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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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18 October 1953
When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment.
01 October 1956
A hotel porter is left a fortune but after living it up for a while he returns to his old place of work which is in financial difficulties.
03 October 1965
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
08 March 1950
Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions.
01 November 1965
Spy spoof about Boysie Oakes, a British secret agent who specialises in Liquidating. In actual fact he contracts out the work and pretends it was himself.
01 May 1961
The RAF Group Captain has a hard job to restrain the aircraft-man from tinkering with everything he n
17 December 1957
A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as ''
26 December 1965
The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.
19 April 1954
Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England.
18 October 1954
The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.
01 September 1963
Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.
28 September 1954
The unruly schoolgirls of St Trinian's are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey.
26 August 1957
A kindly English botanist and a gruff American promoter lead an expedition to the Himalayas in search of the legendary Yeti.
13 December 1955
Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abandons it with him.
14 August 1956
After a fight with her husband, Lucy runs out of the house, and into a night of terror. She heads for the local cinema, and in doing so, becomes the only eyewitness to a couple of crooks, who are robbing the cinema's safe.
18 February 1938
A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.
21 December 1956
Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing his targets with bombs.
01 March 1962
A struggling singer and his band befriend an heiress who, against the wishes of her father, is searching for the lover who she has been forbidden to see and with whom she is hoping to elope.
16 May 1956
A couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot.
11 September 1953
Suave private investigator Norman Conquest intercepts a secret message and meets a beautiful but foreign blonde lady in room 605 of the Park Plaza hotel.
11 March 1966
The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden in their school.
08 October 1951
At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on the islands and the Nazis mustn't get hold of her.
17 February 1953
Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England. Having flown eighty-seven missions he will shortly be retiring from flying, but the strain is showing.
26 May 1965
Two British children travel to Italy in an attempt to break up their runaway mother's affair with an Italian concert pianist.
01 December 1972
Two funeral parlours fight one another for business, one of whom is more shady than the other.
13 April 1967
Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'.
01 September 1956
Captain Vinka Kovalenko defects from Russia, but not for political reasons. She defects because she feels discriminated against as a woman.
17 December 1968
A hapless inventor finally finds success with a flying car, which a dictator from a foreign government sets out to take for himself.
09 April 1953
Legendary England cricketer Sam Palmer (Jack Warner) is due to bat in his final test match against Australia.
01 December 1957
With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty's prison, the St Trinian's girls find themselves under the protection of the army.
17 September 1957
The Commanding Officer of an RAF Training School must deal with a difficult cadet, but the cadet reminds the C.
21 July 1955
Just before the Nazis ascend to power in Berlin, Chris, an aspiring novelist from England, meets flamboyant cabaret entertainer Sally Bowles and an unusual friendship is born.
01 April 1965
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant.
10 February 1952
An archetypal Englishman returns from a jaunt abroad to face a dastardly foreign count in a screwball duel for the hand of a beautiful mademoiselle.
07 January 1949
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
10 June 1957
Deborah and Charles, young executives at the thriving Pontifex Advertising Agency, are very much in love.
01 October 1954
One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.
02 November 1955
A couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show.
25 September 1962
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French.
23 June 1959
At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists.
27 September 1949
Young Viscount Tony Pym wangles National Service leave on the pretext of standing as a Tory candidate for a local seat held by his family for generations.
01 June 1961
Colonel Proudfoot of Proudfoot Industries tries to entice a couple of newly qualified dentists to advertise "Dreem", a revolutionary type of toothpaste, but he knows that if the dentists learn that they are part of an advertising campaign, they will be struck off, and the campaign will be a disaster.
28 August 1956
Two aspiring songwriters finally manage to sell a tune by claiming that it was composed by a reclusive musical genius.
23 April 1959
Two rivals from a German bomb squad are left to deactivate duds in postwar Berlin.
07 December 1973
Tim (Cliff Richard) is a successful ambitious young financier working for a London Merchant bank, but even his happy-go-lucky attitude is severely jolted when he is sent to Birmingham instead of his promised New York for his posting!
24 April 1961
Comedy set in World War Two, starring James Robertson-Justice and Leslie Phillips. Sir Ernest Pease (Robertson-Justice) is a self-important scientist who is sent undercover on a bombing mission to monitor the effectiveness of his latest invention, a new-fangled radar.
22 July 1953
Romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying to Paris for the weekend.
01 July 1953
This is a feature-length compilation of three short episodes taken from a TV series called 'Colonel March of Scotland Yard' (1954-56, 26 episodes) starring Boris Karloff as Colonel March, head of Scotland Yard's Department D.
01 November 1952
Residents of the small English village of Dunmow react in comical ways when the Topham family hires a beautiful and young Hungarian maid.
01 December 1970
Based upon the Celtic legend Tam Lin, a young man is bewitched by a beautiful, heartless, aging sorceress to become her lover.
01 June 1964
Carry On favourite Barbara Windsor makes her debut in this outrageous send-up of the James Bond movies.
01 January 1959
Norman Truscott is a store worker who dreams of stardom. Vernon Carew is a singer whose star is fading.
30 December 1972
A series of vignettes exposing how women manipulate their men into submission.
09 November 1953
Two years of deterioration sees John and Barbara Lomax's marriage reduced to bitter sniping and "keeping up appearances" for the sake of the children.
21 December 1953
Canadian ex-serviceman Bob Regan returns to Oldchester, the English town where he was posted during the war.
03 April 1956
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack.
01 January 1970
'Egghead' Wentworth adapts his father's robot paratrooper to perform his chores, but forgets to programme it to keep him out of trouble.
01 January 1955
Mr Pastry's social climbing daughter, president of a society for the rehabilitation for ex-convicts, hides the fact that her father is himself a prisoner.
01 January 1955
An American airman inherits an Earldom in England along with the small matter of $3 million on the proviso that he gives up his US citizenship.
13 June 1957
An American showgirl becomes entangled in political intrigue when the Prince Regent of a foreign country attempts to seduce her.
