Jack Watling
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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Acting History
2025
Doctor Who: Downtime as Professor Travers
2022Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen as Professor Travers (voice)
2022Troughton in Tibet: Making 'The Abominable Snowmen' as Self (archive footage)
2021Doctor Who: The Web of Fear - Episode 3 as Professor Travers (voice)
1995Downtime as Professor Travers
1992Wallpaper Warrior as Michael Foot M.P.
1992Heartbeat as The Colonel
1991The House of Eliott as General Treves
1990Jeeves and Wooster as Lord Wickhammersley
1987Fortunes of War as Sir Desmond Hooper
1982Andy Robson as Matthew Dennison
1981Bergerac as Blakemore
1981Bergerac as Frank Blakemore
1976The Cedar Tree as Arthur Bourne (2)
1976The Cedar Tree as Julian Palmer
1975Rumpole of the Bailey as Mr. X
197411 Harrowhouse as Fitzmaurice
1973Father Dear Father as Bill Mossman
1972The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
1972Pathfinders
1972Franklin's Farm as Philip
1971Jason King
1970The Misfit as Reverend Tim Pritchard
1969Paul Temple
1968Nearest and Dearest as Cartwright
1968Never A Cross Word
1968Doctor Who: The Web of Fear as Professor Travers
1967Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen as Professor Travers
1966Softly, Softly
1965The Power Game as Don Henderson
1965The Nanny as Dr. Medman
1964Who Was Maddox? as Jack Heath
1963Doctor Who
1963Doctor Who as Professor Travers
1962Flat Two as Frank Leamington
1961Anna Karenina as Stiva Prince Oblonsky
1961Stryker of the Yard
1961Nothing Barred as Peter Brewster
1961Mary Had a Little... as Scott Raymond
1961Three on a Spree as Mike Brewster
1960Sink the Bismarck! as RNVR Signals Officer
1959No Hiding Place
1958The Solitary Child as Cyril
1958Links of Justice as Edgar Mills
1958Chain of Events as Freddie
1958The Adventures of William Tell as Ferdinand
1958A Night to Remember as Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall
1958Gideon's Day as Rev. Julian Small
1957The Birthday Present as Bill Thompson
1957The Admirable Crichton as Treherne
1957That Woman Opposite as Toby Lawes
1956Hancock's Half Hour
1956Reach for the Sky as Peel
1955A Time to Kill as Dennis Willows
1955The Adventures of Robin Hood as Sir Leon
1955Windfall as John Lee
1955Mr. Arkadin as Marquis of Rutleigh
1955Dixon of Dock Green as Dick Hunt
1954The Golden Link as Bill Howard
1954Trouble in the Glen as Sammy Weller
1954The Sea Shall Not Have Them as Flying Officer Harding
1954Dangerous Cargo as Tom Matthews
1953Meet Mr. Lucifer as Jim Norton
1953Flannelfoot as Frank Mitchell
1952Father's Doing Fine as Clifford Magill
1952Private Information as Hugh Carson
1951White Corridors as Dick Groom
1950The Naked Heart as Robert Gagnon
1950Once a Sinner as John Ross
1949Under Capricorn as Winter
1948Quartet as Nicky Garnet (segment "The Facts of Life")
1948The Winslow Boy as Dickie Winslow
1948Easy Money as Dennis Stafford
1947The Courtneys of Curzon Street as Teddy Courtney
1945Journey Together as John Aynesworth
1944The Way Ahead as Sgt. Buster
1943The Demi-Paradise as Tom
1943We Dive at Dawn as Navigating Officer - Lt. Gordon, R.N.
1942The Young Mr. Pitt as Atkinson
1938Sixty Glorious Years as Minor Role