Don Warrington
Acting
Biography
Don Warrington MBE (born Donald Williams) is a Trinidadian-born British actor. He is best known for playing Philip Smith in the ITV sitcom Rising Damp (1974–78), and Commissioner Selwyn Patterson in the BBC detective series Death in Paradise (2011–present).
As actor 76
Doctor Who
2005
Death in Paradise
2011
Casualty
1986
Lewis
2007
Red Dwarf
1988
Waking the Dead
2001
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
Law & Order: UK
2009
Remembers…
2022
Beyond Paradise
2023
M.I. High
2007
Trial & Retribution
1997
Triangle
1981
Lovejoy
1986
Between the Covers
2020
Second City Firsts
1973
The Five
2016
Going Postal
2010
Policing Paradise
2025
Rising Damp
1974
BBC Comedy Feeds
2012
Chiller
1995
Arabian Nights
2000
Believe Nothing
2002
New Street Law
2006
The XYY Man
1976
Hamlet
1996
Backup
1995
Six Days of Justice
1972
CI5: The New Professionals
1999
C.A.T.S. Eyes
1985
Grumpy Old Men
2003
Manchild
2002
To Play the King
1993
8 ½ Women
1999
Chasing Shadows
2014
The Crouches
2003
Rising Damp
1980
Going Postal 2in1
2011
Tube Tales
1999
The Ark
2015
The Seventh Scroll
1999
Land of the Blind
2006
Fat Slags
2004
Expresso
2007
London
2004
Club Havana
1975
The Mysteries
1985
Futureshock: Comet
2008
You, Me and Him
2018
Manilla Envelopes
2006
Bloodbath at the House of Death
1984
Against the Crowd
1975
It's a Wonderful Afterlife
2010
Number Six
1995
Henry IX
2017
Lighthouse
2000
The Trick
1997
Carbon Copy
1975
God, Smell and Her
2009
The Lion of Africa
1987
The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words
2009
King Lear
2016
'Oh, Miss Jones!': The Very Best of Leonard Rossiter
1996
Babymother
1998
Camping
1990
Still We Thrive
2022
The Toys That Made Christmas
2011
The Glass Man
2011
The Last Giraffe
1979
Red Dwarf: Smeg Ups
1994
Night Shift
2014
Princess Anne: The Plot to Kidnap a Royal
2023
The Unforgettable Leonard Rossiter
2000
Borderland
1988
On Christmas Night
2016