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Dennis Wilfred Davies, known professionally as Richard Davies (25 January 1926 – 8 October 2015), was a Welsh actor.He was probably best known for his performance as the exasperated schoolmaster Mr. Price in the popular LWT situation comedy Please Sir! He used a broad Welsh accent for much of his work, but had used other accents to play a wide range of characters, in addition to several Welsh stereotypes
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Dennis Wilfred Davies, known professionally as Richard Davies (25 January 1926 – 8 October 2015), was a Welsh actor.He was probably best known for his performance as the exasperated schoolmaster Mr. Price in the popular LWT situation comedy Please Sir! He used a broad Welsh accent for much of his work, but had used other accents to play a wide range of characters, in addition to several Welsh stereotypes
1962
Dennis Wilfred Davies, known professionally as Richard Davies (25 January 1926 – 8 October 2015), was a Welsh actor.He was probably best known for his performance as the exasperated schoolmaster Mr. Price in the popular LWT situation comedy Please Sir! He used a broad Welsh accent for much of his work, but had used other accents to play a wide range of characters, in addition to several Welsh stereotypes
Davies was born in Dowlais, near Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, the son of a railway guard. He played Idris Hopkins in Coronation Street between 1974 and 1975, and appeared in several science-fiction series, among them Robert's Robots, Out of the Unknown, and a well-received performance as Burton in the 1987 Doctor Who story Delta and the Bannermen. He played Mr. White in the Fawlty Towers episode "The Kipper and the Corpse" and also appeared in Yes Minister, Wyatt's Watchdogs, May to December, Whoops Apocalypse, 2point4 Children and One Foot in the Grave. In 1970, he appeared in an episode of Two in Clover as Victor Spinetti's character's brother when Spinetti was unavailable. His other main role was in the comedy series Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt where he played Clive.
Davies had a recurring role as Jim Sloan in Z-Cars between 1962 and 1965, returning to the series playing different characters in 1968 and in its spin-off Softly, Softly. He also appeared in Dixon of Dock Green, The Sweeney and Van der Valk. He impersonated Clive Jenkins in a spoof edition of Question Time in a sketch on Not the Nine O'Clock News. He appeared in the Please Sir! spin-off series The Fenn Street Gang. In 1951, he made an uncredited appearance in the Ealing Studios comedy The Lavender Hill Mob. He had appeared in films such as Zulu (1964), the film adaptation of Please Sir! (1971), and Under Milk Wood (1972). In 1988, he played the schoolteacher in Queen Sacrifice. He died on 8 October 2015 at the age of 89, survived by his wife and two children, and a son from his first marriage after a battle against Alzheimer's disease.
Gender
Male
Birthday
January 25, 1926
Died
October 8, 2015
Birthplace
Dowlais, Wales, UK
Under Milk Wood
1972
Steptoe & Son Ride Again
1973
The Night My Number Came Up
1955
Rebecca's Daughters
1992
Zulu
1964
Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen
1987
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969
Sky West and Crooked
1966
Some People
1962
Blue Blood
1974
Queen Sacrifice
1988
The Lavender Hill Mob
1951
Twisted Nerve
1968
The Long Arm
1956
Where the Buffalo Roam
1966
A Run for Your Money
1949
The Mutations
1974
A Fever in the Blood
1961
The Fiction Makers
1968
"If Only..."
1980
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Doctor Who
1963
Coronation Street
1960
The Saint
1962
Softly, Softly
1966
The Bill
1984
Z-Cars
1962
Van der Valk
1972
The Sweeney
1975
No Hiding Place
1959
Angels
1975
The Wednesday Play
1964
The Wednesday Play
1964
The Wednesday Play
1964
The Wednesday Play
1964
Yes Minister
1980
Fawlty Towers
1975
Gideon's Way
1965
Gideon's Way
1965
Gideon's Way
1965
2Point4 Children
1991
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