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  Moray Watson, the dependable character actor who spent 60 years in the business working with major stars

  Moray Watson’s 2016 autobiography was titled Looking Back and Dropping Names. As one of Britain’s most recognisable and dependable character actors, often in supporting roles as colonels, aristocrats or judges, he was able to litter the book with dozens of the biggest names on stage and screen. After his introduction to television audiences as assistant control engineer Peter Marsh in the landmark sci-fi serial The Quatermass Experiment (1953), Watson switched to soap opera, spending a year (1

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  Brief Encounter clock stilled by row over 'racist' comments about child migrants

  Standing above the station platform where they first met it was the timepiece which, with an iron hand, governed Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson’s short-lived affair and determined when they should part. Jim Walker has been banned from key parts of the station at Carnforth, in Lancashire, after he was overheard by a member of the public talking about comments about child migrants and refugees. As a result the clock - which in the film signals when Johnson’s character Laura must leave Alec, pla

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