
Gordon Warnecke
Acting • Born 1962-08-24
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gordon Warnecke, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
23 credits
My Beautiful Laundrette
Movie • 1985
Omar Ali

Young Toscanini
Movie • 1988

Goldfish
Movie • 2022
Bobby Persaud

A Fatal Inversion
Movie • 1992
Shiva

A Nice Arrangement
Movie • 1994
Trendy Youth

Scoop
Movie • 2024
Man in Toilet

PINK
Movie

The Hospice
Movie • 1987
Vincent

Venus
Movie • 2017
Papaji

London Unplugged
Movie • 2018
Da'nish's Dad

The Pleasure Principle
Movie • 1992
Policeman

Doctor Who: Mindwarp
Movie • 1986
Tuza

My Beautiful Laundrette
Movie • 2020
Papa / Zaki

London Kills Me
Movie • 1991
Mr G.'s Assistant

Rest Your Head
Movie

Egg Timer
Movie • 2025
Uncle Graham

The Bill
TV • 1984

Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Tuza

Boon
TV • 1986

Virtual Murder
TV • 1992

Love Hurts
TV • 1992

Birds of a Feather
TV • 1989
Ranjith

EastEnders
TV • 1985
Jabber Ahmed