Jack Watling

Jack Watling

Birthday: 1923-01-13

Place of Birth: Chingford, Essex, England, UK

Biography: Jack Watling is an English actor, who transitioned from a successful film career in the forties to an equally successful television career from the 1960s onwards. He is the father of the actress Deborah Watling.

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The Way Ahead
The Way Ahead

A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and...

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Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen
Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen

The Doctor revisits the Himalayas because he wants to return an ancient relic he was given many cent...

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The Nanny
The Nanny

Nanny, a London family's live-in maid, brings morbid 10-year-old Joey back from the psychiatric ward...

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The Sea Shall Not Have Them
The Sea Shall Not Have Them

During the autumn of 1944, RAF Hudson, carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret infor...

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Sink the Bismarck!
Sink the Bismarck!

The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz E...

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A Time to Kill
A Time to Kill

A man and a woman are poisoned. The woman dies, but the man survives. The finger of blame begins to ...

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That Woman Opposite
That Woman Opposite

In a French coastal town, Det. Dermot Kinross is inspecting the murder of antiques dealer Maurice La...

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The Winslow Boy
The Winslow Boy

In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents...

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Easy Money
Easy Money

A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhap...

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Father Dear Father
Father Dear Father

After divorcing his wife, Patrick Glover decides it is time to remarry, and chooses his literary age...

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Journey Together
Journey Together

Two Englishmen train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin....

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Father's Doing Fine
Father's Doing Fine

Lady Buckering, an English widow, has four daughters; Doreen, married to Dougall and about to give b...

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Meet Mr. Lucifer
Meet Mr. Lucifer

A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time....

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Mary Had a Little...
Mary Had a Little...

A theatrical impresario tries to win a bet with a psychiatrist over the production of a perfect baby...

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The Naked Heart
The Naked Heart

At the beginning of the 20th century, in the North of the Province of Quebec. After five years spent...

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The Demi-Paradise
The Demi-Paradise

Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the ...

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Dangerous Cargo
Dangerous Cargo

Inspired by the real events of the attempted heist at Heathrow Airport in 1952, a criminal tricks an...

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Once a Sinner
Once a Sinner

Impoverished British bank clerk John Ross is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James....

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Doctor Who: The Web of Fear - Episode 3
Doctor Who: The Web of Fear - Episode 3

Jamie tries to evade Yeti in the tunnels of the London Underground. Meanwhile, The Doctor and Victor...

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Flat Two
Flat Two

A victim's boyfriend sneaks into a blackmailer's flat to sort him out, but another man's already the...

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Who Was Maddox?
Who Was Maddox?

A publisher is nearly framed for murder, but he appears to have been goaded by the blackmailer who h...

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Flannelfoot
Flannelfoot

Ace crime reporter Watling tries to discover the identity of a notorious jewel thief, but his inform...

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The Courtneys of Curzon Street
The Courtneys of Curzon Street

On New Years Eve, 1899, baronet's son Edward Courtney becomes engaged to Kate, his mother's maid, mu...

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Downtime
Downtime

Retired commander of the United Nations' Intelligence Taskforce, and long-time associate of the myst...

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Troughton in Tibet: Making 'The Abominable Snowmen'
Troughton in Tibet: Making 'The Abominable Snowmen'

A look at the making of the Doctor Who (1963) story "The Abominable Snowmen" (1967)....

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Private Information
Private Information

A woman suspects that the local council is corrupt and building defective drains that could cause pu...

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Under Capricorn
Under Capricorn

A British ex-convict in colonial Australia and his fragile wife, haunted by the past crime that bind...

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The Birthday Present
The Birthday Present

Returning from a business trip, toy salesman Simon Scott is caught attempting to smuggle a wristwatc...

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Nothing Barred
Nothing Barred

Penniless Lord Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor to t...

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The Solitary Child
The Solitary Child

A young woman marries a gentleman farmer who may have murdered his first wife....

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Franklin's Farm
Franklin's Farm

A grandson's attempt to help his grandma produces problems for the family....

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Three on a Spree
Three on a Spree

A young man will inherit a huge fortune--8 million pounds--but to qualify, he must spend a million p...

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Wallpaper Warrior
Wallpaper Warrior

A dramatization of incidents involving Eddie Horner, a factory worker active in union politics radic...

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Chain of Events
Chain of Events

When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks a series of unforseen consequences...

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Mr. Arkadin
Mr. Arkadin

Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detectiv...

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The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie

Barry McKenzie sets off for England with his aunt, Edna Everage, to advance his cultural education. ...

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Sixty Glorious Years
Sixty Glorious Years

Continuing the story of 'Victoria the Great'....

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Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the w...

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Quartet
Quartet

Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alie...

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The Admirable Crichton
The Admirable Crichton

Lord Loam has modern ideas about his household, he believes in treating his servants as his equals -...

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Reach for the Sky
Reach for the Sky

The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident ...

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A Night to Remember
A Night to Remember

The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. T...

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Gideon's Day
Gideon's Day

Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-vi...

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We Dive at Dawn
We Dive at Dawn

A gripping tale of WWII naval warfare in the Baltics, starring John Mills as Lt. Freddie Taylor, a B...

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Doctor Who: The Web of Fear
Doctor Who: The Web of Fear

The TARDIS narrowly avoids becoming engulfed in a cobwebby substance in space. It arrives in the Lon...

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Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen
Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen

Mysterious forces are at work in 1930s Tibet. The once gentle Yeti have turned savage and besieged a...

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11 Harrowhouse
11 Harrowhouse

A small time diamond merchant jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a large f...

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White Corridors
White Corridors

White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the story ...

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The Young Mr. Pitt
The Young Mr. Pitt

This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Brit...

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Doctor Who: Downtime
Doctor Who: Downtime

Ian Levine's version of the 'Wilderness era' Doctor Who story with Sylvester McCoy....

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Links of Justice
Links of Justice

Edgar is unhappily married to rich Clare. He plots with his mistress Stella to kill Clare, as she re...

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Windfall
Windfall

A shop assistant finds a case with £2000 in it, and doesn't quite know what to do with it....

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The Golden Link
The Golden Link

What initially looked like a young woman's suicide, turns into a murder investigation and Supt. Blak...

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Trouble in the Glen
Trouble in the Glen

Major Jim "Lance" Lansing, an American ex-pilot of the U.S. Air Corps, returns to Scotland after the...

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