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Gary Warren found movie fame at age 15 when he played Peter in Lionel Jeffries's 1970 film of E. Nebit's children's classic The Railway Children.
His first acting job - aged seven - was in a film called The Silent Playground.
In1969 he played Patrick Dennis in the London West End production of Jerry Herman's musical, "Mame" at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, with Ginger Rogers, Margaret Courtenay, Ann Beach, Burt Kwouk, Tony Adams, and Julia McKenzie in the cast. Before and after The Railway Children, he had numerous minor TV roles in Z Cars, The Shadow of the Tower, and Whack-O, among others, and appeared in LWT’s Catweazle (1971-2) as Cedric Collingford (Below left with Geoffrey Bayldon) , and as Alexander Green in the ATV sitcom Alexander The Greatest (1971-2). His last credited film role was in Escape from Alcatraz in 1979, playing a prison guard.
He declined a role as The Artful Dodger’s number two in the Oscar winning movie musical Oliver! (1968). “That was the only thing I turned down that was fairly major". He chose not to pursue his acting career further because "I had an awful, difficult transition between youth and adult professionally. The truth is I didn’t make it. I couldn’t crack the barrier of being typecast and was always looked at as a kid in short trousers."
Now, having recently celebrated his 70th birthday he is excited to have embarked on a new career as a writer. His debut novel 1961 Greenwich Village – A Fable, and his autobiography, If My Memoir Serves Me Well, have just been released.
FRA is pleased to be representing Gary for both novel and memoir.