Derek Waring - Early Life

Early Life

Derek Barton-Chapple was born in Mill Hill, London in 1927 and his father was the TV pioneer Wing Commander H.J. Barton-Chapple, who had worked with John Logie Baird. Waring's brother Richard was a TV scriptwriter. After attending Dulwich College, Waring served with the Army in Berlin. Waring later turned down the offer of a place at St Edmund Hall, Oxford to take up a scholarship with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and then went into rep theatre. Waring's first television role was in a 1956 episode of The Jack Benny Program. After that he appeared in many television programmes in small roles, including The Adventures of Sir Lancelot, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Ivanhoe, Dixon of Dock Green, Ghost Squad and Callan. In 1964, Waring married Dorothy Tutin, and they had two children, Amanda and Nick, both of whom later became actors.

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