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Gordon Warnecke

Gordon Warnecke

​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.

Known for

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2025 • Uncle Graham
Scoop
Scoop
2024 • Man in Toilet
Goldfish
Goldfish
2022 • Bobby Persaud
My Beautiful Laundrette
My Beautiful Laundrette
2020 • Papa / Zaki
London Unplugged
London Unplugged
2018 • Da'nish's Dad
Venus
Venus
2017 • Papaji
A Nice Arrangement
A Nice Arrangement
1994 • Trendy Youth
A Fatal Inversion
A Fatal Inversion
1992 • Shiva

Full filmography

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Egg Timer
2025 • Uncle Graham
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Scoop
Scoop
2024 • Man in Toilet
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Goldfish
Goldfish
2022 • Bobby Persaud
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London Unplugged
London Unplugged
2018 • Da'nish's Dad
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Venus
Venus
2017 • Papaji
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A Nice Arrangement
A Nice Arrangement
1994 • Trendy Youth
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London Kills Me
London Kills Me
1991 • Mr G.'s Assistant
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The Hospice
The Hospice
1987 • Vincent
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PINK
PINK
Unknown year
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Gordon Warnecke – Biography, Known For & Filmography