From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaRupert Davies (22 May 1916 – 22 November 1976) was a British actor. He remains best known for playing the title role in the BBCs 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.

Filmes indisponível de Rupert Davies

The Brides of Fu Manchu

Jules Merlin

Filme 1966

The Criminal

Edwards

Filme 1960

Witchfinder General

John Lowes

Filme 1968

Curse of the Crimson Altar

The Vicar (uncredited)

Filme 1968

Dracula Has Risen from the Grave

Monsignor Ernst Mueller

Filme 1968

Frightmare

Edmund Yates

Filme 1974

The Big Breaker

Councillor Wally Cross

Filme 1964

Five Golden Dragons

Comm. Sanders

Filme 1967

The Angel with the Trumpet

Policeman

Filme 1950

The Many Faces of Dracula

Monsignor (archive footage)

Filme 2000

The Dark Avenger

Sir John

Filme 1955

Target for Killing

Kommissar Saadi

Filme 1966

Devil's Bait

Landlord

Filme 1959

Violent Moment

Bert Glennon

Filme 1959

Health in Our Time

Filme 1948

Breakout

Morgan

Filme 1959

Maigret Plays Dirty

Maigret

Filme 1966

The Thought of Tomorrow

Geoffrey Hansbury

Filme 1959

The Uncle

David Morton

Filme 1965

Life In Emergency Ward 10

R.S.O. Hunter

Filme 1959

Bobbikins

Filme 1959

Danger Tomorrow

Dr. Campbell

Filme 1960

Mike Leigh: Making Plays

Self (archive footage)

Filme 1982

Submarine X-1

Vice Admiral Redmayne (uncredited)

Filme 1968

The Key

Baker

Filme 1958

The Firechasers

Prentice

Filme 1971

Sapphire

Ferris

Filme 1959

Sea Fury

Bosun

Filme 1958

The After Dinner Game

Bartley Humbolt

Filme 1975

The Traitor

Clinton

Filme 1957

Série de TV indisponível de Rupert Davies

War & Peace

Count Ilya Rostov

Tv 1972

Joe 90

Tv 1968

Ready Steady Go!

Self

Tv 1963

The Champions

Voss

Tv 1968

Ivanhoe

Brother Gareth

Tv 1958

Interpol Calling

Coetzee

Tv 1959

Man in a Suitcase

Tv 1967

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries

Lemerie

Tv 1973

The Man Outside

Tv 1972

Maigret

Chief Inspector Maigret

Tv 1960

Father Brown

Colonel Arthur Druce

Tv 1974

Armchair Theatre

Inspector Shawcross

Tv 1956

The Invisible Man

Dushkin

Tv 1958

Arthur of the Britons

Cerdig

Tv 1972

Quatermass II

Vincent Broadhead

Tv 1955

Play for Today

Bartley Humbolt

Tv 1970

Thirty-Minute Theatre

Lomov

Tv 1965

The Wednesday Play

Councillor Wally Cross

Tv 1964

Detective

Chief Inspector Jules Maigret

Tv 1964

Danger Man

Colonel Graves

Tv 1960

The Third Man

Arthur Shillings

Tv 1959

The Third Man

Insp. Arthur Shillings

Tv 1959

Armchair Theatre

Banham

Tv 1956

Armchair Theatre

Tv 1956

Armchair Theatre

Det. Insp.

Tv 1956

Armchair Theatre

Geoffrey Hansbury

Tv 1956

Armchair Theatre

Ramon Cintos

Tv 1956

Armchair Theatre

Miffin

Tv 1956

Folio

Canoris

Tv 1955

Lilli Palmer Theatre

Tv 1955

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Simon Dexter

Tv 1955