Dorothy Margaret Watts (1910–1990), known professionally as Dodo Watts, was a British stage and film actress.[1] She played Fay Eaton in the 1929 Broadway version of Ian Hay's play The Middle Watch, and reprised her role in the 1930 British film version the following year.[2][3] When her career wound down, she became a business woman, owning a successful millinery firm in London's West End.[4] She was later a casting director, and head of casting for ABC Weekend TV (later Thames Television);[5] and largely responsible for casting Diana Rigg in the role of Emma Peel in The Avengers TV series.[6] She later became a theatrical agent.[4]
Dodo Watts | |
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 Picturegoer postcard c.1935 (photo by Dorothy Wilding) | |
| Born | Dorothy Margaret Watts 27 December 1910 London, England |
| Died | 25 December 1990 (aged 79) Teddington, Middlesex, England |
| Occupation(s) | Actress and casting director |
Partial filmography
- Confessions (1925)
- Auld Lang Syne (1929)
- The School for Scandal (1930)
- Almost a Honeymoon (1930)
- The Man from Chicago (1930)
- The Middle Watch (1930)
- Uneasy Virtue (1931)
- Her Night Out (1932)
- Impromptu (1932)
- Dora (1933)
- Hundred to One (1933)
- Little Fella (1933)
- Sing Along with Me (1952)