Jack Watling

JACK WATLING d2001. English actor who had a long career in low-key British films. His early appearances were in ; Cottage to Let (1941) / We Dive at Dawn (1943) / The Demi-Paradise (1943) opposite Laurence Olivier / The Way Ahead (1944) with David Niven / The Winslow Boy (1948) and in Orson Welles' Mr Arkadin. He played Professor Edward Travers in the BBC science-fiction television series Doctor Who in the serials The Abominable Snowmen (1967) and The Web of Fear (1968) both of which also featuring his daughter Deborah Watling as the Second Doctor's companion Victoria Waterfield. He reprised the role decades later in the independent Doctor Who spin-off video Downtime (1995)