Richard Davies
Acting • Born 1926-01-25 – Died 2015-10-08
Biography
Dennis Wilfred Davies, known professionally as Richard Davies (25 January 1926 – 8 October 2015), was a Welsh actor.He was probably best known for his performance as the exasperated schoolmaster Mr. Price in the popular LWT situation comedy Please Sir! 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 Davies was born in Dowlais, near Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, the son of a railway guard. 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. 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. In 1970, he appeared in an episode of Two in Clover as Victor Spinetti's character's brother when Spinetti was unavailable. His other main role was in the comedy series Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt where he played Clive. 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. 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. 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. He had appeared in films such as Zulu (1964), the film adaptation of Please Sir! (1971), and Under Milk Wood (1972). In 1988, he played the schoolteacher in Queen Sacrifice. 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 after a battle against Alzheimer's disease.
Filmography
74 credits
The Long Arm
Movie • 1956
Detective (uncredited)
A Fever in the Blood
Movie • 1961
Bates
The Lavender Hill Mob
Movie • 1951
Police Driver
The Night My Number Came Up
Movie • 1955
Wireless Operator
Sky West and Crooked
Movie • 1966
Rick
Steptoe & Son Ride Again
Movie • 1973
Butcher
Twisted Nerve
Movie • 1968
'Taffy' Evans
Queen Sacrifice
Movie • 1988
Wil Bevan
Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet
Movie • 1978
Young Thomas
A Run for Your Money
Movie • 1949
Rugby Fan (uncredited)
The Fiction Makers
Movie • 1968
Reporter
Blue Blood
Movie • 1974
Jones
Where the Buffalo Roam
Movie • 1966
Some People
Movie • 1962
Harper
The Midas Plague
Movie • 1965
First Rebel
Oh! What a Lovely War
Movie • 1969
Sergeant in Burial Party (uncredited)
Zulu
Movie • 1964
Private 593 Jones
"If Only..."
Movie • 1980
Brian's Father
Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen
Movie • 1987
Burton
Under Milk Wood
Movie • 1972
Mr Pritchard
The Mutations
Movie • 1974
Doctor
Please Sir!
Movie • 1971
Mr. Price
Rebecca's Daughters
Movie • 1992
Lewis
City of Fear!
Movie • 1976
Dennis
The Sweeney
TV • 1975
Doctor
Wyatt's Watchdogs
TV • 1988
Irate Car Owner
Softly, Softly
TV • 1966
The Bill
TV • 1984
Doctor Who
TV • 1963
Burton
Z-Cars
TV • 1962
Gideon's Way
TV • 1965
The Postman
Fawlty Towers
TV • 1975
Mr. White
One Foot in the Grave
TV • 1990
Billy
Yes Minister
TV • 1980
Dixon of Dock Green
TV • 1955
Haines
The First Lady
TV • 1968
Please Sir!
TV • 1968
Mr. Price
The Wednesday Play
TV • 1964
Van der Valk
TV • 1972
Lloyd
Angels
TV • 1975
No Hiding Place
TV • 1959
The Citadel
TV • 1983
Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt!
TV • 1974
Clive
Oliver's Travels
TV • 1995
Signwriter
Roberts Robots
TV • 1973
The Boot Street Band
TV • 1993
Behind Closed Doors
TV • 1958
Werner
Offspring
TV • 2010
Jimmy Proudman
Dixon of Dock Green
TV • 1955
Milkman
Dixon of Dock Green
TV • 1955
Det. Chief Insp. Pearce
2Point4 Children
TV • 1991
Gareth
2Point4 Children
TV • 1991
Jack
Frank Stubbs Promotes
TV • 1993
Huw
Gideon's Way
TV • 1965
Forensics Man
Gideon's Way
TV • 1965
The Taxi Driver
The Saint
TV • 1962
Reporter
Big Deal
TV • 1984
Dai Phillips
Dad
TV • 1997
In Loving Memory
TV • 1969
Ivor Davies
The Wednesday Play
TV • 1964
Mr. Black
The Wednesday Play
TV • 1964
Harry Jenkins
The Wednesday Play
TV • 1964
Registrar
Coronation Street
TV • 1960
Idris Hopkins
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Second sentry
Moonstrike
TV • 1963
Raymonde
The Man in the Iron Mask
TV • 1968
Landlord
Crane
TV • 1963
Willie Jones
Festival
TV • 1963
Lord Cut-Glass - Mog Edwards
The Government Inspector
TV • 1976
Owen Owen
Whoops Apocalypse
TV • 1982
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Bottle Boys
TV • 1984
Stan Evans
The Informer
TV • 1966
'Greasy' Jenkins
Armchair Theatre
TV • 1956
Freddie
Centre Play
TV • 1973
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