Derek Waring

Derek Waring was an English actor who is best remembered for playing Detective Inspector Goss in ZCars from 1969 to 1973. He was married to the actress Dame Dorothy Tutin.

Derek BartonChapple was born in Mill Hill, London in 1927 and his father was the TV pioneer Wing Commander H.J. BartonChapple, who had worked with John Logie Baird. Warings 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. Warings first television role was in a 1956 episode of The Jack Benny Programme. 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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