Jack Watling
Acting • Born 1923-01-13 – Died 2001-05-22
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.
Filmography
83 credits
The Way Ahead
Movie • 1944
Sgt. Buster
Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen
Movie • 2022
Professor Travers (voice)
The Nanny
Movie • 1965
Dr. Medman
The Sea Shall Not Have Them
Movie • 1954
Flying Officer Harding
Sink the Bismarck!
Movie • 1960
RNVR Signals Officer
A Time to Kill
Movie • 1955
Dennis Willows
That Woman Opposite
Movie • 1957
Toby Lawes
The Winslow Boy
Movie • 1948
Dickie Winslow
Easy Money
Movie • 1948
Dennis Stafford
Father Dear Father
Movie • 1973
Bill Mossman
Journey Together
Movie • 1945
John Aynesworth
Father's Doing Fine
Movie • 1952
Clifford Magill
Meet Mr. Lucifer
Movie • 1953
Jim Norton
Mary Had a Little...
Movie • 1961
Scott Raymond
The Naked Heart
Movie • 1950
Robert Gagnon
The Demi-Paradise
Movie • 1943
Tom
Dangerous Cargo
Movie • 1954
Tom Matthews
Once a Sinner
Movie • 1950
John Ross
Doctor Who: The Web of Fear - Episode 3
Movie • 2021
Professor Travers (voice)
Flat Two
Movie • 1962
Frank Leamington
Who Was Maddox?
Movie • 1964
Jack Heath
Flannelfoot
Movie • 1953
Frank Mitchell
The Courtneys of Curzon Street
Movie • 1947
Teddy Courtney
Downtime
Movie • 1995
Professor Travers
Troughton in Tibet: Making 'The Abominable Snowmen'
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Private Information
Movie • 1952
Hugh Carson
Under Capricorn
Movie • 1949
Winter
The Birthday Present
Movie • 1957
Bill Thompson
Nothing Barred
Movie • 1961
Peter Brewster
The Solitary Child
Movie • 1958
Cyril
Franklin's Farm
Movie • 1972
Philip
Three on a Spree
Movie • 1961
Mike Brewster
Wallpaper Warrior
Movie • 1992
Michael Foot M.P.
Chain of Events
Movie • 1958
Freddie
Mr. Arkadin
Movie • 1955
Marquis of Rutleigh
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
Movie • 1972
Sixty Glorious Years
Movie • 1938
Minor Role
Anna Karenina
Movie • 1961
Stiva Prince Oblonsky
Quartet
Movie • 1948
Nicky Garnet (segment "The Facts of Life")
The Admirable Crichton
Movie • 1957
Treherne
Reach for the Sky
Movie • 1956
Peel
A Night to Remember
Movie • 1958
Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall
Gideon's Day
Movie • 1958
Rev. Julian Small
We Dive at Dawn
Movie • 1943
Navigating Officer - Lt. Gordon, R.N.
Doctor Who: The Web of Fear
Movie • 1968
Professor Travers
Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen
Movie • 1967
Professor Travers
11 Harrowhouse
Movie • 1974
Fitzmaurice
White Corridors
Movie • 1951
Dick Groom
The Young Mr. Pitt
Movie • 1942
Atkinson
Doctor Who: Downtime
Movie • 2025
Professor Travers
Links of Justice
Movie • 1958
Edgar Mills
Windfall
Movie • 1955
John Lee
The Golden Link
Movie • 1954
Bill Howard
Trouble in the Glen
Movie • 1954
Sammy Weller
Third Party
Movie • 1972
Tony
Nearly a Nasty Accident
Movie • 1961
Flight Lt. Grogan
Number Three
Movie • 1953
Bill Hollies
Jeeves and Wooster
TV • 1990
Lord Wickhammersley
Bergerac
TV • 1981
Blakemore
Softly, Softly
TV • 1966
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Heartbeat
TV • 1992
The Colonel
Jason King
TV • 1971
Rumpole of the Bailey
TV • 1975
Mr. X
Dixon of Dock Green
TV • 1955
Dick Hunt
The Adventures of Robin Hood
TV • 1955
Sir Leon
No Hiding Place
TV • 1959
Never A Cross Word
TV • 1968
The Cedar Tree
TV • 1976
Arthur Bourne (2)
The Cedar Tree
TV • 1976
Julian Palmer
Pathfinders
TV • 1972
The Adventures of William Tell
TV • 1958
Ferdinand
Stryker of the Yard
TV • 1961
Hancock's Half Hour
TV • 1956
Paul Temple
TV • 1969
The House of Eliott
TV • 1991
General Treves
Andy Robson
TV • 1982
Matthew Dennison
Bergerac
TV • 1981
Frank Blakemore
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Professor Travers
The Misfit
TV • 1970
Reverend Tim Pritchard
The Power Game
TV • 1965
Don Henderson
Nearest and Dearest
TV • 1968
Cartwright
Fortunes of War
TV • 1987
Sir Desmond Hooper