Jack Watling

Actor Jan 13 (died age 78) Chingford, Essex, England, UK 1938–2025 (87 year career)

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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.

Known For

Film

A Night to Remember

Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall

Film

Mr. Arkadin

Marquis of Rutleigh

Film

Sink the Bismarck!

RNVR Signals Officer

Film

The Nanny

Dr. Medman

Film

Under Capricorn

Winter

Film

Reach for the Sky

Peel

Film

The Admirable Crichton

Treherne

Film

The Way Ahead

Sgt. Buster

Filmography

Acting (80)

Movies (56)

Doctor Who: Downtime

2025

as Professor Travers

Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen

2022

as Professor Travers (voice)

Troughton in Tibet: Making 'The Abominable Snowmen'

2022

as Self (archive footage)

10.0

Doctor Who: The Web of Fear - Episode 3

2021

as Professor Travers (voice)

Downtime

1995

as Professor Travers

5.2

Wallpaper Warrior

1992

as Michael Foot M.P.

11 Harrowhouse

as Fitzmaurice

Father Dear Father

as Bill Mossman

The Adventures of Barry McKenzie

1972

5.1

Franklin's Farm

1972

as Philip

Third Party

1972

as Tony

Doctor Who: The Web of Fear

1968

as Professor Travers

7.7

Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen

as Professor Travers

The Nanny

as Dr. Medman

Who Was Maddox?

as Jack Heath

Flat Two

as Frank Leamington

Nearly a Nasty Accident

as Flight Lt. Grogan

Mary Had a Little...

as Scott Raymond

Nothing Barred

as Peter Brewster

Anna Karenina

as Stiva Prince Oblonsky

Three on a Spree

as Mike Brewster

Sink the Bismarck!

as RNVR Signals Officer

6.9

A Night to Remember

1958

as Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall

7.7

Links of Justice

1958

as Edgar Mills

Chain of Events

as Freddie

Gideon's Day

as Rev. Julian Small

The Solitary Child

as Cyril

The Admirable Crichton

as Treherne

The Birthday Present

as Bill Thompson

That Woman Opposite

as Toby Lawes

Reach for the Sky

as Peel

Mr. Arkadin

as Marquis of Rutleigh

A Time to Kill

as Dennis Willows

Windfall

as John Lee

Trouble in the Glen

as Sammy Weller

Dangerous Cargo

as Tom Matthews

The Sea Shall Not Have Them

1954

as Flying Officer Harding

7.2

The Golden Link

1954

as Bill Howard

Flannelfoot

as Frank Mitchell

Meet Mr. Lucifer

as Jim Norton

Private Information

as Hugh Carson

Father's Doing Fine

as Clifford Magill

White Corridors

as Dick Groom

Once a Sinner

as John Ross

The Naked Heart

as Robert Gagnon

Under Capricorn

as Winter

Easy Money

as Dennis Stafford

Quartet

as Nicky Garnet (segment "The Facts of Life")

6.2

The Winslow Boy

1948

as Dickie Winslow

6.9

The Courtneys of Curzon Street

as Teddy Courtney

Journey Together

as John Aynesworth

The Way Ahead

as Sgt. Buster

The Demi-Paradise

as Tom

We Dive at Dawn

as Navigating Officer - Lt. Gordon, R.N.

The Young Mr. Pitt

as Atkinson

Sixty Glorious Years

as Minor Role

Television (24)

Heartbeat

as The Colonel

The House of Eliott

as General Treves

Jeeves and Wooster

as Lord Wickhammersley

8.1

Fortunes of War

1987

as Sir Desmond Hooper

Andy Robson

as Matthew Dennison

Bergerac

as Blakemore

The Cedar Tree

as Julian Palmer

Rumpole of the Bailey

as Mr. X

Pathfinders

Jason King

The Misfit

as Reverend Tim Pritchard

Paul Temple

Nearest and Dearest

as Cartwright

Never A Cross Word

Softly, Softly

The Power Game

as Don Henderson

The Power Game

1965

as Don Henderson

Doctor Who

as Professor Travers

Stryker of the Yard

No Hiding Place

The Adventures of William Tell

as Ferdinand

Hancock's Half Hour

The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Sir Leon

Dixon of Dock Green

as Dick Hunt