Creator / Nigel Stock

Nigel Stock (21 September 1919 - 23 June 1986) was a British actor. He is best remembered for playing Dr. Watson in the 1960s BBC TV adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes stories, alongside two different actors as Holmes; first Douglas Wilmer, then Peter Cushing.

He was a stalwart of genre television including: The Saint, Danger Man, The Avengers, Adam Adamant Lives!, The Prisoner, Doomwatch, Colditz, Van der Valk, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Doctor Who and Yes, Minister. His notable film work includes Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Brighton Rock, The Dam Busters and The Great Escape.

His roles in works with pages on TV Tropes:

Film

• The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936) — Office boy
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) — John Forrester
• Brighton Rock (1948) — Cubitt
• The Dam Busters (1955) — Spafford
• Victim (1961) — Phip
• H.M.S. Defiant (1962) — Senior Midshipman Kilpatrick
• The Great Escape (1963) — Cavendish
• Weekend at Dunkirk (1964) — English sergeant
• The Night of the Generals (1967) — Otto
• The Lost Continent (1968) — Dr. Webster
• The Lion in Winter (1968) — William Marshal
• Cromwell (1970) — Sir Edward Hyde
• Operation Daybreak (1975) — General
• Yellowbeard (1983) — Admiral
• Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) — Rupert T. Waxflatter

TV

• Out Of This World: episode "The Yellow Pill" (1962) — Dr. John Frame
• The Saint: episode "The Invisible Millionaire" (1963) — Jim Chase
• The Avengers episodes:
  • "Concerto" (1964) — Zalenko
  • "A Sense of History" (1966) — Richard Carlyon
• Danger Man: episode "Loyalty Always Pays" (1965) — Major Bert Barrington
• Out of the Unknown: episode "Second Childhood" (1966) — Charles Dennistoun
• Adam Adamant Lives!: episode "The Deadly Bullet" (1967) — Oliver Meadows
• The Prisoner: episode "Do Not Forsake Me Oh my Darling" (1967) — The Colonel^note For most of the episode, he is effectively playing the series' lead character Number Six, whose mind has been swapped into the body of the Colonel
• Doomwatch: episode "Project Sahara" (1970) — Commander Charles Keeping
• Play for Today episodes:
  • "I Can't See My Little Willie" (1970) — Arthur Palmer
  • "Dear Brutus" (1981) — Coade
  • "The Union" (1981) — Harry Pollitt
• Colditz: episode "Name, Rank and Number" (1972) — Gestapo Officer One
• Fall of Eagles: episode "Tell the King the Sky Is Falling" (1974) — General Alexeiev
• Quiller: 3 episodes (1976) — General Wavell
• Van der Valk: 11 episodes (1977) — Samson
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: episode "Return to the Circus" (1979) — Roddy Martindale
• Yes, Minister : 2 episodes^{show list} "A Question of Loyalty", "The Bed of Nails" (1981-82) — Sir Mark Spencer
• Doctor Who: "Time-Flight" (1982) — Professor Hayter
• Screen Two: episode "Blood Hunt" (1986) — The Rev. Davidson