Rupert Davies
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Won 1 BAFTA Award
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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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Acting
57 credits
Play for Today
BBC Play of the Month
The Wednesday Play
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Maigret
Sunday Night Theatre
Danger Man
The Champions
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Sunday-Night Play
The Third Man
Detective
Festival
Interpol Calling
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
Folio
Ivanhoe
Ready Steady Go!
Father Brown
War & Peace
Joe 90
Arthur of the Britons
The Invisible Man
Waterloo
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Sapphire
Sailor of Fortune
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
The Oblong Box
Witchfinder General
The Key
The Man Outside
John Paul Jones
The Night Visitor
Quatermass II
The Criminal
Curse of the Crimson Altar
Five Golden Dragons
Armchair Theatre
Zeppelin
Breakout
Biography
The Dark Avenger
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
The Brides of Fu Manchu
Maigret at Bay
Target for Killing
King Arthur, the Young Warlord
Life In Emergency Ward 10
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Submarine X-1
The Traitor
The Many Faces of Dracula
The Firechasers
Sea Fury
Frightmare
The Thought of Tomorrow
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