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DEREK WARING, the actor who died on February 19 aged 79, was a familiar face in a wide range of television series from the mid- 1950s; he was also the husband of the late actress Dame Dorothy Tutin.
Perhaps Waring's most memorable role was as Inspector Goss in Z Cars, the BBC's drama series of the 1960s and 1970s which portrayed day-to-day policing in Newtown, a fictitious town to the north of Liverpool. The aim was present a more realistic picture of the police than was usual in the television programmes of the time. Waring appeared as Goss for three years from 1969.
In 1974 Waring starred in the Thames sitcom Moody and Pegg. He took the role of Roland Moody, a newly-divorced 42-year-old antiques dealer who finds himself forced to share a property with a civil servant, Daphne Pegg,...