of the tolerant, amused secretary to Sinden's ageing matinée idol won her a Society of West End Theatre Award in 1981. In Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well for the Royal Shakespeare Company her Countess of Roussillon – "gentle but dignified" – attracted comparisons with celebrated earlier interpretations by Edith Evans and Peggy Ashcroft. She was last seen in the West End as Alice More opposite Charlton Heston in A Man for All Seasons, in a production transferred from the Chichester Festival; the Evening Standard found her performance so touching that it "would make a stone weep". Offstage, she was vice-chairman of the Combined Theatrical Charities and was one of the four trustees of Equity. The Times, describing Watford's last television work as among her best, instanced Grace Winslow in The Winslow Boy with Ian Richardson and Emma Thompson (whose role as the sister Watford had played in the 1958 BBC TV production), Dolly Bantry in two Miss Marple stories with Joan Hickson, and Sheila in Alan Ayckbourn's Relatively Speaking with Nigel Hawthorne. She was in several series, including Crown Court for ITV and Behaving Badly for Channel 4. The West End Present Laughter was filmed by the BBC, broadcast in 1981 and issued on DVD in 2007. Watford's later career was curtailed by illness, but the year before her death she toured in Alan Bennett's Talking Heads. She died, aged 66, on 6 February 1994. A memorial service was held at the actors' church, St Paul's, Covent Garden, on 22 March 1994; Sinden read the lesson and there were readings by Gielgud, Judi Dench and other friends and colleagues. TV and filmography (incomplete) The Fall of the House of Usher (1950) .... Lady Usher David Copperfield (1956) .... Rose Dartle The Winslow Boy (1958) (TV) .... Katherine Winslow Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960) .... Sally Carter The Grass Is Greener (1960) .... Hairdresser's receptionist (uncredited) The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1961) (TV) .... Elizabeth Barrett The Very Edge (1963) .... Sister Holden Cleopatra (1963) .... Calpurnia Do You Know This Voice? (1964) .... Jackie Hopta Valley of the Kings (1964) .... Mrs. Marsh The Rise and Rise of Cesar Birotteau (1965) (TV) .... Constance Birotteau Broome Stages (1966) (TV) .... Lettice Broome Taste the Blood of Dracula (1969) .... Martha Hargood Shadows of Fear (1970) .... Moira Astle (episode Did You Lock Up?) A Face of Your