Harold Warrender

Harold John Warrender (15 November 1903 – 6 May 1953) was a British stage, film and television actor, and radio presenter.

His father was Sir George Warrender, 7th Baronet. His mother was Lady Ethel Maud Ashley Cooper, a singer and patron of music, and personal friend of the composer Edward Elgar and his wife Caroline Alice Roberts.

Warrender became well-known in the 1940s for his part in the popular radio variety show 'Merry-Go-Round' in which he conducted a cash quiz called 'Double or Quits.' The show started as a Forces entertainment which after the war continued in the BBC Light Programme.

Family In 1942 Warrender married Constance Elizabeth Fowles, daughter of John Fowles vicar of Rye, East Sussex. They had no children.

He died suddenly at his home at Gerrard's Cross on 6 May 1953, following a collapse after mowing his lawn. He was 49.

Filmography Year Title Role Notes1934 Leave It to Blanche Guardee 1934 I Spy NBG 1934 Lady in Danger Clive 1935 Lazybones Lord Melton 1935 Mimi Marcel 1935 Invitation to the Waltz Duke of Wurtemburg 1940 Contraband Lt. Cmdr. Ellis, RN 1940 Convoy Lt. Commander Martin 1940 Sailors Three Pilot's Mate 1948 Under the Frozen Falls Mr. Carlington 1948 Scott of the Antarctic Dr. E.A. Wilson 1949 Warning to Wantons Count Anton Kardak 1949 Conspirator Col. Hammerbrook 1951 Pandora and the Flying Dutchman Geoffrey Fielding 1951 The Six Men Holroyd 1951 Where No Vultures Fly Mannering 1952 Ivanhoe Locksley 1953 Time Bomb Sir Evelyn Jordan 1953 Intimate Relations George