
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
May 12, 1913
Died
July 6, 1991 (78 years old)
Teigngrace, Devon, England, UK
Also Known As
- Thorley Swinstead Walters
Thorley Walters
Biography
Thorley Swinstead Walters (12 May 1913 – 6 July 1991) was an English character actor.
He is probably best remembered for his comedy film roles such as in Two-Way Stretch and Carlton-Browne of the FO. He also appeared in the acclaimed TV drama Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
Walters played Sherlock Holmes sidekick Doctor Watson in four unrelated films: Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962), The Best House in London (1969), The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975), and Silver Blaze (1977).
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He featured in three of the St Trinian's movies, starting as an army major in Blue Murder at St Trinian's. He later appeared as Butters, assistant to Education Ministry senior civil servant Culpepper-Brown (Eric Barker) in The Pure Hell of St Trinian's and played the part of Culpepper-Brown in The Wildcats of St Trinian's.
In the 1960s he also appeared in several Hammer horror films, including The Phantom of the Opera (1962), Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1966), Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969).
In the DVD commentary to The Man Who Haunted Himself, Roger Moore mentioned that co-star Walters lived in Dolphin Square, the prestigious apartment block in Pimlico, London in which some scenes of the film were shot.
Thorley and Richard Hope-Hawkins visited the ailing Terry-Thomas in Barnes, London in 1989. Walters had starred with Terry in the Boulting Brother's film Carlton-Browne of the F.O., and was shocked at his appearance (he was ill with Parkinson's Disease). That visit resulted in the "Terry-Thomas Gala" held in the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in the same year which raised funds to help Terry live the rest of his life in comfort. Hope-Hawkins was with Walters and actress Siobhan Redmond, when he died in a London nursing home. Actor Ian Bannen gave the main address at his funeral held at Golders Green.
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Known For
Acting

A Murder of Quality
1991

Onassis: The Richest Man in the World
1988

The Little Drummer Girl
1984

The Sign of Four
1983

Minder
1979

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
1979

Tales of the Unexpected
1979

Worzel Gummidge
1979

The People That Time Forgot
1977

The Duchess of Duke Street
1976

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
1975

Soft Beds, Hard Battles
1974

Thriller
1973

Young Winston
1972

Vampire Circus
1972

The Persuaders!
1971

There's a Girl in My Soup
1970

Bartleby
1970

Trog
1970

The Man Who Haunted Himself
1970

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
1969

Oh! What a Lovely War
1969

Twisted Nerve
1968

Frankenstein Created Woman
1967







