

Cast & creator
Best known for EastEnders, Doctor Who, The Bill
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gordon Warnecke, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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film credits
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television credits
24
1963–2025 · acting roles
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average across scored titles
Signature credits
Across film & television
Showing 24 of 24 credits

Jabber Ahmed
1985
Tuza
1963

Ranjith
1989

Man in Toilet
2024
Doctor Harry
1992

Omar Ali
1985Dipak
1994
Mr G.'s Assistant
1991
Papaji
2017
Tuza
1986
Vincent
1987
Shiva
1992

Trendy Youth
1994

Da'nish's Dad
2018
Uncle Graham
2025
Policeman
1992

Papa / Zaki
2020
Bobby Persaud
2022