Gordon Warnecke

Gordon Warnecke
Born (1962-08-24) 24 August 1962
London, England, UK
OccupationActor
Years active1985–present

Gordon Warnecke (born 24 August 1962 in London) is a British actor of German and Indo-Guyanese parentage. He is known for his role as Omar in the 1985 film My Beautiful Laundrette, co-starring as the lover of Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis). Other film credits include Franco Zeffirelli's Young Toscanini and Hanif Kureishi's London Kills Me.[1]

Television credits include Boon, Doctor Who (in the serial The Trial of a Time Lord), Only Fools and Horses, Virtual Murder, Birds of a Feather, EastEnders, Holby City and The Bill.[2]

An experienced theatre actor, he has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Court Theatre; he 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 the Trinity Theatre in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. He has written and directed a short film The Magician which was due to be released in March 2012. He also appeared in an episode of Holby City in March 2017.

Since 2014, he has been actor-in-residence at East Barnet School in North London, providing workshops and masterclasses to pupils.[3]

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1985 My Beautiful Laundrette Omar
2017 Venus Papaji
2018 London Unplugged Da'nish's Dad Anthology film

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1986 Boon Hanif Kurtha 10 episodes
Doctor Who Tuza Serial: "Mindwarp"
1987 Bureaucracy of Love Zaffir Khan TV film
1989 Birds of a Feather Ranjith 2 episodes
1990 Eastenders Jabbar 10 episodes
Only Fools and Horses Henry Episode: "The Sky's the Limit"
1992 A Fatal Inversion Shiva Manjusri 3 episodes
1992-2001 The Bill Various 5 episodes
1995 Brookside Dil Palmar 20 episodes
2002 NCS: Manhunt Jimmy Patel Episode: "Tinderbox: Part 2"
2014 Puppy Love Ravi Singh 3 episodes
2017 Holby City George Ridgeley Episode: "Unbreakable"

References

  1. ^ "Gordon Warnecke". IMDb.
  2. ^ "Gordon WarneckeFilmography". Fandango Media.
  3. ^ "Gordon Warnecke – New Actor in Residence". East Barnet School. 29 January 2014. Retrieved 25 October 2019.