
James Cossins
- Recitazione
- 4 dicembre 1933 – 12 febbraio 1997 · a 63 anni
- Beckenham, Kent, England, UK
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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Filmografia47
- 1991
Murder Most HorridSerie TV6.9
- 1987

Grand LarcenyFilm5.0
- 1984
- 1982
GandhiFilm7.6
- 1981
- 1979
MinderSerie TV7.2
- 1978

All Creatures Great and SmallSerie TV7.8
- 1975
Fawlty TowersSerie TV8.3
The Good LifeSerie TV7.7

- 1974
Churchill's PeopleSerie TV5.0

- 1973
Centre PlaySerie TV7.0

ThrillerSerie TV7.0
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'EmSerie TV7.6
- 1972
Crown CourtSerie TV5.7

Van der ValkSerie TV6.2



- 1971

JusticeSerie TV7.3
The Rivals of Sherlock HolmesSerie TV7.5


- 1970
- 1969
Carry On CampingFilm6.6
- 1968
- 1967
CallanSerie TV7.0
- 1966

Mystery and ImaginationSerie TV5.8
- 1965
Thirty-Minute TheatreSerie TV4.2
DarlingFilm6.7
- 1964
Theatre 625Serie TV7.2
- 1961
- 1960
Coronation StreetSerie TV5.3
- 1959
No Hiding PlaceSerie TV4.8










