John Warwick

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Australian actor (1905–1972)

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::summary Australian actor (1905–1972) ::

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imageJohn Warwick.jpg
nameJohn Warwick
birth_nameJohn McIntosh Beattie
birth_placeBellingen, New South Wales, Australia
birth_date4 January 1905
occupationActor, dramatist
death_placeSydney, New South Wales, Australia
death_date10 January 1972
spouseMolly Raynor
years_active1924-1972
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| image =John Warwick.jpg | name = John Warwick | birth_name= John McIntosh Beattie | birth_place= Bellingen, New South Wales, Australia | birth_date = 4 January 1905 | occupation = Actor, dramatist | death_place = Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | death_date= 10 January 1972 | spouse = Molly Raynor | years_active = 1924-1972

John McIntosh Beattie (some sources give Beattle) (4 January 1905 – 10 January 1972), known professionally as John Warwick, was an Australian actor and television dramatist. who was also active in the United Kingdom and New Zealand.

Acting career

Warwick had an extensive career over 40 years, he worked in theatre from the late 1920s and beginning his career in Australian cinema in the early 1930s (he is attributed with introducing Errol Flynn, a personal acquaintance in Sydney, to acting by bringing him along to a casting session when In the Wake of the Bounty was being filmed).

After relocating to England he was trained as an actor at Harrogate theatre with the repertory company "The White Rose Players",

Personal life and death

He was married twice, first to Dorothy Georgina Beattie (filed for divorce in 1927 and decree absolute granted in 1929), and secondly to New Zealand-born actress Molly Raynor (1903–1976).

Warwick died on 10 January 1972, aged 67 in Sydney

Partial filmography

Writing credits

References

References

  1. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090114122927/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/4371 BFI.org]
  2. (11 August 1947). "JOHN WARWICK HOME". [[Warwick Daily News]].
  3. Moore, John Hammond 'Young Errol Flynn Before Hollywood (2nd Edition, 2011, Pub. Trafford Publishing).
  4. Vagg, Stephen. (10 December 2025). "Forgotten Australian Films: In the Wake of the Bounty".
  5. 'John Warwick Makes Good', 'The Sun' (Published Sydney), 14 November 1937, P.5
  6. (12 October 1929). "In Divorce". Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 – 1954).
  7. "John McIntosh Beattie (or Warwick) - Date of Death 10/01/1972, Granted on 20/11/1972".
  8. Vagg, Stephen. (23 August 2025). "Forgotten Australian Films: The Squatter’s Daughter".
  9. [http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/106402 ''Cobwebs in Concrete''] at [[Ausstage]]

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