Actor
Gordon Warnecke
Born August 24, 1962 in London, England
16 films
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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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First watchMy Beautiful Laundrette19856.7as Omar AliA young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.View filmEssential films
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16 films as actor- TBAPINK
- TBARest Your Head
- 2025Egg TimerUncle Graham
- 2024ScoopMan in Toilet
- 2022GoldfishBobby Persaud
- 2020My Beautiful LaundrettePapa / Zaki
- 2018London UnpluggedDa'nish's Dad
- 2017VenusPapaji
- 1994A Nice ArrangementTrendy Youth
- 1992A Fatal InversionShiva
- 1992The Pleasure PrinciplePoliceman
- 1991London Kills MeMr G.'s Assistant
- 1988Young Toscanini
- 1987The HospiceVincent
- 1986Doctor Who: MindwarpTuza
- 1985My Beautiful LaundretteOmar Ali