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.
Jules Merlin
Filme 1966
Edwards
Filme 1960
John Lowes
Filme 1968
The Vicar (uncredited)
Filme 1968
Monsignor Ernst Mueller
Filme 1968
Edmund Yates
Filme 1974
Councillor Wally Cross
Filme 1964
Comm. Sanders
Filme 1967
Policeman
Filme 1950
Monsignor (archive footage)
Filme 2000
Sir John
Filme 1955
Kommissar Saadi
Filme 1966
Landlord
Filme 1959
Bert Glennon
Filme 1959
Filme 1948
Morgan
Filme 1959
Maigret
Filme 1966
Geoffrey Hansbury
Filme 1959
David Morton
Filme 1965
R.S.O. Hunter
Filme 1959
Filme 1959
Dr. Campbell
Filme 1960
Self (archive footage)
Filme 1982
Vice Admiral Redmayne (uncredited)
Filme 1968
Baker
Filme 1958
Prentice
Filme 1971
Ferris
Filme 1959
Bosun
Filme 1958
Bartley Humbolt
Filme 1975
Clinton
Filme 1957
Count Ilya Rostov
Tv 1972
Tv 1968
Self
Tv 1963
Voss
Tv 1968
Brother Gareth
Tv 1958
Coetzee
Tv 1959
Tv 1967
Lemerie
Tv 1973
Tv 1972
Chief Inspector Maigret
Tv 1960
Colonel Arthur Druce
Tv 1974
Inspector Shawcross
Tv 1956
Dushkin
Tv 1958
Cerdig
Tv 1972
Vincent Broadhead
Tv 1955
Bartley Humbolt
Tv 1970
Lomov
Tv 1965
Councillor Wally Cross
Tv 1964
Chief Inspector Jules Maigret
Tv 1964
Colonel Graves
Tv 1960
Arthur Shillings
Tv 1959
Insp. Arthur Shillings
Tv 1959
Banham
Tv 1956
Tv 1956
Det. Insp.
Tv 1956
Geoffrey Hansbury
Tv 1956
Ramon Cintos
Tv 1956
Miffin
Tv 1956
Canoris
Tv 1955
Tv 1955
Simon Dexter
Tv 1955