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Actor

Gordon Warnecke

Acting

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23

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Movies: 16Series: 7

TMDB ID: 68718

IMDb ID: nm0912376

Known for: Acting

Born: August 24, 1962

Age: 63

Place of birth: London, England

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1963 - 2025

Years active: 63

Average TMDB rating: 6.37

Wikidata: Q3110935

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.