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Dodo Watts
British actress (1910–1990) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dorothy Margaret Watts (27 December 1910 – 25 December 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]
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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)
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