Donald Churchill
Known For
Acting
Born
1930-11-06 in Southall, Middlesex, England, UK
Died
1991-10-29
Biography
Donald Churchill (6 November 1930 – 29 October 1991) was an English actor and playwright. He appeared in many film and television productions over a 35-year period and wrote several TV scripts. His films included Barnacle Bill (1957), The Captain's Table (1959), Victim (1961), The Wild Affair (1964), Zeppelin (1971), The First Great Train Robbery (1978), Charlie Muffin (1979) and The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983) as Doctor Watson.[1] On television he starred in Bulldog Breed (1962), Spooner's Patch (1980-1982), played game show host Ronnie Kemp in Goodnight and God Bless (which Churchill also co-wrote, 1983), Mr Scott Eccles in an adaptation of "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" for The Return of Sherlock Holmes in 1988, and appeared in Stanley and the Women (1991) and C.A.T.S. Eyes. His plays include Mixed Feelings, The Decorator, and Moments of Weakness.
Most Known For
The Saint
as Dr. Spraque
Play for Today
as Tony Goodliffe
Sherlock Holmes
as Scott Eccles
The Wednesday Play
as Harold
Thirty-Minute Theatre
as Henry Bulstrode
Thirty-Minute Theatre
as Peter Spring
Van der Valk
as Johnny Roos
Sunday-Night Play
as Hugh Ramsden
Sunday-Night Play
as Sergeant Pilot 'Ace' Corner
Festival
as Charlie
Mystery and Imagination
as Eugene Corbeck
Gideon's Way
as James Lane
Detective
as George Carshaw
The First Great Train Robbery
as Prosecutor
Citizen Smith
as Murdoch
Spooner's Patch
as Inspector Spooner
Sink the Bismarck!
as Able Seaman - 'Ark Royal' (uncredited)
Knightsbridge
as Henry
It's Not Me - It's Them!
as Albert Curfew
The Hothouse
as Gordon Parsley