Dodo Watts

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]

Dodo Watts
Picturegoer postcard c.1935 (photo by Dorothy Wilding)
Born	Dorothy Margaret Watts (1910-12-27)27 December 1910 London, England
Died	25 December 1990(1990-12-25) (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)