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Don Warrington
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Don Warrington is a British television and stage actor, originally from Trinidad and Tobago where he was born in 1952. Warrington was raised in Newcastle upon Tyne, England and joined his local repertory theatre aged 17, where he lost his Geordie accent. His father was Trinidad politician Basil Warrington who died in 1958.
He is chiefly known for playing Philip Smith in Rising Damp, alongside Leonard Rossiter and Richard Beckinsale. He has also appeared in crime drama C.A.T.S. Eyes, as the detective Wallcott, in Red Dwarf, Manchild and portrayed Rassilon in several Doctor Who audio plays. Warrington appeared as "The President (of Great Britain)" in the Doctor Who (2006) episode Rise of the Cybermen. Soon after, he recorded an abridged audio book of the Doctor Who novel The Art of Destruction by Stephen Cole. He is also one of the interviewees on the BBC 2 series Grumpy Old Men. He has also appeared in a series of Kenco coffee advertisements in the UK (2006-7) in which he plays an African coffee plantation owner.
Well known for his suave, cultured voice, Warrington has also performed with the National Theatre, the English Shakespeare Company, Bristol Old Vic and regularly provides voice-overs for both BBC TV and radio.
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