John Warwick

For other people named John Warwick, see John Warwick (disambiguation).

John Warwick (4 January 1905 – 10 January 1972) was an Australian television and cinema actor, and television dramatist.

John Warwick, 1950s

Early life

Born John McIntosh Beattle at Bellingen, New South Wales, Australia.

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), 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.

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)
• The Face at the Window (1939)
• Flying Fifty-Five (1939)
• Spare a Copper (1940)
• Danny Boy (1941)
• The Missing Million (1942)
• Talk About Jacqueline (1942)
• While I Live (1947)
• Escape Route (1952)
• Never Look Back (1952)
• Street Corner (1953)
• Bang! You're Dead (1954)
• Up to His Neck (1954)
• The Long Arm (1956)
• Gideon's Day (1958)
• The Square Peg (1959)
• Horrors of the Black Museum (1959)
• The Desperate Man (1959)
• Go to Blazes (1962)
• Cobwebs in Concrete (1968) - TV play - writer
• The Lady from Peking (1975)

Death

He died in Sydney, Australia, in January 1972.

External links

• John Warwick at the Internet Movie Database