James Cossins
Actor/Actriz
43
Movies
33
TV Shows
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
As Actor/Actress
Coronation Street
Mr. Soames
Minder
Judge
Los vengadores
Henry
Crown Court
Bergerac
Tuchel
The Sweeney
Colonel Rosier
Theatre 625
Henry
Todas las criaturas grandes y pequeñas
Mr. Barge
No Hiding Place
Thriller
Kellet
Murder Most Horrid
Sir Hugh Lotterby
Van der Valk
Noordhoff
Justice
Mr. Ritson
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Dr. Jervis
Fawlty Towers
Mr. Walt
Callan
Churchill's People
William
Mystery and Imagination
Landlord
La caída de las águilas
Count Josi Hoyos
The Pallisers
Sergeant Bunfit
007: El hombre del revólver de oro
Colthorpe
Citizen Smith
Court Judge
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
Magistrate
Gandhi
Brigadier
Centre Play
Burret
The Likely Lads
Scoutmaster
The Good Life
Magistrate
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
El primer gran asalto al tren
Harranby
Blood from the Mummy's Tomb
Older Male Nurse