Gordon Warnecke
Born: 1962-08-24 in London, England
Known For: Acting
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
2025
- Egg Timer as Uncle Graham
2024
- Scoop as Man in Toilet
2022
- Goldfish as Bobby Persaud
2020
- My Beautiful Laundrette as Papa / Zaki
2018
- London Unplugged as Da'nish's Dad
2017
- Venus as Papaji
1994
- A Nice Arrangement as Trendy Youth
1992
- Virtual Murder as Doctor Harry
- Love Hurts
- A Fatal Inversion as Shiva
- The Pleasure Principle as Policeman
1991
- London Kills Me as Mr G.'s Assistant
1989
- Birds of a Feather as Ranjith
1988
1987
- The Hospice as Vincent
1986
- Boon
- Doctor Who: Mindwarp as Tuza
1985
- EastEnders as Jabber Ahmed
- My Beautiful Laundrette as Omar Ali
1984
1963
- Doctor Who as Tuza