Name John Warwick Role Film actor | Spouse Molly Raynor (m. ?–1972) | |
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Movies and TV shows Horrors of the Black Museum, The Squatter's Daughter, The Face at the Window, Police Surgeon, Dancing with Crime Similar People Arthur Crabtree, Ken G Hall, John Paddy Carstairs, Basil Dearden, Anthony Buckley | ||
John Warwick (4 January 1905 – 10 January 1972) was an Australian television and cinema actor, and television dramatist.
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Early life
He was born John McIntosh Beattie (many sources give "Beattle") at Bellingen, New South Wales, Australia. He tock the name Warwick from his secondary school.
Acting career
Warwick had an extensive career over 40 years, beginning in Australian cinema in the early 1930s (he is attributed with introducing Errol Flynn, a personal friend in Sydney, to acting by bringing him along to a casting session when In the Wake of the Bounty was being filmed), then in British cinema in the late 1930s-1940s and television from the 1950s. In the 1960s he returned to Australia and ended his career in television drama and cinema there.
Personal life
He was married twice, first to Dorothy Georgina Beattie, they field for divorce in 1927 and the decree absolute was granted in 1929, and secondly to Molly Rayner (1903-1976)
Death
He died in Sydney, Australia, on 10 January 1972.