
Don Warrington
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).
Filmography

Six Days of Justice
1972 · 10.0
London
2004 · 10.0

Red Dwarf
1988 · 8.1

King Lear
2016 · 8.0

To Play the King
1993 · 7.9

Red Dwarf: Smeg Ups
1994 · 7.7

Doctor Who
2005 · 7.6

Lewis
2007 · 7.6

Death in Paradise
2011 · 7.4

Lovejoy
1986 · 7.4

Rising Damp
1974 · 7.4

Hamlet
1996 · 7.3

The Trick
1997 · 7.3

Going Postal
2010 · 7.2

Waking the Dead
2001 · 7.2

Chasing Shadows
2014 · 7.2

Beyond Paradise
2023 · 7.1

Law & Order: UK
2009 · 7.0

The XYY Man
1976 · 7.0

The Last Giraffe
1979 · 7.0

Trial & Retribution
1997 · 6.8

Arabian Nights
2000 · 6.8

Believe Nothing
2002 · 6.8

CI5: The New Professionals
1999 · 6.8

The Five
2016 · 6.7

New Street Law
2006 · 6.6

Casualty
1986 · 6.2

Chiller
1995 · 6.2

M.I. High
2007 · 6.1

Backup
1995 · 6.0

C.A.T.S. Eyes
1985 · 6.0

Henry IX
2017 · 6.0

The Lion of Africa
1987 · 6.0

Triangle
1981 · 5.8

Land of the Blind
2006 · 5.8

The Ark
2015 · 5.7

The Seventh Scroll
1999 · 5.6

You, Me and Him
2018 · 5.6

8 ½ Women
1999 · 5.5

Rising Damp
1980 · 5.5

The Glass Man
2011 · 5.5

Futureshock: Comet
2008 · 5.3

Bloodbath at the House of Death
1984 · 5.3

Tube Tales
1999 · 5.2

Camping
1990 · 5.0

It's a Wonderful Afterlife
2010 · 4.8

Manchild
2002 · 4.5

The Crouches
2003 · 4.5

Lighthouse
2000 · 4.5

Babymother
1998 · 4.0

Fat Slags
2004 · 3.4
BBC Comedy Feeds
2012 · 0.0
Second City Firsts
1973 · 0.0

Expresso
2007 · 0.0
Against the Crowd
1975 · 0.0
Number Six
1995 · 0.0

Carbon Copy
1975 · 0.0

Club Havana
1975 · 0.0

The Mysteries
1985 · 0.0

Manilla Envelopes
2006 · 0.0

Going Postal 2in1
2011 · 0.0
The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words
2009 · 0.0

Still We Thrive
2022 · 0.0

God, Smell and Her
2009 · 0.0
Night Shift
2014 · 0.0

Borderland
1988 · 0.0