Gordon Warnecke

Birthday: 1962-08-24
Birthplace: London, England
Gender: Male
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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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Credits

Year Title Character
Pink
2024-03-27 Scoop Man in Toilet
2023-09-01 Goldfish Bobby Persaud
2020-09-20 My Beautiful Laundrette Papa / Zaki
2018-10-05 London Unplugged Da'nish's Dad
2017-10-09 Venus Papaji
1994-06-11 A Nice Arrangement
1992-05-10 A Fatal Inversion Shiva
1992-01-31 The Pleasure Principle Policeman
1988-10-07 Young Toscanini
1987-01-01 The Hospice Vincent
1986-10-25 Doctor Who: Mindwarp Tuza
1985-11-16 My Beautiful Laundrette Omar Ali