Undecided - Queenie Watts
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
- Queenie accompanied by Bert Eden (Thanks spiritofsylvox for the info.) on the piano and the rest of the band, recorded in 1964 at the Iron Bridge Tavern, 477 East India Dock Road, Poplar. Slim and Queenie Watts ran this pub in the 1960s and 70s.
Queenie Watts (21 July 1926, London, England, UK -- 25 January 1980 London, England, UK) was an English actress and singer of film and television.
She appeared in many British films, including the Joan Littlewood production Sparrers Can't Sing (1963) as herself in scenes set in the Iron Bridge Tavern, Millwall, which she ran in real life and in which she starred in the TV series Stars and Garters] (1963). She also appeared in the film version of Up the Junction (1968) and as a pub landlady in All Coppers Are.. (1972) and in television programmes through the 1960s and 1970s, including the successful, but critically panned, Romany Jones (1972--75) and its sequel Yus, My Dear (1976) in which Arthur Mullard featured as her husband. She appeared in three episodes of the Play for Today anthology series for the BBC, including Waterloo Sunset transmitted on 23 January 1979.
Watts appeared in Dad's Army in the role of Mrs Edna Peters, also in several episodes of Dixon of Dock Green in different roles, and in the comedy-drama Beryl's Lot (1973--75) and one episode of Steptoe and Son (1972).
Watts also appeared with Arthur Mullard, again as a married couple, and the On the Buses cast in the 1973 film Holiday on the Buses as well as the popular sitcom George and Mildred as the former neighbours of the characters played by Yootha Joyce and Brian Murphy.
She ran pubs (including the Iron Bridge Tavern, East India Dock Road, London and the Rose and Crown, Pennyfields, Poplar) with her husband, "Slim Watts", where she also sang and played piano with an eight-piece band to pull in more customers. She appeared in the 1966 film version of Alfie, singing "Goodbye, Dolly Gray" in a memorable, riotous bar-room brawl sequence.
Queenie Watts died from cancer in 1980.
Queenie Watts, a great actress, comedienne, singer etc.In those days you had to have talent to be called a star. And she was a star.
They were tremendous times to be in the pubs in the East End tremendous take me back
What a Talent I wish I was there xxx
My dad is playing the Double Bass when Queenie is singing in the pub...he was good friends with Queenie and her husband "Slim" Watts and remembers the the good times he had in the Iron Tavern.
Is slim still around
Wow what a crowd to hang about with - i bet he had a good few tales to tell - thanks for sharing that
Awesome:)
Fantastic!
Love Queenie watts funniest lovely voice talent Pretty lady auther mullard
Gotta love a bit of Queenie! ❤️
Wonderful wonderful Queenie ❤️
That’s my dad Jackie Free on trombone, still playing @ 86!!
Wow awsome
Awesome:)
You have one fantastic dad
Wow!! Bless your Dad.
Hope he's still blowing that thing at 91 !!! God Bless.....
Queenie Watts is awesome!!!
Queenie Watts is my child's great gran mother I am told you can see her in him such a shame as the Watts family have no idea!!!!!!
how? Queenie didn't have any kids
@@spudspuddy David Lesley Watts is my child’s father who is related to Queenie Watts if you look at the family tree you will see but you will not see my child’s name.
John rogers and his great book This Other London mentions Queenie and the Iron Bridge Tavern. Not Forgotten
What a great clip of a great Singer in action! Thanks for posting this.
Actually that is Bert Eden playing the piano in this clip. Bert was a good friend of mine and an incredible self taught pianist. I have videos on UA-cam of Bert playing in blues and rock and roll jams (he could play anything by ear off the cuff) that I put together with friends at clubs in the U.S. in the late 1990s during the periods when I would come back home from London for a month or two and bring Bert and his wife Meg with me. I met Bert when I was living in East London in the mid 1990s and played with him in many Eastend pub singalongs back then. Bert passed in 2003.
description now editied.
Thanks spiritofsylvox
When I was 50 in 2013 someone gave me two lists. One famous people born in 1963 and the other famous people born on my birthday 21st July which included Queenie. I remember her as a child and was shocked that she was only early 50s when she died. She always seemed to be on telly in 60s and 70s.Waterloo sunset was her best work in my view and if she had lived I feel she would have got great roles as Dame Thora Hird did.
yes i remember that .had her own series with arthur mullard as well.she was brilliant singing in the fight sequence in the pub in alfie also memorable for a magnificent background gay drama featuring cardew robinson.
Yes and she would have blew the roof of Eastenders - i would imagine she rubbed shoulders with Barbara Windsor and her lot back then
The last remaining wall of the Iron Bridge Tavern has just recently been demolished, as of the 10/5/2013, the site of the pub is soon to be replaced by yet another block of flats.
Shame ...
AutOfive: There was also another with Don Harvey playing on stars and garters, but it had no sound in the rising sun, same setting as this, I cant find that one here now. wonder if was you who put it up before?
LadyWriter 1968 Not sure if I still have it.
I check my old harddrives and if I find it I will add it to my youtube page.
Aut0five ok thanks as I know Don Harvey, be great if you do and can upload though.
Does any one know who the two blond girls were who entered and walked up to the bar?
...how is she singing and sat at the bar at the same time?
Beautiful clip. What is it from?
its from a 25 minute documentary, I have other clips too, see my other videos
Was that her with Arthur Mullard
yes Phil
That is a shame. History destroyed.
0:36 How can Queenie Watts be in two places at once? lol
when editing was not so rigorous
yes I thought that ................ and if looks could kill. LOL
I have to say: far better singer than Amy Winehouse.........