Name
Rupert Davies
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1916-05-22
Deathday
1976-11-22 (60 years old)
Place of Birth
Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK
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.
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- 1966 The Brides of Fu Manchu as Jules Merlin
- 1960 The Criminal as Edwards
- 1968 Witchfinder General as John Lowes
- 1968 Curse of the Crimson Altar as The Vicar (uncredited)
- 1965 The Spy Who Came In from the Cold as George Smiley
- 1968 Dracula Has Risen from the Grave as Monsignor Ernst Mueller
- 1974 Frightmare as Edmund Yates
- 1964 The Big Breaker as Councillor Wally Cross
- 1969 The Oblong Box as Joshua Kemp
- 1967 Five Golden Dragons as Comm. Sanders
- 1950 The Angel with the Trumpet as Policeman
- 1991 Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook as Monsignor (archive footage)
- 2000 The Many Faces of Dracula as Monsignor (archive footage)
- 1955 The Dark Avenger as Sir John
- 1966 Target for Killing as Kommissar Saadi
- 1970 Waterloo as Gordon
- 1959 Devil's Bait as Landlord
- 1959 Violent Moment as Bert Glennon
- 1948 Health in Our Time
- 1959 Breakout as Morgan
- 1966 Maigret Plays Dirty as Maigret
- 1959 The Thought of Tomorrow as Geoffrey Hansbury
- 1971 Zeppelin as Captain Whitney
- 1964 The Uncle as David Morton
- 1959 Life In Emergency Ward 10 as R.S.O. Hunter
- 1959 Bobbikins
- 1960 Danger Tomorrow as Dr. Campbell
- 1971 The Night Visitor as Mr. Clemens
- 1982 Mike Leigh: Making Plays as Self (archive footage)
- 1968 Submarine X-1 as Vice Admiral Redmayne (uncredited)
- 1958 The Key as Baker
- 1971 The Firechasers as Prentice
- 1959 Sapphire as Ferris
- 1958 Sea Fury as Bosun
- 1959 John Paul Jones as British Captain
- 1975 King Arthur, the Young Warlord as Cerdig, Chief of the Saxons
- 1975 The After Dinner Game as Bartley Humbolt
- 1957 The Traitor as Clinton
- 1981 The Amazing Adventures Of Joe 90 as Professor Ian 'Mac' McClaine (voice)
- 1969 Maigret at Bay as Commissaire Jules Maigret
- 1968 Joe 90 ( 30 episodes ) as Professor Ian "Mac" McClaine (voice)
- 1963 Ready Steady Go! ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1968 The Champions ( 1 episode ) as Voss
- 1958 Ivanhoe ( 1 episode ) as Brother Gareth
- 1959 Interpol Calling ( 1 episode ) as Coetzee
- 1967 Man in a Suitcase ( 1 episode )
- 1973 Orson Welles' Great Mysteries ( 1 episode ) as Lemerie
- 1972 The Man Outside ( 13 episodes ) as Baker
- 1960 Maigret ( 52 episodes ) as Chief Inspector Maigret
- 1956 Armchair Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Inspector Shawcross
- 1958 The Invisible Man ( 1 episode ) as Dushkin
- 1972 Arthur of the Britons ( 3 episodes ) as Cerdig
- 1970 Play for Today ( 1 episode ) as Bartley Humbolt
- 1965 Thirty-Minute Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Lomov
- 1964 The Wednesday Play ( 1 episode ) as Councillor Wally Cross
- 1964 Detective ( 18 episodes ) as Chief Inspector Jules Maigret
- 1960 Danger Man ( 1 episode ) as Colonel Graves
- 1959 The Third Man ( 2 episodes ) as Arthur Shillings
- 1959 The Third Man ( 3 episodes ) as Insp. Arthur Shillings
- 1956 Armchair Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Banham
- 1956 Armchair Theatre ( 1 episode )
- 1956 Armchair Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Det. Insp.
- 1956 Armchair Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Geoffrey Hansbury
- 1956 Armchair Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Ramon Cintos
- 1956 Armchair Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Miffin
- 1955 Folio ( 1 episode ) as Canoris
- 1955 Lilli Palmer Theatre ( 1 episode )
- 1955 The Adventures of Robin Hood ( 1 episode ) as Simon Dexter
- 1950 Sunday Night Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Day-watchman
- 1950 Sunday Night Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Mr. Page
- 1950 Sunday Night Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Thompson
- 1950 Sunday Night Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Wing Commander
- 1950 Sunday Night Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Alec Roper
- 1950 Sunday Night Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Oderbruch
- 1950 Sunday Night Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Thomas Cromwell
- 1950 Sunday Night Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Maurice Szeps
- 1950 Sunday Night Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Frontier guard
- 1950 Sunday Night Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Walters
- 1950 Sunday Night Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Gabriel Mirabeau
- 1957 Sailor of Fortune ( 22 episodes ) as Alphonso - Italian Ship's Engineer
- 1964 Detective ( 1 episode ) as Chief Inspector Jules Maigret - Introduction
- 1965 BBC Play of the Month ( 1 episode ) as Commissaire Maigret
- 1963 Festival ( 1 episode ) as Chief of Police
- 1955 Quatermass II ( 2 episodes ) as Vincent Broadhead
- 1972 War & Peace ( 14 episodes ) as Ilya Rostov
- 1964 Detective ( 1 episode ) as Chief Inspector Jules Maigret - Introduction (uncredited)
- 1960 Sunday-Night Play ( 1 episode ) as Capt. Victor Mishlayevsky
- 1974 Father Brown ( 1 episode ) as Colonel Arthur Druce
- 1970 Biography ( 1 episode ) as Sir Almroth Wright
- 1957 Sailor of Fortune ( 4 episodes ) as Alphonso
