# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-warrington
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:03:14.941Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/don-warrington"
name: "Don Warrington"
slug: "don-warrington"
description: "Don Warrington MBE 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). His son, Jake Fairbrother, is also an actor."
tagline: "British actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Don_Warrington_signing_(cropped2).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1951-05-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.07
  momentum:             1.012796307950493
  historical:           13.67829733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0913116/"
    handle:    "nm0913116"
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    title: "Don Warrington"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Warrington"
    title: "Don Warrington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Warrington"
    title: "Don Warrington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Don Warrington"
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    title: "Дон Варингтон"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Don Warrington"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump