Gordon Warnecke
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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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Acting
TV
Doctor Who
as Tuza
1963
Movie
My Beautiful Laundrette
as Omar Ali
1985
Movie
Scoop
as Man in Toilet
2024
TV
EastEnders
as Jabber Ahmed
1985
TV
The Bill
1984
TV
Birds of a Feather
as Ranjith
1989
Movie
London Kills Me
as Mr G.'s Assistant
1991
TV
Boon
1986
Movie
Venus
as Papaji
2017
Movie
Young Toscanini
1988
Movie
A Fatal Inversion
as Shiva
1992
Movie
Doctor Who: Mindwarp
as Tuza
1986
Movie
London Unplugged
as Da'nish's Dad
2018
TV
Love Hurts
1992
Movie
The Pleasure Principle
as Policeman
1992
TV
Virtual Murder
as Doctor Harry
1992
Movie
Goldfish
as Bobby Persaud
2022
Movie
A Nice Arrangement
as Trendy Youth
1994
Movie
The Hospice
as Vincent
1987
Movie
Rest Your Head
Movie
PINK
Movie
My Beautiful Laundrette
as Papa / Zaki
2020
Movie
Egg Timer
as Uncle Graham
2025