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Jack Warner (born Horace John Waters) OBE (24 October 1895 – 24 May 1981) was an English film and television actor. He is closely associated with the role of PC George Dixon, which he played until the age of eighty, but he was also for some years one of Great Britain's most popular film stars. ==Life and career== Warner was born Horace John Waters.〔Warner (1975), p. 2.〕 in Bromley, Poplar, London, the third child of Edward William Waters, master fulling maker and undertaker's warehouseman, and Maud Mary Best.〔''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. OUP Oxford.〕 His sisters Elsie and Doris Waters were well-known comediennes who usually performed as "Gert and Daisy".〔Warner (1975), pp. 74–75.〕 Warner attended the Coopers' Company's Grammar School for Boys in Mile End,〔Warner (1975), p. 10.〕 while his sisters both attended the nearby sister school, Coborn School for Girls in Bow. The three children were choristers at St. Leonard's Church, Bromley-by-Bow, and for a time, Warner was the choir's soloist.〔 On leaving school he studied automobile engineering at the Northampton Institute (now part of the City University, London) but being more practical than academic he left after a year to work at the repair facilities of F.W.Berwick and Company in Balham,〔 where he started by sweeping the floors for 2d per hour.〔''Tell Me Another'', personal anecdotes as told to Dick Hills. Southern Television, first broadcast 10 August 1977.〕 Frederick William Berwick became a partner in the Anglo-French automobile manufacturing company Sizaire-Berwick and in August 1913 Warner was sent to work as a mechanic in Paris. He drove completed chassis to the coast from where they were shipped to England, road-testing them en-route He acquired a working knowledge of French which stood him in good stead throughout his life, an imitation of Maurice Chevalier became a part of his repertoire.〔 During the First World War he served in France as a driver in the Royal Flying Corps and was awarded the meritorious service medal in 1918. He returned to England and the motor trade in 1919, graduating from hearses to occasional car racing at Brooklands. He was over thirty before he became a professional entertainer.〔 Warner first made his name in music hall and radio. By the early years of the Second World War, he was nationally known and starred in a BBC radio comedy show ''Garrison Theatre'', invariably opening with, "A Monologue Entitled...". He became known to cinema audiences as the patriarch in a trio of popular post-World War II family films beginning with ''Here Come the Huggetts''. He also co-starred in the 1955 Hammer film version of ''The Quatermass Xperiment'' and as a police superintendent in the 1955 Ealing Studios black comedy ''The Ladykillers''. It was in 1949 that Warner first played the role for which he would be remembered, PC George Dixon, in the film ''The Blue Lamp''.〔Warner (1975), p. 108.〕 One observer predicted, "This film will make Jack the most famous policeman in Britain".〔 Although the police constable he played was shot dead in the film, the character was revived in 1955 for the BBC television series ''Dixon of Dock Green'', which ran until 1976. In later years though, Warner and his long-past-retirement-age character were confined to a less prominent desk sergeant role. The series had a prime-time slot on Saturday evenings, and always opened with Dixon giving a little soliloquy to the camera, beginning with the words, "Good evening, all". According to Warner's autobiography, ''Jack of All Trades'', Elizabeth II once visited the television studio where the series was made and told Warner "that she thought ''Dixon of Dock Green'' had become part of the British way of life".〔Warner (1975), p. 84.〕 Warner was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1965.〔Warner (1975), p. 201.〕 In 1973, he was made a Freeman of the City of London. Warner commented in his autobiography that the honour "entitles me to a set of 18th century rules for the conduct of life urging me to be sober and temperate". Warner added, "Not too difficult with Dixon to keep an eye on me!"〔Warner (1975), p. 207.〕 He died of pneumonia in London in 1981, aged 85. The characterisation by Warner of Dixon was held in such high regard that officers from Paddington Green Police Station bore the coffin at his funeral.〔Sydney-Smith (2002), pp. 105–106.〕 Warner is buried in East London Cemetery. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jack Warner (actor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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