Don Warrington
Acting • Born 1951-05-23
Biography
Don Warrington MBE (born Donald Williams) is a Trinidadian-born British actor. He is best known for playing Philip Smith in the ITV sitcom Rising Damp (1974–78), and Commissioner Selwyn Patterson in the BBC detective series Death in Paradise (2011–present).
Filmography
70 credits
Red Dwarf: Smeg Ups
Movie • 1994
Commander Blinks
Futureshock: Comet
Movie • 2008
General Harris
Lighthouse
Movie • 2000
Prison Officer Ian Goslet
The Lion of Africa
Movie • 1987
Henry Piggot
'Oh, Miss Jones!': The Very Best of Leonard Rossiter
Movie • 1996
Self
Princess Anne: The Plot to Kidnap a Royal
Movie • 2023
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Last Giraffe
Movie • 1979
Peter Mwenga
Hamlet
Movie • 1996
Voltimand
Rising Damp
Movie • 1980
Philip Smith
Tube Tales
Movie • 1999
Preacher (Steal Away)
Babymother
Movie • 1998
Luther - the don
Land of the Blind
Movie • 2006
First Sergeant
Fat Slags
Movie • 2004
General Secretary
The Trick
Movie • 1997
The Magic Man
Tube Tales
Movie • 1999
Preacher (segment "Steal Away")
Bloodbath at the House of Death
Movie • 1984
Stephen Wilson
Borderland
Movie • 1988
Josh
The Ark
Movie • 2015
Paul
The Glass Man
Movie • 2011
Anton
It's a Wonderful Afterlife
Movie • 2010
Chief Superintendent
Still We Thrive
Movie • 2022
King Lear
Movie • 2016
King Lear
You, Me and Him
Movie • 2018
Charles
8 ½ Women
Movie • 1999
Simon
Manilla Envelopes
Movie • 2006
Battersea Gazette Paper Boss
The Toys That Made Christmas
Movie • 2011
Self - Child of the '60s
Club Havana
Movie • 1975
Dave
Carbon Copy
Movie • 1975
Albert Sharpe II
Night Shift
Movie
Don
On Christmas Night
Movie • 2016
Himself
The Unforgettable Leonard Rossiter
Movie • 2000
Self
Camping
Movie • 1990
God, Smell and Her
Movie • 2009
Believe Nothing
TV • 2002
Chairman
Rising Damp
TV • 1974
Philip
Lovejoy
TV • 1986
Felix
Law & Order: UK
TV • 2009
The Crouches
TV • 2003
Bailey
Red Dwarf
TV • 1988
Commander Binks
Trial & Retribution
TV • 1997
CI5: The New Professionals
TV • 1999
New Street Law
TV • 2006
Manchild
TV • 2002
Patrick
Between the Covers
TV • 2020
Self
Backup
TV • 1995
Triangle
TV • 1981
Alan Lansing
New Street Law
TV • 2006
Judge Ken Winyard
London
TV • 2004
Ignatius Sancho
Chasing Shadows
TV • 2014
CS Harley Drayton
The Mysteries
TV • 1985
Angel Gabriel
The Five
TV • 2016
Ray Kenwood
Waking the Dead
TV • 2001
Gideon Barclay
To Play the King
TV • 1993
Graham Gaunt
Death in Paradise
TV • 2011
Selwyn Patterson
Henry IX
TV • 2017
Gilbert
Doctor Who
TV • 2005
Mr.Präsident
Casualty
TV • 1986
Trevor
Going Postal
TV • 2010
Priest of Offler
Arabian Nights
TV • 2000
Hari Ben Karim
The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words
TV • 2009
Readings (voice)
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
TV • 2011
Self - Participant
The Seventh Scroll
TV • 1999
Colonel Nogo
Grumpy Old Men
TV • 2003
Self
Beyond Paradise
TV • 2023
Commissioner Selwyn Patterson
C.A.T.S. Eyes
TV • 1985
Nigel Beaumont
BBC Comedy Feeds
TV • 2012
Dad
Chiller
TV • 1995
John Meybourne
Remembers…
TV • 2022
Self
M.I. High
TV • 2007
Bodleian / Crime
The XYY Man
TV • 1976
Jomo Ibbon