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Warden may refer to:

Officers

having care or custody of some institution; the word is related to guardian.

• Warden (college), head of some University colleges and academic institutions
• Warden of the Mint, historical highest-ranking officer of the Royal Mint of the United Kingdom
• Warden, rank of seniority within City of London Livery Companies, eg Prime Warden etc
• Churchwarden, a lay officer in an Anglican or Episcopal church
• Fire warden, a person designated to aid firefighters at a community level
• Game warden, an officer empowered to enforce the hunting and trapping laws of a jurisdiction
• Prison warden, a corrections officer
• ARP warden, who helped protect British citizens with Air Raid Precautions during World War II
• Warden of the Royal Forest, chief official and supervisor of the Royal Forest
• Street warden, an officer aiding police at a community level
• Warden (Masonic), a ruling member in a Masonic Lodge

Places

• Warden (TTC), a subway station located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Warden Avenue, a major north-south road in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
• Warden, Free State, South Africa
• Warden, Kent, England
• Old Warden, Bedfordshire, England
• Warden, Northumberland, England
• Warden, Washington, US
• Warden, Quebec, Canada

Gaming

• Warden, a character class in the game Lord of the Rings Online - Mines of Moria
• Warden (software), a cheat prevention system used by Blizzard Entertainment
• Warden, a character class in the game Dark Age of Camelot
• Warden, an adventure class in the game Everquest 2
• Grey Warden, a member of the Grey Wardens; an elite warrior order in the RPG Dragon Age: Origins

Lord Warden

• Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, ceremonial official in the United Kingdom
• Lord Warden of the Stannaries, office in the governance of Cornwall
• Lord Warden of the Marches, office in the governments of Scotland and England
• HMS Lord Warden, British warship

People

• Jack Warden (1920–2006), American character actor
• John A. Warden III (born 1943), colonel in the United States Air Force

Other

• Warden message, an important message from the U.S. State Department about safety or travel information for U.S. citizens abroad
• At some educational institutions, a Resident assistant may be referred to as a Warden
• Warden pear, a large baking pear
• The Warden, a character on Superjail, the Adult Swim animated series

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Freddie Frinton, born Frederick Bittiner Coo,^[1][2] (17 January 1909 – 16 October 1968)^[3] was an English comedian who remains a household name in Germany and Scandinavia because of his performance in Dinner for One.

Frinton was born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, the illegitimate child of a seamstress, Florence Elisabeth Coo and was brought up by foster parents. He started working in a Grimsby fish processing plant—where he is said to have entertained his colleagues with parodies and jokes—but was ultimately sacked. He moved into music hall, where he enjoyed modest success and renamed himself Freddie Frinton.

During the Second World War he made a moderate breakthrough as a comedian. In 1945, Frinton first performed the sketch Dinner for One in Blackpool. As he had to pay a royalty every time he performed the sketch, he bought the rights to Dinner for One in the 1950s, which turned out to be a very prescient decision.

At the age of 55, Frinton became a belated success as a plumber character in the television sitcom Meet the Wife, which ran for 40 episodes (the wife was played by Thora Hird). The series is mentioned in the Beatles song "Good Morning Good Morning" with the line "It's time for tea and Meet the Wife". In October 1968, at the age of 59, Freddie Frinton died suddenly from a heart attack in London. He is buried in Hanwell Cemetery.

This would be the end of the story of a not very well remembered English comedian, were there not a surprising postscript. In 1963, Frinton's Dinner for One was recorded by the Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) German television station, and bizarrely, watching the unsubtitled English language sketch on television subsequently has become a German New Year's Eve tradition, with the short seeing multiple repeats every year from 1972 onwards.^[4][5] The role of Miss Sophie was played by May Warden.

The television cult also caught on in Scandinavia and Dinner for One has been a hugely popular permanent, mandatory institution on Danish, Finnish and Swedish television on New Year's Eve for many years, as well in Belgium in the original version. It became so popular that a Dutch version was made with the Dutch actor Joop Doderer for Dutch viewers. It is also shown every 23 December on the Norwegian television, (NRK) and has been shown on the Australian SBS television network on New Year's Eve for at least the last fifteen years.^{[clarification needed]} Interestingly the programme and its main actor Frinton are far less well known in Britain than in any of these countries.

Ironically for an actor whose roles often comprised playing a drunk, Frinton was a teetotaller, having seen in others the damage that alcohol could do.^[6]

Frinton was married twice with family by each marriage.

Selected filmography[link]

• Stars in Your Eyes (1956)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Dinner For One The Sketch (Video)
• Freddie Frinton at the Internet Movie Database

May Warden (9 May 1891 in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire – 5 October 1978 in London) was an English actress and comedienne.

Although she played in other films and TV shows, in Germany and Scandinavia she is best known for her role as Miss Sophie in the comedy sketch Dinner for One along with Freddie Frinton in a 1963 recording.

She married comedian Silvester Stewart (d. 1973) in 1915, and gave birth to 2 sons and 2 daughters, two of whom also went on the stage. She had non-speaking roles in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and in the Doctor Who serial 'The Daleks Master Plan' (as an aged Sara Kingdom). Her last major role was as Billy's outspoken grandmother in the TV series version of Billy Liar (1973). She lived in London until her death.^[1]

References[link]

External links[link]

• May Warden at the Internet Movie Database
• BBC website

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