
Known for
Acting
Born
July 11, 1916
Birthplace
Canning Town, London, England, UK
Died
November 16, 2008 (aged 92)
Varney was born in Canning Town, then in Essex but now part of the London Borough of Newham. His father worked in a rubber factory in Silvertown and he was one of five children who grew up in Addington Road, Canning Town. Varney was educated at the nearby Star Lane Primary School in West Ham and after leaving school at 14, he worked as a messenger boy and a page boy at the Regent Palace Hotel. He took piano lessons as a child and was good enough to find employment as a part-time piano player. His first paid engagement was at Plumstead Radical Club in Woolwich, for which he was paid eight shillings and sixpence (42½p). He also played in working men's clubs, pubs and ABC cinemas, and later san...
1996
1994
1983
1979
as Window Cleaner
1976
1973
1973
as Stan Butler
1973
as Sherry Sheridan
1972
as Wilfred Stone
1972
as Stan Butler
1971
as Stan Butler
1971
1969
1968
as Sherry Sheridan
1967
1966
as Gilbert
1965
as Rabbit Malone
1964
1961
1952
as Dennis