Former Rising Damp star Don Warrington talks to ME & MY MONEY

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<p class=”mol-para-with-font”>The actor Don Warrington says the best year of his financial life was 1974, the year he started playing Philip Smith in the TV sitcom Rising Damp. </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>The 69-year-old star told Donna Ferguson he suspects he was paid less than his white co-stars Leonard Rossiter, Richard Beckinsale and Frances de la Tour, but did not question this back in the 1970s.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>He is currently in Guadeloupe filming the 11th series of the BBC hit crime drama, Death In Paradise. </p><div class=”artSplitter mol-img-group” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”> </div> <noscript> </noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>Comfortable: Don Warrington is filming a new series of Death In Paradise</p></div><p class=”mol-para-with-font”><span class=”mol-style-bold”>What did your parents teach you about money? </span></p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>My mother taught me that it is good to have and you must work hard to get it.

My dad died when I was about five years old. He was a politician in Trinidad, but I don’t remember much about him. We moved to England when I was seven. Like many immigrants, my mother started with nothing. She started out as a hairdresser, then became a nurse.
She worked long shifts and would still do hairdressing on her days off. As a child, I wasn’t aware that money was tight, but I knew I couldn’t have everything and that my mother had to work very hard to get by. </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>England was a shock to me when I arrived.

It wasn’t the bright, vivid place I’d been led to believe it was as a little boy in Trinidad. It was cold and damp and rather grey. It wasn’t glorious. </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”><span class=”mol-style-bold”>Have you ever struggled to make ends meet? </span></p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Yes.
When I was 25 and became a dad, I worried about being able to give my son what he needed. As an actor, you know there will be times when you’re busy and making money, and times when you are not. Once I was a father, I became more concerned about where my next job would come from.

I would take whatever acting jobs I was offered, because I needed to. Luckily, I always managed to scrape by.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”><span class=”mol-style-bold”>Have you ever been paid silly money? </span></p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>It can look that way because I can do a voiceover for 비트겟 a commercial, which will take 20 minutes, and end up earning me thousands of pounds.

That appears to be silly money. But according to the advertisers it’s not, because it’s helping them to sell a product. </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”><span class=”mol-style-bold”>What was the best year of your financial life? </span></p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>It was 1974, when I started acting in Rising Damp.
That was the first year that, as a professional actor, I was paid well enough to feel like I was going to be OK and could make a living doing what I had chosen to do. I remember feeling a sense of relief that I could afford my home, my car, my food – everything I needed.

I was comfortable, for the first time. It was liberating. </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Looking back now, 비트겟 I think I probably got paid less than the white actors. That might have been because I was less experienced than they were. I don’t know. </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>At the time, I never thought about it, I just assumed I was being paid a fair wage.

But I have thought about it since then. I think we should be better at telling each other what we get paid. Then maybe we would get a more level playing field.</p><div><div data-track-module=”am-related_carousel^related_carousel” data-track-selector=”.rotator-panels a:not([class*=external])” data-dm-rotator-rotate=”false” data-track-pos=”static” data-dm-rotator-auto-init=”” id=”p-20″ class=”related-carousel with-fb-or-tw money” data-dm-rotator-active-class=”active” data-dm-rotator-page-count=”1.0″ data-dm-social-article-auto-init=”” data-dm-rotator-page-size=”1″> <div class=”rotator bdrcc”> <div class=”rotator-title”> <h2>RELATED ARTICLES</h2> <ul class=”rotator-pages link-xocc”> <li class=”rotator-prev”>Previous

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