Frank Windsor obituary
almost 5 years in The guardian
Veteran actor best known as DS John Watt in the long-running television police drama Z Cars
A policeman’s lot is not a happy one for the actor stuck playing him for most of his professional life. Frank Windsor, who has died aged 92, was, as DS John Watt, one of the longest-serving coppers on the TV beat – in Z Cars and its BBC sequels and spin-offs from 1962 right through to 1978.
At this point, Windsor returned to the theatre to play a dotty doctor in Tom Stoppard’s Every Good Boy Deserves Favour at the Mermaid theatre – music by André Previn, direction by Trevor Nunn – revealing another side of his talent altogether, that of an incisive and hilarious comic actor; he’d given us a taste of that when he took over briefly from Patrick Stewart as an absurdly barnstorming Vladimir Lenin in Stoppard’s Travesties at the Aldwych (1974). Continue reading...
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