Login Register

Acting

Don Warrington

Born May 23, 1951
Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago
75 years old

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).

73 titles
66 Acting
7 Appearances

More at

All Movies Series

Decade Genre Sort by

Acting (66)

Doctor Who (2005)

Mr.Präsident

Hamlet (1996)

Voltimand

Red Dwarf (1988)

Commander Binks

Death in Paradise (2011)

Selwyn Patterson

Going Postal (2010)

Priest of Offler

Lewis (2007)

Marcus Harding

The Five (2016)

Ray Kenwood

Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984)

Stephen Wilson

Casualty (1986)

Trevor

8 ½ Women (1999)

Simon

Beyond Paradise (2023)

Commissioner Selwyn Patterson

To Play the King (1993)

Graham Gaunt

Arabian Nights (2000)

Hari Ben Karim

Land of the Blind (2006)

First Sergeant

Lovejoy (1986)

Felix

Chasing Shadows (2014)

CS Harley Drayton

You, Me and Him (2018)

Charles

Waking the Dead (2001)

Gideon Barclay

Law & Order: UK (2009)

Lighthouse (2000)

Prison Officer Ian Goslet

Rising Damp (1974)

Philip

Fat Slags (2004)

General Secretary

It's a Wonderful Afterlife (2010)

Chief Superintendent

M.I. High (2007)

Bodleian / Crime

Show all (66)

Rising Damp (1980)

Philip Smith

Tube Tales (1999)

Preacher (Steal Away) / Preacher (segment "Steal Away")

The Seventh Scroll (1999)

Colonel Nogo

Futureshock: Comet (2008)

General Harris

The Ark (2015)

Paul

Trial & Retribution (1997)

Willard Pembroke

Believe Nothing (2002)

Chairman

Chiller (1995)

John Meybourne

Babymother (1998)

Luther

New Street Law (2006)

Judge Ken Winyard

The Glass Man (2011)

Anton

Manchild (2002)

Patrick

C.A.T.S. Eyes (1985)

Nigel Beaumont

CI5: The New Professionals (1999)

Triangle (1981)

Alan Lansing

The Lion of Africa (1987)

Henry Piggot

The XYY Man (1976)

Jomo Ibbon

Backup (1995)

Henry IX (2017)

Gilbert

Red Dwarf: Smeg Ups (1994)

Commander Blinks

The Trick (1997)

The Magic Man

Camping (1990)

King Lear (2016)

King Lear

The Crouches (2003)

Bailey

Ignatius Sancho

Six Days of Justice (1972)

Henry Vaughan

The Last Giraffe (1979)

Peter Mwenga

Against the Crowd (1975)

Albert Sharpe II

BBC Comedy Feeds (2012)

Dad

Borderland (1988)

Josh

Carbon Copy (1975)

Albert Sharpe II

Club Havana (1975)

Dave

Expresso (2007)

Mr Jones

God, Smell and Her (2009)

Going Postal 2in1 (2011)

Priest

Manilla Envelopes (2006)

Battersea Gazette Paper Boss

Night Shift (2014)

Don

Number Six (1995)

John Meybourne

Second City Firsts (1973)

Dave

Still We Thrive (2022)

The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words (2009)

Readings (voice)

The Mysteries (1985)

Angel Gabriel

Appearances (7)

Grumpy Old Men (2003)

Self

Policing Paradise (2025)

Self - Narrator

'Oh, Miss Jones!': The Very Best of Leonard Rossiter (1996)

Self

The Unforgettable Leonard Rossiter (2000)

Self

On Christmas Night (2016)

Himself

Princess Anne: The Plot to Kidnap a Royal (2023)

Self - Narrator (voice)

The Toys That Made Christmas (2011)

Self - Child of the '60s