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

• Beyond Paradise — Commissioner Selwyn Patterson
• 2022Still We Thrive
• 2018You, Me and Him — Charles
• Henry IX — Gilbert
• 2016King Lear — King Lear
• The Five — Ray Kenwood
• 2015The Ark — Paul
• Chasing Shadows — CS Harley Drayton
• 2014Night Shift — Don
• BBC Comedy Feeds — Dad
• Death in Paradise — Selwyn Patterson
• 2011Going Postal 2in1 — Priest
• 2011The Glass Man — Anton
• Going Postal — Priest of Offler
• 2010It's a Wonderful Afterlife — Chief Superintendent
• 2009God, Smell and Her
• Law & Order: UK
• The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words — Readings (voice)
• 2008Futureshock: Comet — General Harris
• 2007Expresso — Mr Jones
• Lewis — Marcus Harding
• M.I. High — Bodleian / Crime
• 2006Land of the Blind — First Sergeant
• 2006Manilla Envelopes — Battersea Gazette Paper Boss
• New Street Law — Judge Ken Winyard
• Doctor Who — Mr.Präsident
• 2004Fat Slags — General Secretary
• London — Ignatius Sancho
• The Crouches — Bailey
• Believe Nothing — Chairman
• Manchild — Patrick
• Waking the Dead — Gideon Barclay
• Arabian Nights — Hari Ben Karim
• 2000Lighthouse — Prison Officer Ian Goslet
• 19998 ½ Women — Simon
• CI5: The New Professionals
• The Seventh Scroll — Colonel Nogo
• 1999Tube Tales — Preacher (Steal Away), Preacher (segment "Steal Away")
• 1998Babymother — Luther
• 1997The Trick — The Magic Man
• Trial & Retribution — Willard Pembroke
• 1996Hamlet — Voltimand
• Backup
• Chiller — John Meybourne
• 1995Number Six — John Meybourne
• 1994Red Dwarf: Smeg Ups — Commander Blinks
• To Play the King — Graham Gaunt
• 1990Camping
• 1988Borderland — Josh
• Red Dwarf — Commander Binks
• 1987The Lion of Africa — Henry Piggot
• Casualty — Trevor
• Lovejoy — Felix
• C.A.T.S. Eyes — Nigel Beaumont
• The Mysteries — Angel Gabriel
• 1984Bloodbath at the House of Death — Stephen Wilson
• Triangle — Alan Lansing
• 1980Rising Damp — Philip Smith
• 1979The Last Giraffe — Peter Mwenga
• The XYY Man — Jomo Ibbon
• Against the Crowd — Albert Sharpe II
• 1975Carbon Copy — Albert Sharpe II
• 1975Club Havana — Dave
• Rising Damp — Philip
• Second City Firsts — Dave
• Six Days of Justice — Henry Vaughan

Appearances as themselves (10)

• Policing Paradise — Self - Narrator
• 2023Princess Anne: The Plot to Kidnap a Royal — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Remembers… — Self
• Between the Covers — Self
• 2016On Christmas Night — Himself
• Celebrity Antiques Road Trip — Self - Participant
• 2011The Toys That Made Christmas — Self - Child of the '60s
• Grumpy Old Men — Self
• 2000The Unforgettable Leonard Rossiter — Self
• 1996'Oh, Miss Jones!': The Very Best of Leonard Rossiter — Self