Harold Warrender Explained

Harold Warrender
Birth Name:Harold John Warrender
Birth Date:15 November 1903
Birth Place:London, England, United Kingdom
Death Place:Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
Occupation:actor
Yearsactive:19281953

Harold John Warrender (15 November 1903  - 6 May 1953) was a British stage, film and television actor, and radio presenter.[1] [2] [3] [4]

His father was Sir George Warrender, 7th Baronet. His mother was Lady Ethel Maud Ashley Cooper, a singer and patron of music, and personal friend of the composer Edward Elgar and his wife Caroline Alice Roberts.

Warrender became well-known in the 1940s for his part in the popular radio variety show 'Merry-Go-Round' in which he conducted a cash quiz called 'Double or Quits.' The show started as a Forces entertainment which after the war continued in the BBC Light Programme.

Family

In 1942 Warrender married Constance Elizabeth Fowles, daughter of John Fowles vicar of Rye, Sussex. They had no children.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1934Leave It to Blanche Guardee
1934I Spy NBG
1934Lady in Danger Clive
1935Lazybones Lord Melton
1935Mimi Marcel
1935Invitation to the Waltz Duke of Wurtemburg
1940Contraband Lt. Cmdr. Ellis, RN
1940Convoy Lt. Commander Martin
1940Sailors Three Pilot's Mate
1948Under the Frozen Falls Mr. Carlington
1948Scott of the Antarctic Dr. E.A. Wilson
1949Warning to Wantons Count Anton Kardak
1949Conspirator Col. Hammerbrook
1951Pandora and the Flying Dutchman Geoffrey Fielding
1951The Six Men Holroyd
1951Where No Vultures Fly Mannering
1952Ivanhoe Locksley
1953Time Bomb Sir Evelyn Jordan
1953Intimate Relations George

References

  1. Web site: Harold Warrender. https://web.archive.org/web/20090116114110/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/20007. dead. 2009-01-16.
  2. Web site: Harold Warrender - Theatricalia. theatricalia.com.
  3. Web site: Harold Warrender - Movies and Filmography - AllMovie. AllMovie.
  4. Book: McFarlane, Brian. The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition. 16 May 2016. Oxford University Press. 9781526111975. Google Books.