Jack Watling
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1923-01-13
Locus Natus: Chingford, Essex, England, UK
Et ut: Jack Stanley Watling
The Way Ahead
A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to...
release : 1944.06.09popularis : 2.617
Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen
The Doctor revisits the Himalayas because he wants to return an ancient relic he was given many centuries ago. On arriving however, the Doctor is...
release : 2022.09.05popularis : 0.417
The Nanny
Nanny, a London family's live-in maid, brings morbid 10-year-old Joey back from the psychiatric ward he's been in for two years, since the death of...
release : 1965.10.07popularis : 10.661
The Sea Shall Not Have Them
During autumn of 1944, an RAF Hudson carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information is shot down and ditches in the North Sea....
release : 1954.06.01popularis : 3.245
Sink the Bismarck!
The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World...
release : 1960.02.11popularis : 13.808
A Time to Kill
A man and a woman are poisoned. The woman dies, but the man survives. The finger of blame begins to point at the man. A policeman and a newspaper...
release : 1955.11.01popularis : 2.024
That Woman Opposite
In a French coastal town, Det. Dermot Kinross is inspecting the murder of antiques dealer Maurice Lawes, and the evidence points to Lawes's son, Toby...
release : 1957.05.28popularis : 1.435
The Winslow Boy
In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
release : 1948.09.24popularis : 1.905
Easy Money
A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the...
release : 1948.01.20popularis : 2.38
Father Dear Father
After divorcing his wife, Patrick Glover decides it is time to remarry, and chooses his literary agent, only to then mistakenly propose to the...
release : 1973.05.25popularis : 1.854
Journey Together
Two Englishmen (Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling) train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.
release : 1945.10.01popularis : 1.918
Father's Doing Fine
Lady Buckering, an English widow, has four daughters; Doreen, married to Dougall and about to give birth at home, and Gerda, Bicky and Catherine. The...
release : 1952.08.15popularis : 2.31
Meet Mr. Lucifer
A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.
release : 1953.11.30popularis : 3.056
Mary Had a Little...
A theatrical impresario tries to win a bet with a psychiatrist over the production of a perfect baby.
release : 1961.07.25popularis : 1.53
The Naked Heart
At the beginning of the 20th century, in the North of the Province of Quebec. After five years spent in a boarding school, Maria Chapdelaine comes...
release : 1950.11.16popularis : 1.154
The Demi-Paradise
Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking...
release : 1943.11.18popularis : 2.765
Dangerous Cargo
Inspired by the real events of the attempted heist at Heathrow Airport in 1952, a criminal tricks an old friend into giving away the location of a...
release : 1954.05.01popularis : 2.059
Once a Sinner
Impoverished British bank clerk John Ross is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James. Ross will do anything to win Irene's affections...
release : 1950.07.01popularis : 4.418
Doctor Who: The Web of Fear - Episode 3
Jamie tries to evade Yeti in the tunnels of the London Underground. Meanwhile, The Doctor and Victoria meet a potential new ally - Colonel...
release : 2021.08.16popularis : 0.352
Myth Makers 10: Deborah Watling
Deborah Watling portrayed Victoria Waterfield during Patrick Troughton’s tenure as The Doctor. Famous for the practical jokes that went on...
release : 1986.06.24popularis : 2.64
Flat Two
A victim's boyfriend sneaks into a blackmailer's flat to sort him out, but another man's already there, and both don't realise the crook has been...
release : 1962.02.01popularis : 0.599
Who Was Maddox?
