James Cossins (4 December 1933 â€" 12 February 1997) was an English
character 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.He was born in Beckenham and educated at the City of London
School. After serving in the Royal Air Force, he trained at RADA where
he won the silver medal in 1952.He 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, he 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
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