Rupert Davies
Known for Acting · 70 credits
- Born
- 1916-05-22
- Died
- 1976-11-22
- Place of birth
- Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK
- Also known as
- Rupert Lisburn Gwynne Davies
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rupert Davies (22 May 1916 – 22 November 1976) was a British actor. He remains best known for playing the title role in the BBC's 1960s television adaptation of Maigret, based on the Maigret novels written by Georges Simenon.
Davies was born in Liverpool. After a service in the British Merchant Navy, during the Second World War he was a Sub-Lieutenant Observer with the Fleet Air Arm. In 1940 the Swordfish aircraft in which he was flying ditched in the sea off the Dutch Coast. Davies was captured and interned in the famous Stalag Luft III POW camp. He made three attempts to escape. All failed. It was during his captivity that he began to take part in theatre performances, entertaining his fellow prisoners.
On his release, Davies resumed his career in acting almost immediately, starring in an ex Prisoner Of War show, 'Back Home', which was hosted at the Stoll Theatre, London.
After the war Davies became a staple of British television appearing in numerous plays and series, including Quatermass II, Ivanhoe, Emergency - Ward 10, Danger Man, The Champions, Doctor at Large (1971), Arthur of the Britons and War and Peace (1972). He also provided the voice of "Professor Ian McClaine" in the Gerry Anderson series Joe 90.
Known For
TV Shows (30)
Play for Today
1970
as Bartley Humbolt
The Wednesday Play
1964
as Councillor Wally Cross
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Commissaire Maigret
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
as Lomov
Sunday-Night Play
1960
as Capt. Victor Mishlayevsky
The Adventures of Robin Hood
1955
as Simon Dexter
Maigret
1960
as Chief Inspector Maigret
Sunday Night Theatre
1950
as Day-watchman / Mr. Page / Thompson / Wing Commander / Alec Roper / Oderbruch / Thomas Cromwell / Maurice Szeps / Frontier guard / Walters / Gabriel Mirabeau
The Champions
1968
as Voss
Danger Man
1960
as Colonel Graves
The Third Man
1959
as Arthur Shillings / Insp. Arthur Shillings
Ready Steady Go!
1963
as Self
Interpol Calling
1959
as Coetzee
Festival
1963
as Chief of Police
Man in a Suitcase
1967
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973
as Lemerie
Sailor of Fortune
1957
as Alphonso - Italian Ship's Engineer
Father Brown
1974
as Colonel Arthur Druce
Detective
1964
as Chief Inspector Jules Maigret / Chief Inspector Jules Maigret - Introduction / Chief Inspector Jules Maigret - Introduction (uncredited)
The Invisible Man
1958
as Dushkin
Lilli Palmer Theatre
1955
Ivanhoe
1958
as Brother Gareth
Arthur of the Britons
1972
as Cerdig
Folio
1955
as Canoris
Joe 90
1968
as Professor Ian "Mac" McClaine (voice)
War & Peace
1972
as Ilya Rostov
Armchair Theatre
1956
as Inspector Shawcross / Banham / Det. Insp. / Geoffrey Hansbury / Ramon Cintos / Miffin
The Man Outside
1972
as Baker
Quatermass II
1955
as Vincent Broadhead
Biography
1970
as Sir Almroth Wright
Movies (40)
Sapphire
1959
as Ferris
Waterloo
1970
as Gordon
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1965
as George Smiley
Witchfinder General
1968
as John Lowes
John Paul Jones
1959
as British Captain
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
1968
as Monsignor Ernst Mueller
Five Golden Dragons
1967
as Comm. Sanders
Curse of the Crimson Altar
1968
as The Vicar (uncredited)
The Night Visitor
1971
as Mr. Clemens
Breakout
1959
as Morgan
The Oblong Box
1969
as Joshua Kemp
The Key
1958
as Baker
The Brides of Fu Manchu
1966
as Jules Merlin
The Dark Avenger
1955
as Sir John
Zeppelin
1971
as Captain Whitney
The Criminal
1960
as Edwards
Maigret at Bay
1969
as Commissaire Jules Maigret
Bobbikins
1959
Devil's Bait
1959
as Landlord
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982
as Self (archive footage)
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991
as Monsignor (archive footage)
Target for Killing
1966
as Kommissar Saadi
The Many Faces of Dracula
2000
as Monsignor (archive footage)
Frightmare
1974
as Edmund Yates
Maigret Plays Dirty
1966
as Maigret
Submarine X-1
1968
as Vice Admiral Redmayne (uncredited)
The Firechasers
1971
as Prentice
The Traitor
1957
as Clinton
The Angel with the Trumpet
1950
as Policeman
Sea Fury
1958
as Bosun
The Amazing Adventures Of Joe 90
1981
as Professor Ian 'Mac' McClaine (voice)
Life In Emergency Ward 10
1959
as R.S.O. Hunter
The Uncle
1964
as David Morton
The After Dinner Game
1975
as Bartley Humbolt
Danger Tomorrow
1960
as Dr. Campbell
The Thought of Tomorrow
1959
as Geoffrey Hansbury
King Arthur, the Young Warlord
1975
as Cerdig, Chief of the Saxons
The Big Breaker
1964
as Councillor Wally Cross
Health in Our Time
1948
Violent Moment
1959
as Bert Glennon
About Rupert Davies
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rupert Davies (22 May 1916 – 22 November 1976) was a British actor. He remains best known for playing the title role in the BBC's 1960s television adaptation of Maigret, based on the Maigret novels written by Georges Simenon. Davies was born in Liverpool. After a service in the British Merchant Navy, during the Second World War he was a Sub-Lieutenant Observer with the Fleet Air Arm. In 1940 the Swordfish aircraft in which he was flying ditched in the sea off the Dutch Coast. Davies was captured and intern… With 70 credits spanning from 1948 to 2000, Rupert Davies has appeared in 40 films and 30 TV shows.
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- Sapphire (1959) — as Ferris
- Waterloo (1970) — as Gordon
- The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965) — as George Smiley
- Witchfinder General (1968) — as John Lowes
- John Paul Jones (1959) — as British Captain
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