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