Rupert Davies
Acting • Born 1916-05-22 – Died 1976-11-22
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.
Filmography
86 credits
The Brides of Fu Manchu
Movie • 1966
Jules Merlin
The Criminal
Movie • 1960
Edwards
Witchfinder General
Movie • 1968
John Lowes
Curse of the Crimson Altar
Movie • 1968
The Vicar (uncredited)
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Movie • 1965
George Smiley
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
Movie • 1968
Monsignor Ernst Mueller
Frightmare
Movie • 1974
Edmund Yates
The Big Breaker
Movie • 1964
Councillor Wally Cross
The Oblong Box
Movie • 1969
Joshua Kemp
Five Golden Dragons
Movie • 1967
Comm. Sanders
The Angel with the Trumpet
Movie • 1950
Policeman
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Movie • 1991
Monsignor (archive footage)
The Many Faces of Dracula
Movie • 2000
Monsignor (archive footage)
The Dark Avenger
Movie • 1955
Sir John
Target for Killing
Movie • 1966
Kommissar Saadi
Waterloo
Movie • 1970
Gordon
Devil's Bait
Movie • 1959
Landlord
Violent Moment
Movie • 1959
Bert Glennon
Health in Our Time
Movie • 1948
Breakout
Movie • 1959
Morgan
Maigret Plays Dirty
Movie • 1966
Maigret
The Thought of Tomorrow
Movie • 1959
Geoffrey Hansbury
Zeppelin
Movie • 1971
Captain Whitney
The Uncle
Movie • 1964
David Morton
Life In Emergency Ward 10
Movie • 1959
R.S.O. Hunter
Bobbikins
Movie • 1959
Danger Tomorrow
Movie • 1960
Dr. Campbell
The Night Visitor
Movie • 1971
Mr. Clemens
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Movie • 1982
Self (archive footage)
Submarine X-1
Movie • 1968
Vice Admiral Redmayne (uncredited)
The Key
Movie • 1958
Baker
The Firechasers
Movie • 1971
Prentice
Sapphire
Movie • 1959
Ferris
Sea Fury
Movie • 1958
Bosun
John Paul Jones
Movie • 1959
British Captain
King Arthur, the Young Warlord
Movie • 1975
Cerdig, Chief of the Saxons
The After Dinner Game
Movie • 1975
Bartley Humbolt
The Traitor
Movie • 1957
Clinton
The Amazing Adventures Of Joe 90
Movie • 1981
Professor Ian 'Mac' McClaine (voice)
Maigret at Bay
Movie • 1969
Commissaire Jules Maigret
Joe 90
TV • 1968
Professor Ian "Mac" McClaine (voice)
Ready Steady Go!
TV • 1963
Self
The Champions
TV • 1968
Voss
Ivanhoe
TV • 1958
Brother Gareth
Interpol Calling
TV • 1959
Coetzee
Man in a Suitcase
TV • 1967
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
TV • 1973
Lemerie
The Man Outside
TV • 1972
Maigret
TV • 1960
Chief Inspector Maigret
Father Brown
TV • 1974
Colonel Arthur Druce
Armchair Theatre
TV • 1956
Inspector Shawcross
The Invisible Man
TV • 1958
Dushkin
Arthur of the Britons
TV • 1972
Cerdig
Play for Today
TV • 1970
Bartley Humbolt
Thirty-Minute Theatre
TV • 1965
Lomov
The Wednesday Play
TV • 1964
Councillor Wally Cross
Detective
TV • 1964
Chief Inspector Jules Maigret
Danger Man
TV • 1960
Colonel Graves
The Third Man
TV • 1959
Arthur Shillings
The Third Man
TV • 1959
Insp. Arthur Shillings
Armchair Theatre
TV • 1956
Banham
Armchair Theatre
TV • 1956
Armchair Theatre
TV • 1956
Det. Insp.
Armchair Theatre
TV • 1956
Geoffrey Hansbury
Armchair Theatre
TV • 1956
Ramon Cintos
Armchair Theatre
TV • 1956
Miffin
Folio
TV • 1955
Canoris
Lilli Palmer Theatre
TV • 1955
The Adventures of Robin Hood
TV • 1955
Simon Dexter
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Day-watchman
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Mr. Page
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Thompson
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Wing Commander
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Alec Roper
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Oderbruch
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Thomas Cromwell
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Maurice Szeps
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Frontier guard
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Walters
Sunday Night Theatre
TV • 1950
Gabriel Mirabeau
Sailor of Fortune
TV • 1957
Alphonso - Italian Ship's Engineer
Detective
TV • 1964
Chief Inspector Jules Maigret - Introduction
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Commissaire Maigret
Festival
TV • 1963
Chief of Police
Quatermass II
TV • 1955
Vincent Broadhead
War & Peace
TV • 1972
Ilya Rostov