Jack Warner

Jack Warner, born Horace John Waters, embodies a kind of British decency on screen that I find genuinely moving. He inhabited PC George Dixon from the 1950 film The Blue Lamp through Dixon of Dock Green until 1976, fusing actor and role across more than two decades, a feat very few performers ever achieve. Though he was one of Britain's biggest film stars and an OBE, the part he is remembered for is a kindly neighbourhood policeman, and that gap between fame and humility reveals the man. Living from 1895 to 1981, he feels like a steady moral presence in British screen history. I hold him in real esteem.

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Name (English)

Jack Warner

Name (Japanese)

ジャック・ワーナー

Reading

じゃっく・わーなー

Born

October 24, 1895 – May 24, 1981

Origin

London, United Kingdom

Occupation

actor / stage actor / film actor / television actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Goat

Awards & achievements

• Officer of the Order of the British Empire

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Warner%20(actor)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1566430

Tags

• actor
• stage actor
• film actor

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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