Jack Watson - Turner Classic Movies

Biography

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Actor Jack Watson appeared in a variety of films over the course of his Hollywood career. Watson's earliest roles were in film, including the crime flick "Peeping Tom" (1960) with Karlheinz Böhm, the drama "The Queen's Guards" (1963) with Raymond Massey and "This Sporting Life" (1963). He also appeared in "The Hill" (1965), the drama "The Idol" (1966) with Jennifer Jones and the Jam...

Filmography

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New World (1986)

The Sea Wolves (1980)

The Wild Geese (1978)

Un Taxi mauve (1977)

11 Harrowhouse (1974)

Photos & Videos

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Gorgon, The (1964) -- (Movie Clip) They're Bringing The Body In Now

Hill, The (1965) -- (Movie Clip) A-1 Fit For Punishment

Biography

Actor Jack Watson appeared in a variety of films over the course of his Hollywood career. Watson's earliest roles were in film, including the crime flick "Peeping Tom" (1960) with Karlheinz Böhm, the drama "The Queen's Guards" (1963) with Raymond Massey and "This Sporting Life" (1963). He also appeared in "The Hill" (1965), the drama "The Idol" (1966) with Jennifer Jones and the James Garner dramatic sports film "Grand Prix" (1966). He kept working in film throughout the seventies, starring in the war "The McKenzie Break" (1970) with Brian Keith, the Marty Feldman comedy "Every Home Should Have One" (1970) and the adventure "Kidnapped" (1971) with Michael Caine. He also appeared in the Bryant Haliday horror feature "Horror On Snape Island" (1972). Watson was most recently credited in "The Second Coming" (BBC, 2003-04). He also had a part in the TV miniseries "Masada" (1980-81). Watson passed away in July 1999 at the age of 84.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

New World (1986)

The Sea Wolves (1980)

The Wild Geese (1978)

Un Taxi mauve (1977)

11 Harrowhouse (1974)

Beyond The Fog (1972)

Kidnapped (1971)

The McKenzie Break (1970)

Decline and Fall ... of a Bird Watcher (1969)

The Devil's Brigade (1968)

Cpl. Wilfred Peacock

The Strange Affair (1968)

Sergeant Major Tyne

Grand Prix (1966)

The Idol (1966)

Police inspector

The Gorgon (1965)

The Hill (1965)

Master Spy (1964)

This Sporting Life (1963)

The Queen's Guards (1963)

Sergeant Johnson

Superintendent Brown

Peeping Tom (1960)

Inspector Gregg

Cast (Special)

Twenty-Five Years of the Presidency (1986)

Producer (Special)

The Rainbow Girl (1982)

Associate Producer

Monty Hall's Variety Hour (1976)

Film Production - Main (Special)

The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond (1975)

Production Consultant

Cast (TV Mini-Series)

The Second Coming (2003)

Christopher Columbus (1985)

Life Events

Videos

Gorgon, The (1964) -- (Movie Clip) They're Bringing The Body In Now After the murder of an artists’ model in some Carpathian forest, we meet Peter Cushing as the local scientist-doctor, Barbara Shelley his assistant, Patrick Troughton the policeman, and Jack Watson as Ratoff, then the weird discovery, early in Hammer Films’ The Gorgon, 1964.

Hill, The (1965) -- (Movie Clip) A-1 Fit For Punishment At a British military stockade In WWII North Africa, Sgt. Williams (Ian Hendry) works out the prisoners (Sean Connery, Ossie Davis, Jack Watson, Roy Kinnear and Alfred Lynch as Stevens), and Harris (Ian Bannen) fails to persuade commandant Wilson (Harry Andrews) to ease up, in The Hill, 1965.

Hill, The (1965) -- (Movie Clip) Let's Have Your Names Sergeant Major Wilson (Harry Andrews) interviews five new prisoners (Ossie Davis, Roy Kinnear, Jack Watson, Alfred Lynch, Sean Connery), delivered from their own courts-martial, at a British WWII military stockade in North Africa, early in Sidney Lumet's The Hill, 1965.

This Sporting Life (1963) -- (Movie Clip) Just A Bit Dazed Director Lindsay Anderson’s opening, Richard Harris, himself a formidable player in his college years, in an English rugby match, getting thumped, initiating flashbacks to his days as a miner, and his emotional involvement with his landlady Rachel Roberts, in This Sporting Life, 1963.

This Sporting Life (1963) -- (Movie Clip) You Want A Thumping, Love? In a flashback, Richard Harris is Frank, a coal miner, whom we know soon becomes a star rugby player, denied entrance to a night club, bashing his way in when the rugby team arrives, picking a fight with colleague Len (Jack Watson), Colin Blakely as Maurice, in This Sporting Life, 1963.

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