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Acting

Jack Watling

Career: Active from 1943 to 2022, with a break from 1996 to 2020, with up to 3 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 19
top three billing

Average score: 64/100

Highest rated: The Nanny
79/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 29 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Jack Watling Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.0, average 5.4
Coming of Age
1.6, average 3.0
Violence
3.0, average 4.1
Fantasy
0.9, average 1.7

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 4
Classic British Crime 2
Class Conflict 2
Nostalgic Charm 2
Claustrophobic Atmosphere 2
British Cinema 2
Vintage Cinema 2
Underdog Story 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

82

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

2 titles

Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen

as Professor Travers (voice)

Doctor Who: The Web of Fear - Episode 3

as Professor Travers (voice)

1990s

5 titles · average score 72

Downtime

55

as Professor Travers

Heartbeat

80

TV show · as The Colonel

Wallpaper Warrior

as Michael Foot M.P.

The House of Eliott

73

TV show · as General Treves

Jeeves and Wooster

80

TV show · as Lord Wickhammersley

1980s

5 titles · average score 69

Fortunes of War

70

TV show · as Sir Desmond Hooper

Life Without George

TV show · as William

TV show · as Matthew Dennison

TV show · as Matthew Dennison

Bergerac

69

TV show · as Blakemore / Frank Blakemore

1970s

10 titles · average score 66

The Cedar Tree

TV show · as Arthur Bourne (2) / Julian Palmer

Rumpole of the Bailey

77

TV show · as Mr. X

Ten from the Twenties

TV show · as Sir Runnymede Clarke

11 Harrowhouse

64

as Fitzmaurice

Father Dear Father

52

as Bill Mossman

Pathfinders

TV show

as Tony

Franklin's Farm

as Philip

Jason King

73

TV show

The Misfit

TV show · as Reverend Tim Pritchard

1960s

20 titles · average score 74

Nearest and Dearest

75

TV show · as Cartwright

Softly, Softly

TV show

The Power Game

TV show · as Don Henderson

The Nanny

79

as Dr. Medman

Who Was Maddox?

as Jack Heath

Doctor Who

76

TV show · as Professor Travers

Flat Two

as Frank Leamington

Three on a Spree

as Mike Brewster

Mary Had a Little...

as Scott Raymond

Anna Karenina

62

as Stiva Prince Oblonsky

Danger Man

76

TV show · as Rollo Waters

Sink the Bismarck!

78

as RNVR Signals Officer

1950s

29 titles · average score 67

Links of Justice

as Edgar Mills

The Admirable Crichton

71

as Treherne

The Birthday Present

70

as Bill Thompson

Mr. Arkadin

72

as Marquis of Rutleigh

A Time to Kill

as Dennis Willows

The Adventures of Robin Hood

46

TV show · as Sir Leon

The Sea Shall Not Have Them

67

as Flying Officer Harding

Dangerous Cargo

as Tom Matthews

Meet Mr. Lucifer

55

as Jim Norton

Flannelfoot

as Frank Mitchell

Private Information

as Hugh Carson

Once a Sinner

as John Ross

1940s

10 titles · average score 64

Under Capricorn

48

as Winter

Easy Money

61

as Dennis Stafford

The Winslow Boy

73

as Dickie Winslow

Quartet

68

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

The Courtneys of Curzon Street

59

as Teddy Courtney

Journey Together

65

as John Aynesworth

The Way Ahead

84

as Sgt. Buster

We Dive at Dawn

61

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

The Demi-Paradise

62

as Tom

The Young Mr. Pitt

64

as Atkinson

1930s

1 title

Sixty Glorious Years

as Minor Role