and director. He was born in West Ham, Essex; his father was a musician. He was educated at grammar school and trained as an actor at the Italia Conti Stage School. He made his name by playing George Dixon's son-in-law Andy Crawford in the long-running BBC Television serial ""Dixon of Dock Green"" for twenty years from 1955. He was Director of Productions for the Bournemouth Theatre Company (1965–66). Stage appearances has included ""Boeing Boeing"", ""There's a Girl in"
"yet adhering to their parents' wishes. During the first two seasons, cast members from the original series made appearances, including Jennie Garth, Shannen Doherty, Ann Gillespie, Tori Spelling and Joe E. Tata. After the second season, however, they were not featured and were rarely mentioned. The primary connection between the two series was the new series' character of Erin Silver (Jessica Stroup), the half-sister of Kelly Taylor and David Silver from the original series. Tracy has a daughter of her own, Naomi Clark, who dates jock Ethan Ward, brief rival of Dixon, whom she soon breaks up with. Annie and"