A publisher is nearly framed for murder, but he appears to have been goaded by the blackmailer who has also blackmailed the publisher's wife.
release : 1964.06.01popularis : 1.074
Flannelfoot
Ace crime reporter Watling tries to discover the identity of a notorious jewel thief, but his informant is murdered. At a house party, Watling helps...
release : 1953.11.01popularis : 1.06
The Courtneys of Curzon Street
On New Years Eve, 1899, baronet's son Edward Courtney becomes engaged to Kate, his mother's maid, much to the scandal of London society. The film...
release : 1947.04.11popularis : 3.984
Downtime
Retired commander of the United Nations' Intelligence Taskforce, and long-time associate of the mysterious time traveler the Doctor, Brigadier...
release : 1995.02.03popularis : 1.884
Troughton in Tibet: Making 'The Abominable Snowmen'
A look at the making of the Doctor Who (1963) story "The Abominable Snowmen" (1967).
release : 2022.09.05popularis : 0.456
Private Information
A woman suspects that the local council is corrupt and building defective drains that could cause public health issues.
release : 1952.03.26popularis : 1.723
Under Capricorn
A native Briton banished to Australia for murder, and his wife, Henrietta, the disturbed sister of the man he was convicted on killing, set out to...
release : 1949.09.08popularis : 7.886
The Birthday Present
Returning from a business trip, toy salesman Simon Scott is caught attempting to smuggle a wristwatch bought for his wife's birthday through Customs....
release : 1957.10.31popularis : 1.652
Nothing Barred
Penniless Lord Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor to the public. But the public ignores his gesture,...
release : 1961.10.10popularis : 0.922
The Solitary Child
A young woman marries a gentleman farmer who may have murdered his first wife.
release : 1958.12.09popularis : 0.664
Franklin's Farm
A grandson's attempt to help his grandma produces problems for the family.
release : 1972.09.19popularis : 0.5
Three on a Spree
A young man will inherit a huge fortune--8 million pounds--but to qualify, he must spend a million pounds in just two months. Easy to do? That's what...
release : 1961.06.28popularis : 1.077
Wallpaper Warrior
A dramatization of incidents involving Eddie Horner, a factory worker active in union politics radicalized to murder.
release : 1992.10.02popularis : 0.854
Chain of Events
When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks a series of unforseen consequences
release : 1958.09.30popularis : 1.242
Mr. Arkadin
Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember...
release : 1955.08.09popularis : 6.819
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
Barry McKenzie sets off for England with his aunt, Edna Everage, to advance his cultural education. Bazza is an innocent abroad, fond of beer, Bondi...
release : 1972.10.12popularis : 1.263
Sixty Glorious Years
Continuing the story of 'Victoria the Great'.
release : 1938.11.18popularis : 1.905
Anna Karenina
Anna, the wife of government minister Alexis Karenin, visits Moscow to help straighten out a family quarrel. There, Count Alexis Vronsky falls in...
release : 1961.11.03popularis : 2.149
Quartet
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."
release : 1948.10.26popularis : 5.238
The Admirable Crichton
Lord Loam has modern ideas about his household, he believes in treating his servants as his equals - at least sometimes. His butler, Crichton, still...
release : 1957.06.11popularis : 8.144
Reach for the Sky
The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing...
release : 1956.07.05popularis : 2.537
A Night to Remember
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the...
release : 1958.07.03popularis : 10.99
Gideon's Day
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From...
release : 1958.03.25popularis : 2.447
We Dive at Dawn
A gripping tale of WWII naval warfare in the Baltics, starring John Mills as Lt. Freddie Taylor, a British submarine Captain. The crew of the Sea...
release : 1943.04.15popularis : 3.978
Doctor Who: The Web of Fear
The TARDIS narrowly avoids becoming engulfed in a cobwebby substance in space. It arrives in the London Underground railway system, the tunnels of...
release : 1968.03.09popularis : 0.511
Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen
Mysterious forces are at work in 1930s Tibet. The once gentle Yeti have turned savage and besieged a Buddhist monastery. The Second Doctor, Jamie and...
release : 1967.11.04popularis : 0.603
11 Harrowhouse
A small time diamond merchant jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a large first class diamond. But when the diamond is...
release : 1974.09.26popularis : 2.852
White Corridors
White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the story concentrates on the day-to-day activities in a...
release : 1951.01.12popularis : 4.183