Russell Waters began his acting career in the 1930s and soon found
himself cast in various film roles at the start of what promised to be
a bright future as an actor. Unfortunately, WWII radically changed his
prospects; conscripted into the army for the duration and wounded at
some point around mid to late 1944 which saw him invalided back to
England.
Shortly after his return home he met a young war widow Barbara; they
married and produced four children:
John Waters, Angela, Stephen,
and Fiona
Fizz Waters. The Waters family
lived in a rented top floor 2 bedroom flat in Anlaby Road, Teddington,
Middlesex close to the Thames TV studios. Russell's career was
capricious to say the least, an obviously talented actor, underrated
and often overlooked probably due to the vagaries of time and
circumstance brought about by the events of WWII.