Personal Info
Birth date
1951-05-23 (74 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago
Also known as
دان وارینگتون
Don Warrington
Biography
Don Warrington MBE (born Donald Williams, 23 May 1951) 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
Doctor Who
7.6
Overview:
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.Death in Paradise
7.453
Overview:
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.Waking the Dead
7.2
Overview:
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.Casualty
6.1
Overview:
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.Red Dwarf
8.1
Overview:
The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.Beyond Paradise
6.634
Overview:
After leaving paradise and seeking a quieter life, Humphrey has taken a job as Detective Inspector in his fiancée Martha's hometown. But with the high crime rate, maybe things will be louder than expected.Trial & Retribution
6.769
Overview:
Trial & Retribution is a feature-length ITV police procedural television drama series that began in 1997. It was devised and written by Lynda La Plante as a follow-on from her successful television series Prime Suspect. Each episode of the Trial & Retribution series is broadcast over two nights. The 2008 series 10 had 10 episodes, the longest run of the drama so far. The latest series was number 12 which aired in February 2009.Law & Order: UK
6.974
Overview:
Adapted from the hit US series, Law & Order: UK follows a team of police detectives and prosecutors representing the public interest in the criminal justice system.Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
5
Overview:
Antiques experts accompany celebrities on a road trip around the UK searching for treasures and competing to make the most money at auctionLovejoy
7.35
Overview:
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.M.I. High
6.2
Overview:
A team of undercover teenage spies working for the fictional British secret intelligence agency MI9 who have to balance their school life with their jobs as secret agents.The Five
6.892
Overview:
When they were twelve years old, Mark, Pru, Danny and Slade were out together in the park. Mark’s five-year-old brother, Jesse, was annoying them. They were mean – told him to get lost. Jesse ran away. He was gone. Never seen again. Twenty years later, Danny – now a detective – learns some shocking news. Jesse’s DNA has been found at a murder scene. He is alive and out there. Somewhere.Rhythm of Life
6.5
Overview:
A star-studded short film encouraging people to get COVID-19 vaccines and featuring the song "The Rhythm of Life" from the 1966 classic musical, Sweet Charity.Arabian Nights
6.745
Overview:
Targeted for assassination by his first wife and his evil brother, a young sultan must marry by the next full moon or he will lose his kingdom. His uncertainty over his newfound bride causes her to stall the sultan with a series of fantastic stories to ease the tension and stall her impending execution.Between the Covers
5.5
Overview:
Sara Cox hosts this new book club bringing the nation together through sharing the pleasure of reading. Each edition features a celebrity panel discussing their favourite book and two review sections.Hamlet
7.33
Overview:
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.The Seventh Scroll
5.6
Overview:
Past and present intertwine when an archaeologist and her husband find a mysterious child on the banks of the Nile and adopt him. But the more they learn about the lost tomb of Pharaoh Mamose, the more Hapi, the little child, is plagued by frightening visions. Soon it is clear that powerful forces are trying to prevent the couple from finding the tomb.The Ark
5.7
Overview:
Noah, a farmer and family man, is instructed by an angel to build an ark in the middle of a desert in order to save both his family and the faithful from a devastating flood. A seemingly impossible task, especially when his sons refuse to believe him and help, Noah risks ridicule and humiliation from the degenerate townsfolk as well as his loving but exasperated family, in his quest to carry out his God-given task.It's a Wonderful Afterlife
4.773
Overview:
Indian mother Mrs Sethi's obsession with marrying off her daughter turns murderous. With jokes that routinely miss the mark and cringeworthy slapstick, this black comedy farce shouldn't work. Somehow, though, it does.The Last Giraffe
NYR
Overview:
An engaging tale of the efforts of a real-life American wildlife photographer and her safari guide husband to save the endangered Rothschild giraffe of Kenya by adopting an orphaned animal whose mother had been slain by a notorious poacher.Going Postal
7.162
Overview:
Moist von Lipwig is a con-man with a particular talent-- he is utterly unremarkable. When his execution is stayed in Terry Pratchett's remarkable Discworld, he must work off his debt to society as the land's head Postman. Things are not always as they seem, and soon Lipwig is delivering mail for his very life!Rising Damp
7.5
Overview:
Set in a seedy bedsit, the cowardly landlord Rigsby has his conceits debunked by his long suffering tenants.CI5: The New Professionals
6.5
Overview:
In this 1998 re-imagining of the original The Professionals TV show, CI5 now has an international remit, being jointly funded by the governments of the UK, U.S.A., Japan, Germany and France, and called upon to deal with terrorism and espionage on an international scale. An all-new cast features the original dynamic of two gung ho field agents (these a former U.S. Navy Seal and a British secret service man) and a cantankerous boss, but adds the dynamic of a female agent, a computer and martial arts expert who came to CI5 by way of the Canadian Secret Service. Expectations were high, but the new show failed to capture the imagination of viewers and only one season was made.Land of the Blind
