Cast & creator
Jack Watling
Best known for Doctor Who, Doctor Who, Heartbeat
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.
Also known as: Jack Stanley Watling
56
film credits
31
television credits
87
1938–2022 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (87)
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Doctor Who
1963Doctor Who
Professor Travers
1963
Heartbeat
The Colonel
1992
Bergerac
Blakemore
1981Bergerac
Frank Blakemore
1981
No Hiding Place
1959
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Sir Leon
1955
Rumpole of the Bailey
Mr. X
1975
Danger Man
Rollo Waters
1960
Jeeves and Wooster
Lord Wickhammersley
1990
Dixon of Dock Green
Dick Hunt
1955
Hancock's Half Hour
1956
Softly, Softly
1966
The House of Eliott
General Treves
1991
The Adventures of William Tell
Ferdinand
1958Ten from the Twenties
Sir Runnymede Clarke
1975
Jason King
1971
Paul Temple
1969
Nearest and Dearest
Cartwright
1968
The Misfit
Reverend Tim Pritchard
1970
The Power Game
Don Henderson
1965
A Night to Remember
Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall
1958Stryker of the Yard
1961
Fortunes of War
Sir Desmond Hooper
1987
Mickey Dunne
Jack Leicester
1967
Under Capricorn
Winter
1949
The Cedar Tree
Arthur Bourne (2)
1976The Cedar Tree
Julian Palmer
1976
Mr. Arkadin
Marquis of Rutleigh
1955
Never A Cross Word
1968Andy Robson
Matthew Dennison
1982
Sink the Bismarck!
RNVR Signals Officer
1960
Pathfinders
1972Life Without George
William
1987
The Admirable Crichton
Treherne
1957
Reach for the Sky
Peel
1956
Number Three
Bill Hollies
1953
The Nanny
Dr. Medman
1965
The Demi-Paradise
Tom
1943
Gideon's Day
Rev. Julian Small
1958
The Sea Shall Not Have Them
Flying Officer Harding
1954Third Party
Tony
1972
The Winslow Boy
Dickie Winslow
1948
11 Harrowhouse
Fitzmaurice
1974
The Young Mr. Pitt
Atkinson
1942
Mary Had a Little...
Scott Raymond
1961Andy Robson
Matthew Dennison
1982
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
1972
Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen
Professor Travers
1967
Doctor Who: The Web of Fear
Professor Travers
1968
The Way Ahead
Sgt. Buster
1944
Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen
Professor Travers (voice)
2022
White Corridors
Dick Groom
1951
Father's Doing Fine
Clifford Magill
1952
Three on a Spree
Mike Brewster
1961
Trouble in the Glen
Sammy Weller
1954
We Dive at Dawn
Navigating Officer - Lt. Gordon, R.N.
1943
A Time to Kill
Dennis Willows
1955
Meet Mr. Lucifer
Jim Norton
1953
Journey Together
John Aynesworth
1945
Doctor Who: The Web of Fear - Episode 3
Professor Travers (voice)
2021
The Courtneys of Curzon Street
Teddy Courtney
1947
Nearly a Nasty Accident
Flight Lt. Grogan
1961
Chain of Events
Freddie
1958
Sixty Glorious Years
Minor Role
1938
The Birthday Present
Bill Thompson
1957
Father Dear Father
Bill Mossman
1973
Nothing Barred
Peter Brewster
1961
Troughton in Tibet: Making 'The Abominable Snowmen'
Self (archive footage)
2022
Downtime
Professor Travers
1995
Quartet
Nicky Garnet (segment "The Facts of Life")
1948
The Naked Heart
Robert Gagnon
1950
Once a Sinner
John Ross
1950
Easy Money
Dennis Stafford
1948
Anna Karenina
Stiva Prince Oblonsky
1961Windfall
John Lee
1955
Who Was Maddox?
Jack Heath
1964Franklin's Farm
Philip
1972
That Woman Opposite
Toby Lawes
1957The Golden Link
Bill Howard
1954
Flat Two
Frank Leamington
1962
Flannelfoot
Frank Mitchell
1953
Dangerous Cargo
Tom Matthews
1954
The Solitary Child
Cyril
1958
Private Information
Hugh Carson
1952Links of Justice
Edgar Mills
1958
Wallpaper Warrior
Michael Foot M.P.
1992