Harold John Warrender (15 November 1903 – 6 May 1953) was a British stage, film and television actor, and radio presenter.[1][2][3][4]
His father was Sir George Warrender, 7th Baronet. His mother was Lady Ethel Maud Ashley Cooper, a singer and patron of music, and personal friend of the composer Edward Elgar and his wife Caroline Alice Roberts.
Warrender became well-known in the 1940s for his part in the popular radio variety show 'Merry-Go-Round' in which he conducted a cash quiz called 'Double or Quits.' The show started as a Forces entertainment which after the war continued in the BBC Light Programme.
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Family
In 1942 Warrender married Constance Elizabeth Fowles, daughter of John Fowles vicar of Rye, Sussex. They had no children.
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1934 | Leave It to Blanche | Guardee | |
1934 | I Spy | NBG | |
1934 | Lady in Danger | Clive | |
1935 | Lazybones | Lord Melton | |
1935 | Mimi | Marcel | |
1935 | Invitation to the Waltz | Duke of Wurtemburg | |
1940 | Contraband | Lt. Cmdr. Ellis, RN | |
1940 | Convoy | Lt. Commander Martin | |
1940 | Sailors Three | Pilot's Mate | |
1948 | Under the Frozen Falls | Mr. Carlington | |
1948 | Scott of the Antarctic | Dr. E.A. Wilson | |
1949 | Warning to Wantons | Count Anton Kardak | |
1949 | Conspirator | Col. Hammerbrook | |
1951 | Pandora and the Flying Dutchman | Geoffrey Fielding | |
1951 | The Six Men | Holroyd | |
1951 | Where No Vultures Fly | Mannering | |
1952 | Ivanhoe | Locksley | |
1953 | Time Bomb | Sir Evelyn Jordan | |
1953 | Intimate Relations | George |
References
- ^ "Harold Warrender". Archived from the original on 16 January 2009.
- ^ "Harold Warrender - Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
- ^ "Harold Warrender - Movies and Filmography - AllMovie". AllMovie.
- ^ McFarlane, Brian (16 May 2016). The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9781526111975 – via Google Books.
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