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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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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.
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 May 1961
The RAF Group Captain has a hard job to restrain the aircraft-man from tinkering with everything he n
25 September 1962
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French.
01 January 1956
At the racetrack, cleaner, Willy Joy is tricked into buying Lindy Lou, a useless greyhound, who's not too healthy either.
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.
13 December 1955
Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abandons it with him.
07 August 1949
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
09 April 1953
Legendary England cricketer Sam Palmer (Jack Warner) is due to bat in his final test match against Australia.
18 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'.
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.
01 December 1972
Two funeral parlours fight one another for business, one of whom is more shady than the other.
07 June 1949
The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on the run from a violent boyfriend, a country vicar, and a newspaper reporter, sent by his editor, to do an undercover story.
01 April 1965
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant.
10 June 1957
Deborah and Charles, young executives at the thriving Pontifex Advertising Agency, are very much in love.
17 September 1957
The Commanding Officer of an RAF Training School must deal with a difficult cadet, but the cadet reminds the C.
25 October 1951
Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff.
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.
22 July 1953
Romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying to Paris for the weekend.
28 August 1956
Two aspiring songwriters finally manage to sell a tune by claiming that it was composed by a reclusive musical genius.
27 March 1963
Three airline hostesses combine their work crossing the Atlantic with searching for a rich handsome man to marry.
14 September 1962
After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison.
25 January 1955
The Germans believed that no man could escape from Colditz Castle, set as it was in the heart of the Reich, 400 miles from any neutral frontier.
02 November 1955
A couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show.
16 May 1956
An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.
16 December 1957
Thirty-five years after his premature death in 1968 Tony Hancock was voted Britain's best-ever comedy performer.
23 June 1949
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family.
21 November 1950
After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers finds work catalouging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton.
06 January 1959
A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a ship, he is less prepared for the social duties his new position involves, not least the way he in which becomes the target for all the unattached women on board.
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.
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!
02 June 1952
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities.
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 September 1956
Captain Vinka Kovalenko defects from Russia, but not for political reasons. She defects because she feels discriminated against as a woman.
26 August 1957
A kindly English botanist and a gruff American promoter lead an expedition to the Himalayas in search of the legendary Yeti.
12 January 1969
The eccentric professor Collins lives completely secluded in his chaotic apartment. When the model Penny moves in next to him, he becomes fascinated by her.
01 January 1959
Norman Truscott is a store worker who dreams of stardom. Vernon Carew is a singer whose star is fading.
19 April 1954
A widower refuses to let his three daughters marry in order to avoid paying settlements, so they'll just have to outsmart him.
01 March 1960
Newly wed couple Gay and Pel Butterworth are forced to take in some strange paying guests when their inheritance proves troublesome, but all is not as straight forward as it seems, when they discover they may have to divorce to get their hands on half the money.
23 October 1959
A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interview with Sir Mark Lodden at his home.
01 November 1965
Lighthearted spy drama about Boysie Oakes, who takes a nice job with the British Secret Service, enjoys all the perks, and signs all the forms before learning that his job depends on murdering people, and not romancing all the beautiful civilian staff in Whitehall.
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.
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.
03 October 1965
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
16 August 1974
Young Timmy starts as a window cleaner in the little company of his brother. Soon he learns that some female customers expect additional service.
23 November 1958
All her life, Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was where she belonged. Unqualified to be sent as a missionary, Gladys works as a domestic to earn to send herself to a poor, remote village.
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.
23 March 1954
The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970.
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.
13 June 1957
An American showgirl becomes entangled in political intrigue when the Prince Regent of a foreign country attempts to seduce her.
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.
10 November 1952
A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention.
03 April 1956
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack.
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 January 1971
An extended humorous public information film (lasting around fifteen minutes) narrated by Richard Wattis.
17 May 1962
The Willards from Terre Haute, Indiana travels abroad for the once-in-a-lifetime vacation in Paris, France.
25 January 1971
Joanna Lumley and Penny Brahms star as notorious prostitutes Fanny Hill and Lady Chatterley faced wiy
01 October 1954
One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.
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.
