Donald Churchill
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.
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- Play for Today (1970) as Tony Goodliffe
- The Saint (1962) as Dr. Spraque
- Sherlock Holmes (1984) as Scott Eccles
- The Wednesday Play (1964) as Harold
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969) as Robert
- Sunday-Night Play (1960) as Hugh Ramsden
- Sunday-Night Play (1960) as Sergeant Pilot 'Ace' Corner
- Van der Valk (1972) as Johnny Roos
- Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965) as Henry Bulstrode
- Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965) as Peter Spring
- Gideon's Way (1965) as James Lane
- Festival (1963) as Charlie
- Mystery and Imagination (1966) as Eugene Corbeck
- Detective (1964) as George Carshaw
- Citizen Smith (1977) as Murdoch
- The Sandbaggers (1978) as Professor Colby
- Heartland (1979) as Henry Sutcliffe
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1986) as Scott Eccles
- The First Great Train Robbery (1978) as Prosecutor
- El C.I.D. (1990) as Metcalf
- Sink the Bismarck! (1960) as Able Seaman - 'Ark Royal' (uncredited)
- The Aweful Mr Goodall (1974) as Millbrook
- Armchair Theatre (1956) as Gordon Parsley
- Armchair Theatre (1956) as Michael Holland