Jack Watling

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Jack Watling
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Jack Watling, in 1967
Born
Jack Stanley Watling

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Chingford, Essex, England
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Chelmsford, Essex, England
Alma materItalia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts
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Patricia Hicks
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RelativesDilys Watling (stepdaughter)

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Jack Stanley Watling (13 January 1923 – 22 May 2001) was an English actor.[1][2]

Life and career

Watling was born 13 January 1923 in Chingford, Essex, England.[3] The son of a travelling scrap metal dealer, Watling trained at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts as a child; and made his stage debut in Where the Rainbow Ends at the Holborn Empire in 1936.[4] He made his first film appearances (all uncredited) in Sixty Glorious Years, Housemaster (both 1938) and Goodbye, Mr Chips (1939).[5]

In 1941, Watling played Bill Hopkins in Once a Crook in his West End debut.[6] He starred as Flight Lieutenant Teddy Graham in the original 1942 production of Terence Rattigan's Flare Path.[5]

Watling had a long career in low-key British films, originally in easy-going boyish roles.[7] His early appearances were in Cottage to Let (1941). We Dive at Dawn (1943), The Demi-Paradise (1943) opposite Laurence Olivier, The Way Ahead (1944) with David Niven, The Winslow Boy (1948), Meet Mr. Lucifer (1953) and in Orson Welles' Mr. Arkadin (aka, Confidential Report, 1955).[1] In the account of the sinking of the Titanic, the film A Night To Remember (1958), he played Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall and in Sink the Bismarck! (1960) as the Signals officer who reports "HMS Hood...has blown up!"[8]

Television

Watling's reputation as an effective and reliable television actor took root in the early 1960s. He appeared in Danger Man (1960) in the episode "The Traitor" as Rollo Waters. Between 1964 and 1969 he was Don Henderson, the troubled conscience to tough businessman John Wilder (Patrick Wymark) in The Plane Makers and its sequel The Power Game.[9] Watling also appeared as Doc Saxon in the 1970s series Pathfinders.[7] He played Professor Edward Travers in the BBC science-fiction television series Doctor Who in the serials The Abominable Snowmen (1967) and The Web of Fear (1968), both of which also featuring his daughter Deborah Watling as the Second Doctor's companion Victoria Waterfield.[10] He reprised the role decades later in the independent Doctor Who spin-off video Downtime (1995).[11] He also took over the role of Arthur Bourne in the final series of The Cedar Tree in 1979.

Watling's final roles were all on television, in series including Bergerac, four episodes 1989–1991, as Frank Blakemore and Heartbeat as The Colonel 1994 in "Lost and Found".[12]

Personal life

Watling was married to former actress Patricia Hicks. He was the father of actress Deborah Watling, actor/politician Giles Watling, sculptor Nicky Matthews, and a fourth child, Adam, who died in infancy. Watling was also the stepfather of actress Dilys Watling, Hicks's daughter from a previous marriage. The Watlings were long-term residents at Alderton Hall, Loughton.[13]

Selected filmography

Films

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Television

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  1. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Jack Watling". BFI. Archived from the original on 11 July 2012.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Jack Watling - Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Shorter, Eric (24 May 2001). "Jack Watling". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Jack Watling". 25 May 2001 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  5. ^ a b Anthony Hayward Obituary: Jack Watling[dead link], The Independent, 24 May 2001.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Wearing, J. P. (22 August 2014). The London Stage 1940-1949: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780810893061 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Shorter, Eric (25 May 2001). "Obituary: Jack Watling". The Guardian.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Sink the Bismarck! (1960) - Lewis Gilbert - Cast and Crew - AllMovie". AllMovie.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."BFI Screenonline: Plane Makers/Power Game, The (1963-69)". www.screenonline.org.uk.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."BBC – Doctor Who – Classic Series – Photonovels – The Abominable Snowmen". www.bbc.co.uk.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Muir, John Kenneth (5 October 2007). A Critical History of Doctor Who on Television. McFarland. ISBN 9781476604541 – via Google Books.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Jack Watling". www.aveleyman.com.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hadoke, Toby (24 July 2017). "Deborah Watling obituary". The Guardian.

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