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