Thorley Walters

THORLEY WALTERS d1991. English actor who featured in three of the St Trinian's films, starting as an army major in Blue Murder at St Trinian's. He later appeared as Butters, assistant to Education Ministry senior civil servant Culpepper-Brown (Eric Barker) in The Pure Hell of St Trinian's and played the part of Culpepper-Brown in The Wildcats of St Trinian's. From the 1960s onwards he also appeared in several Hammer horror films including ; The Phantom of the Opera (1962) / Dracula Prince of Darkness (1966) / Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) / Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) and Vampire Circus (1972). He was a close friend of Hammer's most important director Terence Fisher. He also played Sherlock Holmes's sidekick Doctor Watson in four unrelated films : Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962) / The Best House in London (1969) / The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975) and Silver Blaze (1977)