Ros Drinkwater (born 14 February 1944) is a Scottish-born actress, best known for her portrayal of
Paul Temple
Paul Temple is a fictional character created by English writer Francis Durbridge. Temple is a professional author of crime fiction and an amateur private detective. With his wife Louise, affectionately known as 'Steve' in reference to her jo ...
's wife, Steve, in the
eponymous television series, based on the character created by
Francis Durbridge
Francis Henry Durbridge (; 25 November 1912 – 11 April 1998) was an English dramatist and author, best known for the creation of the character Paul Temple, the gentlemanly detective who appeared in 16 BBC multi-part radio serials from 1 ...
. She later moved into
photojournalism
Photojournalism is journalism that uses images to tell a news story. It usually only refers to still images, but can also refer to video used in broadcast journalism. Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of photography (such ...
.
Ros Drinkwater was born in
Glasgow
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,
Scotland
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on 14 February 1944. Her family was Anglo-Irish and her grandfather had been in the
Indian Army
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.
Drinkwater worked as a dancer in
Las Vegas
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before turning to acting.
[http://www.everymonday.ie/voices/90-the-beauty-spot--the-style-stakes.html ] In the late 1960s, she appeared in a number of episodes of British television series, including ''
Dr Finlay's Casebook
''Dr. Finlay's Casebook'' is a television drama series that was produced and broadcast by the BBC from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's 1935 novella ''Country Doctor'', the storylines centred on a general medical practice in the fictiona ...
'' ("A Matter of Confidence", 1966), ''
Champion House'' ("The Saddest Words", 1967), ''
The Saint
The Saint may refer to:
Fiction
* Simon Templar, also known as "The Saint", the protagonist of a book series by Leslie Charteris and subsequent adaptations:
** ''The Saint'' (film series) (1938–43), starring Louis Hayward, George Sanders an ...
'' ("Invitation to Danger", 1968) and ''
Special Branch
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'' ("The Kazmirov Affair", 1969). She also appeared briefly in the film ''
Song of Norway
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'' (1970) as one of
Franz Liszt
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's friends.
Drinkwater's best known role was as Steve Temple (''née'' Louise Harvey but in the earlier radio serials was a Fleet Street journalist using the name Steve Trent) the wife of writer/detective Paul Temple (
Francis Matthews), in ''
Paul Temple
Paul Temple is a fictional character created by English writer Francis Durbridge. Temple is a professional author of crime fiction and an amateur private detective. With his wife Louise, affectionately known as 'Steve' in reference to her jo ...
'' (1969–71). This was a co-production by the
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...
. According to Matthews, Drinkwater chose her own "very expensive"
clothes for the part.
''Paul Temple'' lasted for two years and was popular in West Germany. There appears to have been some disagreement between the BBC and Taurus over the casting of Steve Temple (who had been played in the radio series of ''Paul Temple'' from 1945-68 by
), the BBC wishing to drop Drinkwater, but Taurus favouring her retention.
Drinkwater subsequently became a photojournalist, based in
.
but the two are not related.