Known For
Acting
Born
May 22, 1916
Died
Nov 22, 1976
Place of Birth
Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK
Credits
70 titles
Rupert 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. In 1964 he became the first person to be awarded Pipe Smoker of the Year. Davies also played supporting roles in many films, appearing briefly as George Smiley in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965). He also appeared in several horror films in the late 1960s, including Witchfinder General (1968) and Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968), as well as such international blockbusters as Waterloo (1970) and Zeppelin (1971). He died of cancer in London in 1976, leaving a wife, Jessica, and two sons, Timothy and Hogan, and is buried at Pistyll Cemetery, near Nefyn in North Wales. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rupert Davies, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
The Many Faces of Dracula
Monsignor (archive footage)
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Monsignor (archive footage)
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Self (archive footage)
The Amazing Adventures Of Joe 90
Professor Ian 'Mac' McClaine (voice)
The After Dinner Game
Bartley Humbolt
King Arthur, the Young Warlord
Cerdig, Chief of the Saxons
Frightmare
Edmund Yates
Father Brown
Colonel Arthur Druce
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
Lemerie
Arthur of the Britons
Cerdig
War & Peace
Ilya Rostov
The Man Outside
Baker
Zeppelin
Captain Whitney
The Night Visitor
Mr. Clemens
The Firechasers
Prentice
Waterloo
Gordon
Biography
Sir Almroth Wright
Play for Today
Bartley Humbolt
The Oblong Box
Joshua Kemp
Maigret at Bay
Commissaire Jules Maigret
Curse of the Crimson Altar
The Vicar (uncredited)
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
Monsignor Ernst Mueller
Joe 90
Professor Ian "Mac" McClaine (voice)
The Champions
Voss
Witchfinder General
John Lowes
Submarine X-1
Vice Admiral Redmayne (uncredited)
Man in a Suitcase
Five Golden Dragons
Comm. Sanders
The Brides of Fu Manchu
Jules Merlin
Target for Killing
Kommissar Saadi
Maigret Plays Dirty
Maigret
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
George Smiley
BBC Play of the Month
Commissaire Maigret
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Lomov
The Uncle
David Morton
The Big Breaker
Councillor Wally Cross
The Wednesday Play
Councillor Wally Cross
Detective
Chief Inspector Jules Maigret
Festival
Chief of Police
Ready Steady Go!
Self
Maigret
Chief Inspector Maigret
Sunday-Night Play
Capt. Victor Mishlayevsky
The Criminal
Edwards
Danger Man
Colonel Graves
Danger Tomorrow
Dr. Campbell
Devil's Bait
Landlord
Sapphire
Ferris
The Thought of Tomorrow
Geoffrey Hansbury
The Third Man
Arthur Shillings
Interpol Calling
Coetzee