Richard Davies | |
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Born | Dennis Wilfred Davies 25 January 1926 |
Died | 8 October 2015 | (aged 89)
Occupation | Actor |
Spouses | Beryl Armstrong
(
m. 1944, divorced)Jill Britton (
m. 1955) |
Children | 3 |
Dennis Wilfred Davies, known professionally as Richard Davies (25 January 1926 – 8 October 2015), was a Welsh actor. [1] He was probably best known for his performance as the exasperated schoolmaster Mr. Price in the popular LWT situation comedy Please Sir!. [2] He used a broad Welsh accent for much of his work, but had used other accents to play a wide range of characters, in addition to several Welsh stereotypes. [3]
Davies was born in Dowlais, near Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, the son of a railway guard. [2] He played Idris Hopkins in Coronation Street between 1974 and 1975, and appeared in several science-fiction series, among them Robert's Robots, Out of the Unknown, and a well-received performance as Burton in the 1987 Doctor Who story Delta and the Bannermen. [2] [4] [5] [6] He played Mr. White in the Fawlty Towers episode " The Kipper and the Corpse" and also appeared in Yes Minister, Wyatt's Watchdogs, May to December, Whoops Apocalypse, 2point4 Children and One Foot in the Grave. [7] In 1970, he appeared in an episode of Two in Clover as Victor Spinetti's character's brother when Spinetti was unavailable. [8] His other main role was in the comedy series Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt where he played Clive. [2]
Davies had a recurring role as Jim Sloan in Z-Cars between 1962 and 1965, returning to the series playing different characters in 1968 and in its spin-off Softly, Softly. [1] He also appeared in Dixon of Dock Green, The Sweeney and Van der Valk. He impersonated Clive Jenkins in a spoof edition of Question Time in a sketch on Not the Nine O'Clock News. [9] He appeared in the Please Sir! spin-off series The Fenn Street Gang. In 1951, he made an uncredited appearance in the Ealing Studios comedy The Lavender Hill Mob. [2] He had appeared in films such as Zulu (1964), the film adaptation of Please Sir! (1971), and Under Milk Wood (1972). [10] In 1988, he played the schoolteacher in Queen Sacrifice. [11] He died on 8 October 2015 at the age of 89, survived by his wife and two children, and a son from his first marriage [3] after a battle against Alzheimer's disease. [12]
Year | Title | Roles | Notes |
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1949 | A Run for Your Money | Rugby Fan | Uncredited |
1951 | The Lavender Hill Mob | Police Driver | Uncredited |
1955 | The Night My Number Came Up | Wireless Operator | |
1956 | The Long Arm | Detective | Uncredited |
1961 | A Fever in the Blood | Bates | Uncredited |
1962 | Some People | Harper | |
1963 | Critic's Choice | Spectator | Uncredited |
1964 | Zulu | Private 593 Jones | |
1966 | Sky West and Crooked | Rick | |
1968 | Twisted Nerve | 'Taffy' Evans | |
1968 | The Fiction Makers | Reporter | |
1969 | Oh! What a Lovely War | Sergeant in Burial Party | Uncredited |
1971 | Please Sir! | Mr. Price | |
1972 | Under Milk Wood | Mr. Pritchard | |
1973 | Steptoe and Son Ride Again | Butcher | |
1974 | The Mutations | Doctor | |
1974 | Blue Blood | Jones | |
1988 | Queen Sacrifice | Wil Bevan | Short |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
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1960 | The Secret Kingdom | Rigby | ||
1962–1965 | Z-Cars | Jim Sloan | ||
1968 | Softly, Softly | |||
1962 | Z-Cars | |||
1968–1972 | Please Sir! | Mr. Price | ||
1970 | Two in Clover | David Evans | ||
1974–1975 | Coronation Street | Idris Hopkins | ||
1974–1977 | Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt | Clive Meredith | 21 episodes | |
1977 | Van der Valk | Sgt Lloyd | S3E8 Dead on Arrival | |
1979 | Fawlty Towers | Mr. White | ||
1980 | Yes Minister | Joe Morgan | ||
1982 | Whoops Apocalypse | Chancellor of the Exchequer | ||
1983 | Give Us a Break | Taffy | ||
1984 | Bottle Boys | Stan Evans | ||
1985 | Big Deal | Dai Phillips | ||
1986 | That Uncertain Feeling | Mr. Davis | ||
1987 | Doctor Who | Burton | ||
1988 | Wyatt's Watchdogs | |||
1989 | EastEnders | Ted | ||
1992 | One Foot in the Grave | Billy Whitney | ||
1992-1993 | 2point4 Children | Gareth | ||
1993 | The Bill | Caretaker | ||
1996 | And the Beat Goes On | Father Hopkins | ||
1998 | 2point4 Children | Jack |