Derek Waring | |
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| Born | Derek Barton-Chapple 26 April 1927 |
| Died | 20 February 2007 (aged 79) Petworth, West Sussex, England |
| Occupation | Actor |
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| Children | 2 |
Derek Waring (born Derek Barton-Chapple; 26 April 1927 – 20 February 2007) was an English actor who is best remembered for playing Detective Inspector Goss in Z-Cars from 1969 to 1973. He was married to the actress Dame Dorothy Tutin.
Waring was born in Mill Hill, London in 1927; [1] his father was the TV pioneer Wing Commander H.J. Barton-Chapple, who had worked with John Logie Baird. [2] Waring's brother Richard was a television comedy scriptwriter. [1] After attending Dulwich College, Waring served with the army in Berlin. [1] He later turned down the offer of a place at St Edmund Hall, Oxford to take up a scholarship with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art [1] and then went into rep theatre. [3]
Waring's first television role was in a 1956 episode of The Jack Benny Programme . After that he appeared in many television programmes in small roles, including The Adventures of Sir Lancelot , The Adventures of Robin Hood , Ivanhoe , Dixon of Dock Green , Ghost Squad and Callan . [4] He played Louis in episode 28 of The Adventures of William Tell , "The Avenger" (1959). [5] In 1964, Waring married Dorothy Tutin; the couple had two children, Amanda and Nick, both of whom later became actors. [1]
In 1969, Waring started playing DI Neil Goss in the police drama Z-Cars and continued in this role for 215 episodes until 1973. Following Z-Cars he played Roland Moody in Moody and Pegg . [2] Later in the 1970s, Waring appeared in programmes such as Murder Most English, Crown Court , The New Avengers , Two's Company and George and Mildred . [4] In 1987, he played Harry Somers in the Scottish soap opera Take the High Road . During the 1980s he appeared on-screen in The Enigma Files , Never the Twain and The Professionals . In 1982, he appeared as Shardovan in the third and fourth parts of the Doctor Who serial "Castrovalva" . [6]
Waring was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and appeared in many productions including War of the Roses . [3] In the West End he appeared in Cowardy Custard , Suzie Wong and in the late 1980s The Boy Friend , which was his final West End appearance. On Broadway he played Prince Albert in Portrait of a Queen [2] opposite his wife who played Queen Victoria. [1]
In 1987, Waring appeared in the film Indian Summer. His last television role was playing Mr. Cooper-Bassett in a 1995 episode of Keeping Up Appearances . [6] He had married the actress Dorothy Tutin at the end of 1963. [7] The couple's two children were born in 1964 and 1966. [8] After his wife's death in 2001, Waring concentrated on radio work. [1] Waring died from cancer at Petworth Cottage Hospital in West Sussex in 2007, aged 79. [9]
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