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James Cossins (4 December 1933 – 12 February 1997) was an English actor. Born in Beckenham, Kent, he became widely recognised as the abrupt, bewildered Mr Walt in the Fawlty Towers episode "The Hotel Inspectors" and as Mr Watson, the frustrated Public Relations training course instructor, in an episode of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em. Cossins was born in Beckenham and educated at the City of London School. After serving in the Royal Air Force, he trained at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he won the silver medal in 1952. Cossins first appeared in repertory theatre and at the Nottingham Playhouse. He played a wide range of characters throughout his colourful and extensive career on television and stage, often portraying blustering, pompous, crusty and cantankerous characters. Cossins appeared in Charley's Aunt at the Apollo Theatre in 1971 with Tom Courtenay, David Horovitch, Garth Forwood, Joanna McCallum, and Celia Bannerman. He appeared in more than forty films, including The Anniversary (recreating his West End stage role), and The Lost Continent (both 1968), Gandhi (1982), and The Man with the Golden Gun (1974). On the small screen, Cossins appeared as a guest in a variety of shows, including The Likely Lads and Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Minder, Bergerac, The Sweeney, Bless This House, Shadows, All Creatures Great and Small, Citizen Smith, Just William, The Good Life, L for Lester, Neville Dennis in Callan "Rules of the Game" (1972), Z-Cars, and as the regular character Bruce Westrop (in 1979) in Emmerdale Farm. He also played Major Bagstock in Dombey and Son (1983), and appeared in the first series of All in Good Faith in 1985. He played a magistrate in episodes of four different British sitcoms, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, The Good Life, Citizen Smith and Minder. Cossins's later appearances were limited by ill health and he lived in semi-retirement in Surrey. Cossins died from heart disease at the age of 63, in 1997
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1933-12-04
- event Death Date 1997-02-12
- school Known for: Acting
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6.1
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1973-04-19
5.8
Death Line
1972-10-13
6.4
Villain
1971-05-26
5.6
The Lost Continent
1968-06-19
5.6
The Masks of Death
1984-12-23
5.6
Sphinx
1981-02-11
5.9
Fear in the Night
1972-07-09
0
The Incredible Robert Baldick: Never Come Night
1972-10-06
6.7
Privilege
1967-02-28
6.6
The Anniversary
1968-02-07
6.2
Wuthering Heights
1970-06-09
0
Unnatural Causes
1993-01-02
6.5
The Man with the Golden Gun
1974-12-04
0
Love's Labour's Lost
1965-05-06
4.8
A Day Out
1972-12-24
7.6
Gandhi
1982-12-01
0
Mad Jack
1970-02-04
0
The Invasion
1963-03-31
0
That Sinking Feeling
1973-11-13
0
The Breaking of Colonel Keyser
1972-10-17
7
Timon of Athens
1981-04-16
6.6
Carry On Camping
1969-05-29
0
What Next?
1974-01-01
4.2
Say Hello to Yesterday
1971-01-14
5.2
Immaculate Conception
1992-09-11
6.7
The First Great Train Robbery
1978-12-14
7.2
Melody
1971-03-28
6.2
Otley
1969-03-11
5.5
How I Won the War
1967-10-18
5.6
Blood from the Mummy's Tomb
1971-06-16
6.7
Darling
1965-08-03
0
The Rainbirds
1971-02-11
0
The Piano
1971-01-28
6.4
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
1980-03-30
6.2
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
1970-11-12
5.7
Bequest to the Nation
1973-04-18
5.8
The Horror of Frankenstein
1970-11-08
0
Aliens
1982-11-30
4.3
The Deadly Bees
1966-12-23
6
Possession
1973-04-11
6.8
A Dandy in Aspic
1968-04-02
6.2
Young Winston
1972-07-20
1
Grand Larceny
1987-01-01
0
Strife
1965-09-06
2
All in Good Faith
1985-12-30
6.6
Thriller
1973-04-14
6.6
Murder Most Horrid
1991-11-14
7.7
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
1973-01-09
8.3
Fawlty Towers
1975-09-19
7.8
The Sweeney
1975-01-02
5.4
Crown Court
1972-10-11
6.2
Citizen Smith
1977-04-12
7
Callan
1967-07-08
7.6
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
1973-02-15
5.8
Van der Valk
1972-09-13
7.3
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971-09-20
3.7
No Hiding Place
1959-09-16
6.8
Fall of Eagles
1974-03-15
5.5
Mystery and Imagination
1966-01-29
5
Call Me Mister
1986-09-05
6
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978-12-03
0
Marjorie And Men
1985-06-28
6.8
Minder
1979-10-29
5.4
Crown Court
1972-10-11
6.7
Bergerac
1981-10-18
5
Pretenders
1972-02-27
6
Justice
1971-10-08
6.7
Bergerac
1981-10-18
7.3
Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel
1987-01-25
7.7
All Creatures Great and Small
1978-01-08
7.7
All Creatures Great and Small
1978-01-08
7.6
The Good Life
1975-04-04
7.2
The Likely Lads
1964-12-16
7.2
The Likely Lads
1964-12-16
7.8
The Avengers
1961-01-07
0
Bel Ami
1971-05-08
0
Londoners
1965-05-13
0
The Ten Commandments
1971-03-30