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Celebrating television's This Is Your Life
Queenie WATTS (1923-1980)
THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Queenie Watts, actress and singer, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews.
Queenie, who was born in the Isle of Dogs, London, ran two pubs in the East End with her husband, Slim, during the 1960s - the Iron Bridge Tavern on East India Dock Road and the Rose and Crown in Pennyfields.
She appeared in many British films, including Sparrers Can't Sing, Alfie, Half a Sixpence and Poor Cow. However, she was best known on television for the ITV sitcom Romany Jones, first screened in 1972.
programme details...
- Edition No: 399
- Subject No: 398
- Broadcast date: Wed 22 Jan 1975
- Broadcast time: 7.00-7.30pm
- Recorded: Wed 8 Jan 1975
- Venue: unknown
- Series: 15
- Edition: 12
- Code name: Sparrow
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- Researcher: unknown
- Writer: unknown
- Director: Robert Reed
- Producer: Jack Crawshaw
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Series 15 subjects
Jack Ashley | John Conteh | Jack Howarth | Chay Blyth | Bill Maynard | Richard O'Sullivan | Dick Francis | Arthur AskeyJean Kent | Geoff Love | Ray Cooney | Queenie Watts | Harry Johnson | Leonard Rossiter | John Hanson | Denis Law
Ted Ray | Peter Butterworth | Nina Baden-Semper | Dickie Davies | Moira Anderson | Precious McKenzie | Mollie Sugden
Michael Bates | Willie John McBride | Petula Clark | Garfield Sobers