In 1995, Watkin appeared in Shortland Street as Ted Coombes, a truckie who drunkenly drives his rig into the clinic in that year's Christmas episode. In 2002 he was listed as having a small role in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones which was filmed there. As well as appearing in Roger Donaldson's Sleeping Dogs in 1977, Watkin played lawyer Kevin Ryan in the 1981 dramatisation of the Arthur Allan Thomas case, Beyond Reasonable Doubt. Watkin appeared as Jim in the television movie of Roger Hall's play Glide Time before it was adapted as the early 80s sitcom Gliding On, in which Watkin didn't appear. Watkin's rotund features and booming voice popped up in many Kiwi films throughout the 70s, 80s and 90s.

Source: New Zealand Herald May 18, 2016 15:54 UTC