5.8
Overview:
A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.Triangle
5.25
Overview:
Triangle was a BBC Television soap opera in the early 1980s, set aboard a North Sea ferry which sailed from Felixstowe to Gothenburg and Gothenburg to Amsterdam. A third imaginary leg existed between Amsterdam and Felixstowe to justify the programme title, but this was not operated by the ferry company. The show ran for three series before being cancelled, but is still generally remembered as "some of the most mockable British television ever produced". The scripts involved clichéd relationships and stilted dialogue, making the show the butt of several jokes - particularly on Terry Wogan's morning Radio 2 programme - which caused some embarrassment to the BBC. In 1992, the BBC screened TV Hell, an evening of programming devoted to the worst television had to offer, and the first episode of Triangle was broadcast as part of the line-up. The ferry used in the first series was the Tor Line's MS Tor Scandinavia. In the second and third series this was replaced by the DFDS vessel Dana Anglia probably because she had a less intensive schedule and the longer time she spent in port made on-board filming easier.C.A.T.S. Eyes
5.75
Overview:
C.A.T.S. Eyes is a British television series made by TVS for ITV between 1985 and 1987. A spin-off of the series The Gentle Touch, Maggie Forbes leads an all-female detective agency called "Eyes" that secretly operates as a Home Office team known as C.A.T.S. (Covert Activities Thames Section).Manchild
4
Overview:
Stockbroker Terry, art expert Patrick, orthodontist James and decking supremo Gary have been friends since their schooldays. Now, having all reached the age of 50, they are intent on reliving the freedom of their youth, buying hip new clothes and dating beautiful younger women, but despite their best efforts, the concerns of middle-age still catch up with them.To Play the King
8
Overview:
Francis Urquhart's survival at the top is threatened by the new king's populist agenda.Fat Slags
3
Overview:
Leaving their hometown of Fulchester in the North of England, Sandra and Tracey head for the bright lights of London, shagging and boozing their way to fame and fortune.Lighthouse
4.8
Overview:
A prison ship on its way to a remote island prison runs aground on rocks and sinks. Mixed survivors of cons and prison guards struggle ashore, only to discover to their horror that another survivor got there first - the murderous & psychotic Leo Rook. Stranded, with no means of escape or call for help, the survivors must face a night of terror as they struggle to survive.Acting
TBANight Shift as Don
2023Princess Anne: The Plot to Kidnap a Royal as Self - Narrator (voice)
2023Beyond Paradise (1 Episode) as Commissioner Selwyn Patterson
2022Still We Thrive as Unknown
2021Rhythm of Life as Self
2020Between the Covers (1 Episode) as Self
2018You, Me and Him as Charles
2017Henry IX (3 Episodes) as Gilbert
2016On Christmas Night as Himself
2016King Lear as King Lear
2016The Five (4 Episodes) as Ray Kenwood
2015The Ark as Paul
2014Chasing Shadows (4 Episodes) as CS Harley Drayton
2012BBC Comedy Feeds (1 Episode) as Dad
2011The Toys That Made Christmas as Self - Child of the '60s
2011Death in Paradise (112 Episodes) as Selwyn Patterson
2011Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (1 Episode) as Self - Participant
2011The Glass Man as Anton
2010Going Postal (2 Episodes) as Priest of Offler
2010It's a Wonderful Afterlife as Chief Superintendent
2009The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words (1 Episode) as Readings (voice)
2009Law & Order: UK (1 Episode) as Unknown
2009God, Smell and Her as Unknown
2008Futureshock: Comet as General Harris
2007M.I. High (1 Episode) as Unknown
2006New Street Law (6, 6 Episode) as Unknown, Judge Ken Winyard
2006Land of the Blind as First Sergeant
2006Manilla Envelopes as Unknown
2005Doctor Who (1 Episode) as Mr.Präsident
2004Fat Slags as General Secretary
2004London (3 Episodes) as Ignatius Sancho
2003Grumpy Old Men (14 Episodes) as Self
2003The Crouches (12 Episodes) as Bailey
2002Believe Nothing (4 Episodes) as Chairman
2002Manchild (15 Episodes) as Patrick
2001Waking the Dead (2 Episodes) as Gideon Barclay
2000The Unforgettable Leonard Rossiter as Self
2000Arabian Nights (2 Episodes) as Hari Ben Karim
2000Lighthouse as Prison Officer Ian Goslet
1999Tube Tales as Preacher (Steal Away), Preacher (segment "Steal Away")
1999CI5: The New Professionals (1 Episode) as Unknown
1999The Seventh Scroll (2 Episodes) as Colonel Nogo
19998 ½ Women as Simon
1998Babymother as Luther - the don
1997Trial & Retribution (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1997The Trick as The Magic Man
1996Hamlet as Voltimand
1996'Oh, Miss Jones!': The Very Best of Leonard Rossiter as Self
1995Backup (1 Episode) as Unknown
1995Chiller (1 Episode) as John Meyburne
1994Red Dwarf: Smeg Ups as Commander Blinks
1993To Play the King (4 Episodes) as Graham Gaunt
1990Camping as Unknown
1988Borderland as Josh
1988Red Dwarf (1 Episode) as Commander Binks
1987The Lion of Africa as Henry Piggot
1986Casualty (7 Episodes) as Trevor
1986Lovejoy (1 Episode) as Felix
1985The Mysteries (3 Episodes) as Angel Gabriel
1985C.A.T.S. Eyes (18 Episodes) as Nigel Beaumont
1984Bloodbath at the House of Death as Stephen Wilson
1981Triangle (26 Episodes) as Alan Lansing
1980Rising Damp as Philip Smith
1979The Last Giraffe as Peter Mwenga
1975Club Havana as Dave
1975Carbon Copy as Albert Sharpe II
1974Rising Damp (28 Episodes) as Philip