Don Warrington Philip Smith in "Rising Damp", from 1974 to 1978, alongside Leonard Rossiter, Richard Beckinsale, and Frances de la Tour. Warrington also appeared as series regular in the crime drama "C.A.T.S. Eyes", as government contact Nigel Beaumont (1985–1987); in "Impact Earth" (2007) playing General Harris; and in "New Street Law" as Judge Ken Winyard. In 1993 Warrington played television reporter Graham Gaunt in "To Play The King", the second part of the BBC's "House of Cards" trilogy. He has had smaller roles in many programmes including "Red Dwarf", "Lovejoy", "Manchild", and "Diamond Geezer". Warrington portrayed the villainous founder of Time Lord
Rising Damp not include the feature film version. In his introduction, Eric Chappell writes: "When I decided to publish the scripts of "Rising Damp" my first thought was, did I have them all? What followed was a desperate search in the loft amongst piles of mildewed papers until I found them.… The scripts were written in feverish haste by someone who didn’t really know what he was doing, and who was finding things out as he went along. I didn’t admit this at the time, even to myself. I took the view that sitcom writers fell into two categories: the quick and