Veteran
actor Rex
Garner was appearing on television and in films in the 1950s. In
1950 he appeared in a BBC comedy-drama based on a play and set in
Moscow in 1945, entitled The Whole
World Over in which he played
Sergei Sintsin. Also in 1950, Rex plays a waiter in the
movie Night and the City, a
part for which he is un-credited.
Murder at 3am from 1953 sees Rex Garner as Sgt. Bill Todd.
Towards the end of the decade
Rex Garner embarks on a role which many
will remember as Vic Steele in
the series Shadow Squad
(1957). Next is another series
My Wife and I, playing David
Finley (1958).
Rex Garner's prolific career in television continues in
series
including: Emergency Ward 10,
Crane, Z Cars, The Dick Emery Show, Hugh and I, No Hiding Place, Marriage Lines, Softly, Softly, Orlando, Dad's Army, Rhodes (mini-series), The Carruthers Brothers and the tv
movie, Life Beyond the Box: Norman
Stanley Fletcher.
Rex Garner wrote to Cherished
Television.co.uk in 2002; "I did a couple
of series for Associated Rediffusion in the fifties. I played the
lead as "Vic Steel" in "Shadow Squad" and I played the co-lead opposite
Mai Zetterling in "My Wife and I". Both were series."
Rex continues "I went to
live in South Africa in 1968 and have recently
returned to the UK. I had a full career in Theatre and TV there"
[In South Africa]. Rex Garner is one of the most respected
theatre directors of comedy and farce in South Africa. Rex has
worked for Pieter Toerien, a major theatre producer as principle
director for many years. Pieter Toerien has rewarded Rex Garner for his
services by naming the small theatre in the Alhambra complex 'The Rex
Garner Theatre'.
Watch Rex Garner in a
clip from the Z Cars episode The Whizzers
