Dilys Rhys Watling (née Jones, 5 May 1942 – 10 August 2021) was an English actress, best known for appearing on British television (Coronation Street, The Benny Hill Show and The Two Ronnies).
Ion Rhys Jones was killed in action in World War II, and her mother later married actor Jack Watling.
Watling was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical for her Broadway debut in the short-lived Georgy in 1970.
Other stage credits include the musical Pickwick (1964), an adaptation of Dickens's The Pickwick Papers; the role of the Beggar Woman in the 1980 London cast of Sweeney Todd in the West End; and the West End multi-media Dave Clark rock musical Time (1986).
Watling was married twice: her first marriage was to Australian Bruce Anderson in 1966; they later divorced.