| Douglas Watkinson
was born into an army family and when he was
eighteen months old his father was killed by
the infamous Stern Gang on active service in
Palestine. Douglas and his mother went to live
with her parents in Totteridge, North London,
from where at the age of eight he won a Royal
Artillery scholarship to Haberdashers Aske’s.
“I was bitten by the acting bug quite
early on,” says Douglas. “We put
on some fabulous productions at school, we even
took King Lear on a tour of Germany, can you
believe!” |
Inevitably, on leaving Haberdashers
Douglas applied to drama school and went to
the new and vibrant East 15 Acting School which
had grown out of Joan Littlewood’s Theatre
Royal at Stratford East. It was here that Douglas
began writing seriously and had his first plays
produced while still a student.
“I supported myself through Drama School
by working for the police! I answered the phone
at Barnet Police Station, Saturdays and Sundays,
for three years.
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