Harold Warrender
# 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, Sussex. They had no children.

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Role |
| - | - | - |
| 1934 | 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 |
