Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

Gender

Male

Birthday

1923-01-13

Deathday

2001-05-22 (78 years old)

Place of Birth

Chingford, Essex, England, UK

Also Known As

Jack Stanley Watling

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.

Known For

7.9%

Doctor Who

Nov 23, 1963

7.9%

Doctor Who

Nov 23, 1963

7.6%

A Night to Remember

Jul 3, 1958

6.9%

Mr. Arkadin

Aug 9, 1955

6.1%

Under Capricorn

Sep 8, 1949

8.0%

Jeeves and Wooster

Apr 22, 1990

6.8%

Sink the Bismarck!

Feb 11, 1960

6.9%

The Nanny

Oct 7, 1965

6.4%

The Way Ahead

Jun 9, 1944

6.8%

Reach for the Sky

Jul 5, 1956

7.0%

Heartbeat

Apr 10, 1992

6.8%

The Admirable Crichton

Jun 11, 1957

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Acting

2022		Troughton in Tibet: Making 'The Abominable Snowmen' as Self (archive footage)
2022		Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen as Professor Travers (voice)

2021

Doctor Who: The Web of Fear - Episode 3 as Professor Travers (voice)

1995

Downtime as Professor Travers

1992		Wallpaper Warrior as Michael Foot M.P.
1992		Heartbeat as The Colonel

1991

The House of Eliott as General Treves

1990

Jeeves and Wooster as Lord Wickhammersley

1986

Myth Makers 10: Deborah Watling

1982

Andy Robson as Matthew Dennison

1981		Bergerac as Blakemore
1981		Bergerac as Frank Blakemore

1976		The Cedar Tree as Arthur Bourne (2)
1976		The Cedar Tree as Julian Palmer

1975

Rumpole of the Bailey

1974

11 Harrowhouse as Fitzmaurice

1973

Father Dear Father as Bill Mossman

1972		The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
1972		Pathfinders
1972		Franklin's Farm as Philip

1971

Jason King

1969

Paul Temple

1968		Never A Cross Word
1968		Doctor Who: The Web of Fear as Professor Travers

1967

Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen as Professor Travers

1966

Softly, Softly

1965

The Nanny as Dr. Medman

1964

Who Was Maddox?

1963		Doctor Who
1963		Doctor Who as Professor Travers
1963		The Plane Makers

1962

Flat Two

1961		Anna Karenina as Stiva Prince Oblonsky
1961		Stryker of the Yard
1961		Nothing Barred as Peter Brewster
1961		Mary Had a Little... as Scott Raymond
1961		Three on a Spree as Mike Brewster

1960

Sink the Bismarck! as RNVR Signals Officer

1959

No Hiding Place

1958		The Solitary Child as Cyril
1958		Chain of Events as Freddie
1958		The Adventures of William Tell as Ferdinand
1958		A Night to Remember as Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall
1958		Gideon's Day as Rev. Julian Small

1957		The Birthday Present as Bill Thompson
1957		The Admirable Crichton as Treherne
1957		That Woman Opposite as Toby Lawes

1956		Hancock's Half Hour
1956		Reach for the Sky as Peel

1955		A Time to Kill as Dennis Willows
1955		The Adventures of Robin Hood as Sir Leon
1955		Mr. Arkadin as Marquis of Rutleigh
1955		Dixon of Dock Green as Dick Hunt

1954		The Sea Shall Not Have Them as Flying Officer Harding
1954		Dangerous Cargo as Tom Matthews

1953		Meet Mr. Lucifer as Jim Norton
1953		Flannelfoot as Frank Mitchell

1952		Father's Doing Fine as Clifford Magill
1952		Private Information as Hugh Carson

1951

White Corridors as Dick Groom

1950		The Naked Heart as Robert Gagnon
1950		Once a Sinner as John Ross

1949

Under Capricorn as Winter

1948		Quartet as Nicky Garnet (segment "The Facts of Life")
1948		The Winslow Boy as Dickie Winslow
1948		Easy Money as Dennis Stafford

1947

The Courtneys of Curzon Street as Teddy Courtney

1945

Journey Together as John Aynesworth

1944

The Way Ahead as Sgt. Buster

1943		The Demi-Paradise as Tom
1943		We Dive at Dawn as Navigating Officer - Lt. Gordon, R.N.

1942

The Young Mr. Pitt as Atkinson

1938

Sixty Glorious Years as Minor Role