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Acting
Birthday
May 22, 1916
Died
November 22, 1976
Place of Birth
Liverpool, England, UK
Rupert Davies
0.6 Popularity
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
3.5
Monsignor (archive footage)
The Many Faces of Dracula
2000
10.0
Monsignor (archive footage)
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991
8.0
Self (archive footage)
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982
0.0
Professor Ian 'Mac' McClaine (voice)
The Amazing Adventures Of Joe 90
1981
6.0
Bartley Humbolt
The After Dinner Game
1975
7.0
Cerdig, Chief of the Saxons
King Arthur, the Young Warlord
1975
6.4
Edmund Yates
Frightmare
1974
6.6
Colonel Arthur Druce
Father Brown
1974
6.7
Lemerie
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973
7.3
Cerdig
Arthur of the Britons
1972
Credits
The Many Faces of Dracula
as Monsignor (archive footage)
2000
3.5
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
as Monsignor (archive footage)
1991
10.0
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
as Self (archive footage)
1982
8.0
The Amazing Adventures Of Joe 90
as Professor Ian 'Mac' McClaine (voice)
1981
0.0
The After Dinner Game
as Bartley Humbolt
1975
6.0
King Arthur, the Young Warlord
as Cerdig, Chief of the Saxons
1975
7.0
Frightmare
as Edmund Yates
1974
6.4
Father Brown
as Colonel Arthur Druce
1974
6.6
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
as Lemerie
1973
6.7
Arthur of the Britons
as Cerdig
1972
7.3
War & Peace
as Ilya Rostov
1972
7.1
🎬
The Man Outside
1972
4.7
Zeppelin
as Captain Whitney
1971
6.0
The Night Visitor
as Mr. Clemens
1971
6.3
The Firechasers
as Prentice
1971
7.2
Waterloo
as Gordon
1970
7.1
Play for Today
as Bartley Humbolt
1970
6.3
The Oblong Box
as Joshua Kemp
1969
5.7
🎬
Maigret at Bay
as Commissaire Jules Maigret
1969
0.0
Curse of the Crimson Altar
as The Vicar (uncredited)
1968
5.2
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
as Monsignor Ernst Mueller
1968
6.7
Joe 90
as Professor Ian "Mac" McClaine (voice)
1968
7.1
The Champions
as Voss
1968
6.2
Witchfinder General
as John Lowes
1968
6.5
Submarine X-1
as Vice Admiral Redmayne (uncredited)
1968
6.0
Man in a Suitcase
1967
7.0
Five Golden Dragons
as Comm. Sanders
1967
5.1
The Brides of Fu Manchu
as Jules Merlin
1966
5.7
Target for Killing
as Kommissar Saadi
1966
6.1
🎬
Maigret Plays Dirty
as Maigret
1966
0.0
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
as George Smiley
1965
7.1
BBC Play of the Month
as Commissaire Maigret
1965
5.0
Thirty-Minute Theatre
as Lomov
1965
3.4
The Uncle
as David Morton
1964
6.8
The Big Breaker
as Councillor Wally Cross
1964
0.0
The Wednesday Play
as Councillor Wally Cross
1964
4.5
Detective
as Chief Inspector Jules Maigret
1964
0.0
Detective
as Chief Inspector Jules Maigret - Introduction
1964
0.0
🎬
Festival
as Chief of Police
1963
8.0
Ready Steady Go!
as Self
1963
7.0
Maigret
as Chief Inspector Maigret
1960
7.2
The Criminal
as Edwards
1960
6.3
Danger Man
as Colonel Graves
1960
7.3
Danger Tomorrow
as Dr. Campbell
1960
5.5
Devil's Bait
as Landlord
1959
6.5
Sapphire
as Ferris
1959
7.0
🎬
The Thought of Tomorrow
as Geoffrey Hansbury
1959
0.0
The Third Man
as Arthur Shillings
1959
7.1
The Third Man
as Insp. Arthur Shillings
1959
7.1
Interpol Calling
as Coetzee
1959
6.7
Bobbikins
1959
4.0
John Paul Jones
as British Captain
1959
5.9
Life In Emergency Ward 10
as R.S.O. Hunter
1959
7.0
🎬
Violent Moment
as Bert Glennon
1959
6.0
Breakout
as Morgan
1959
6.8
The Invisible Man
as Dushkin
1958
7.1
Sea Fury
as Bosun
1958
6.0
The Key
as Baker
1958
6.0
Ivanhoe
as Brother Gareth
1958
6.3
Sailor of Fortune
as Alphonso - Italian Ship's Engineer
1957
0.0
The Traitor
as Clinton
1957
7.0
Armchair Theatre
as Inspector Shawcross
1956
5.8
Armchair Theatre
as Banham
1956
5.8
Armchair Theatre
1956
5.8
Armchair Theatre
as Det. Insp.
1956
5.8
Armchair Theatre
as Geoffrey Hansbury
1956
5.8
Armchair Theatre
as Ramon Cintos
1956
5.8
Armchair Theatre
as Miffin
1956
5.8
Quatermass II
as Vincent Broadhead
1955
6.2
The Adventures of Robin Hood
as Simon Dexter
1955
6.3
Folio
as Canoris
1955
0.0
Lilli Palmer Theatre
1955
0.0
The Dark Avenger
as Sir John
1955
6.0
The Angel with the Trumpet
as Policeman
1950
6.3
Sunday Night Theatre
as Day-watchman
1950
3.5
Sunday Night Theatre
as Mr. Page
1950
3.5
Sunday Night Theatre
as Thompson
1950
3.5
Sunday Night Theatre
as Wing Commander
1950
3.5
Sunday Night Theatre
as Alec Roper
1950
3.5
Sunday Night Theatre
as Oderbruch
1950
3.5
Sunday Night Theatre
as Thomas Cromwell
1950
3.5
Sunday Night Theatre
as Maurice Szeps
1950
3.5
Sunday Night Theatre
as Frontier guard
1950
3.5
Sunday Night Theatre
as Walters
1950
3.5
Sunday Night Theatre
as Gabriel Mirabeau
1950
3.5
🎬
Health in Our Time
1948
0.0