Richard Wattis

🎂 Data nașterii: 1912-02-25 (Wednesbury, Staffordshire, England, UK)

Richard Cameron Wattis (25 February 1912 – 1 February 1975) was an English actor. After leaving the family business, Wattis became an actor. His debut was with Croydon Repertory Theatre, and he made many stage appearances in the West End in London. His first appearance in a film was A Yank at Oxford (1938), but war service interrupted his career as an actor. He served as a second lieutenant in the Small Arms Section of Special Operations Executive at Station VI during World War II (James Bond author, Ian Fleming worked in the same section). He is best known for his appearances, wearing his thick-rimmed round spectacles, in British comedies of the 1950s and 1960s, often as a "Man from the Ministry" or similar character. He was also involved as the secretary to Lord Scrumptious in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Such appearances included the St Trinian's films (The Belles of St Trinian's, Blue Murder at St Trinian's, and The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery) as Manton Bassett, a civil servant who was the Deputy Director of Schools in the Ministry of Education, where he was often seen frowning and expressing indignation at the outrageous behaviour of other characters. To American audiences, Wattis is probably best known for his performance as the British civil servant Northbrook in The Prince and the Showgirl (1957). He broke from this typecasting in his later films, such as his starring role in Games That Lovers Play. Wattis's other films included Hobson's Choice, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Carry On Spying, The Colditz Story, Dentist on the Job, Very Important Person, The Happiest Days of Your Life, and The Longest Day. He also appeared on television, including a long-running role in Sykes, and appearances in Danger Man, The Prisoner, The Goodies, Hancock's Half Hour, and Father, Dear Father. From 1957 to 1958, he appeared as Peter Jamison in three episodes of the American sitcom Dick and the Duchess.

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Richard Wattis

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Nearly a Nasty Accident

The Importance of Being Earnest

Prințul și fata de spectacol

Ten Seconds to Hell

Carry On Spying

Confessions of a Window Cleaner

Colonel March Investigates

The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery

Operation Crossbow

The V.I.P.s

The Abominable Snowman

The Iron Petticoat

The Clouded Yellow

Barnacle Bill

Hobson's Choice

Wonderwall

Come Fly with Me

The Happiest Days of Your Life

Eric Sykes: One of the Great Troupers

I Thank a Fool

A Yank at Oxford

Made in Heaven

Too Close for Comfort

The Bargain

The Ballad of Tam Lin

Frumoasele de la St. Trinian

Top Secret

Take Me High

An Alligator Named Daisy

The Battle of the Villa Fiorita

Song of Paris

Doi dentiști dau lovitura

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Play It Cool

A Touch of the Sun

That's Your Funeral

You Must Be Joking

The Captain's Table

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

Left Right and Centre

The Time of His Life

The Chiltern Hundreds

As Long as They're Happy

Venus fra Vestø

Your Money or Your Wife

Diamante pe roți

Games That Lovers Play

Bunny Lake Is Missing

Up Jumped a Swagman

High Flight

Second Fiddle

Lease of Life

Libel

The Liquidator

Mother Riley Meets the Vampire

The Ugly Duckling

Innocents in Paris

Doctor in the House

Small Town Story

Top of the Form

Povestea Colditz

Simon and Laura

Egghead's Robot

Follow a Star

Background

Blood Orange

The Troublesome Double

Follow That Horse!

Casino Royale

Appointment in London

Kind Hearts and Coronets

A Yank in Ermine

Un asasinat complicat

It's a Wonderful World

Lady Godiva Rides Again

The Intruder

Eyewitness