Don Warrington
Department: Acting
Biography
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).
Known For
Red Dwarf: Smeg Ups
1994
Futureshock: Comet
2008
Lighthouse
2000
The Lion of Africa
1987
'Oh, Miss Jones!': The Very Best of Leonard Rossiter
1996
Princess Anne: The Plot to Kidnap a Royal
2023
The Last Giraffe
1979
Hamlet
1996
Rising Damp
1980
Tube Tales
1999
Babymother
1998
Land of the Blind
2006
Fat Slags
2004
The Trick
1997
Tube Tales
1999
Bloodbath at the House of Death
1984
Borderland
1988
The Ark
2015
The Glass Man
2011
It's a Wonderful Afterlife
2010
Still We Thrive
2022
King Lear
2016
You, Me and Him
2018
8 ½ Women
1999
Manilla Envelopes
2006
The Toys That Made Christmas
2011
Club Havana
1975
Carbon Copy
1975
Night Shift
—
On Christmas Night
2016
The Unforgettable Leonard Rossiter
2000
Camping
1990
God, Smell and Her
2009
Believe Nothing
2002
Rising Damp
1974
Lovejoy
1986
Law & Order: UK
2009
The Crouches
2003
Red Dwarf
1988
Trial & Retribution
1997
CI5: The New Professionals
1999
New Street Law
2006
Manchild
2002
Between the Covers
2020
Backup
1995
Triangle
1981
New Street Law
2006
London
2004
Chasing Shadows
2014
The Mysteries
1985
The Five
2016
Waking the Dead
2001
To Play the King
1993
Death in Paradise
2011
Henry IX
2017
Doctor Who
2005
Casualty
1986
Going Postal
2010
Arabian Nights
2000
The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words
2009
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
The Seventh Scroll
1999
Grumpy Old Men
2003
Beyond Paradise
2023
C.A.T.S. Eyes
1985
BBC Comedy Feeds
2012
Chiller
1995
Remembers…
2022
M.I. High
2007
The XYY Man
1976