Queenie Watts

Acting

Queenie Watts

Born July 21, 1926 · London, England, UK

Died January 25, 1980 · aged 53

Queenie Watts was an English actress of film and television, as well as an occasional singer. A resident Londoner 'til the day she died, Watts starred in many films and TV programmes and ran pubs  (including the Iron Bridge Tavern, East India Dock Road, London and the Rose and Crown, Pennyfields, Poplar) with her husband, "Slim Watts", where she also sang and played piano with an eight-piece band …

Known For

AlfieAlfie · 1966
Alfie
★ 6.51966
MovieComedyDrama
A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.
The Best House in LondonThe Best House in London · 1969
The Best House in London
★ 4.01969
MovieComedy
In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of street prostitution by establishing the world's most fabulous brothel.
Sparrows Can't SingSparrows Can't Sing · 1963
Sparrows Can't Sing
★ 5.31963
MovieComedyDrama
Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up with married bus driver Bert and a toddler, and they all watch with more than a little interest at the trail of mayhem Charlie leaves as he goes about sorting things out.
All Coppers Are...All Coppers Are... · 1972
All Coppers Are...
★ 7.11972
MovieDrama
A young policeman and a small-time crook are both involved with the same girl.
Come Play with MeCome Play with Me · 1977
Come Play with Me
★ 4.71977
MovieComedy
Two alluring young ladies live with their beautiful widowed aunt on a secluded wooded estate. The women have earned themselves quite a reputation in the surrounding towns and men from all over the region are frequent visitors to the small countryside home, hoping to encounter one, or preferably both, of the seductive nieces. Of course, the aunt has equally strong desires and refuses to be outdone. Soon all three are offering the many courters the chance to Come Play with Me!
Poor CowPoor Cow · 1967
Poor Cow
★ 6.41967
MovieDrama
Joy lives a life filled with bad choices. At a young age, she marries and has a child–with an abusive thief who quickly ends up incarcerated. Left alone, she takes up with the guy's mate, another thief, who seems to give her some happiness but who also ends up locked up. She then takes up with a series of seedy types who offer nothing but momentary pleasure–if that.
SchizoSchizo · 1976
Schizo
★ 5.61976
MovieDramaHorror
A recently-married woman who has been labeled as mentally unstable, begins to suspect that someone close to her is the culprit in a sudden string of murders.
Up the JunctionUp the Junction · 1968
Up the Junction
★ 6.21968
MovieDrama
A young woman trades her upper-class existence for a new life in an economically depressed suburb of London.

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Romany JonesRomany Jones · 1972
Romany Jones
★ 6.81972
SeriesComedy
Romany Jones is a British sitcom created and written by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe for LWT. Broadcast between 1973 and 1975, the programme follows the comic misadventures of two layabout families living on a caravan site. Originally designed as a starring vehicle for James Beck (Dad's Army), the 1972 pilot and 1973 first series centred on Bert and Betty Jones (Jo Rowbottom), newlywed after seven years, who spend their wedding night in their rickety caravan, natural to Bert but distinctly alien to Betty, born and bred in Streatham. Most of the humour focused on life in theirs and a neighbouring caravan housing Lily and Wally Briggs (Queenie Watts and Arthur Mullard, although Arthur English was cast in the pilot). Following Beck's death after completion on the second series, Bert and Betty were written out, and replaced with a city gentleman and his debutante wife, both of whom remain blissfully oblivious to the Briggs' antics.

Lily Briggs

Never Mind the Quality, Feel the WidthNever Mind the Quality, Feel the Width · 1967
Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width
★ 4.41967
SeriesComedy
Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width is a British sitcom first broadcast in 1967 as a single play in the Armchair Theatre anthology series, later becoming a series of half-hour episodes, which ran until 1971. A total of 40 episodes were produced, all but one being believed to have aired. It was originally made by ABC Television for the ITV network, with its production being continued by Thames Television. The plot revolves around two tailors in business together: Jewish Manny Cohen and Irish Catholic Patrick Kelly. Above their shop works Lewtas, who is also Jewish and imports cloth. Two further prominent characters in the first three series are Rabbi Levy from the local synagogue, and Father Ryan from the local Catholic church.