Rupert Davies
Born in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK — May 22 1916• Died Nov 22 1976
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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…
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Play for Today
Bartley Humbolt
BBC Play of the Month
Commissaire Maigret
The Champions
Voss
Sunday Night Theatre
Day-watchman
The Wednesday Play
Councillor Wally Cross
Danger Man
Colonel Graves
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Simon Dexter
Joe 90
Professor Ian "Mac" McClaine (voice)
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Lomov
Maigret
Chief Inspector Maigret
Interpol Calling
Coetzee
Festival
Chief of Police
The Third Man
Arthur Shillings
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
Lemerie
Folio
Canoris
Man in a Suitcase
Detective
Chief Inspector Jules Maigret
Father Brown
Colonel Arthur Druce
The Invisible Man
Dushkin
Ivanhoe
Brother Gareth
Ready Steady Go!
Self
Arthur of the Britons
Cerdig
War & Peace
Ilya Rostov
Sailor of Fortune
Alphonso - Italian Ship's Engineer
Lilli Palmer Theatre
Quatermass II
Vincent Broadhead
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
George Smiley
Waterloo
Gordon
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
Monsignor Ernst Mueller
Sapphire
Ferris
Armchair Theatre
Inspector Shawcross
Five Golden Dragons
Comm. Sanders
John Paul Jones
British Captain
The Key
Baker
The Traitor
Clinton
The Man Outside
Witchfinder General
John Lowes
The Many Faces of Dracula
Monsignor (archive footage)
The Oblong Box
Joshua Kemp
The Brides of Fu Manchu
Jules Merlin
The Night Visitor
Mr. Clemens
King Arthur, the Young Warlord
Cerdig, Chief of the Saxons
The Firechasers
Prentice
Zeppelin
Captain Whitney
The Uncle
David Morton
Sea Fury
Bosun
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Monsignor (archive footage)
Curse of the Crimson Altar
The Vicar (uncredited)
Bobbikins
Submarine X-1
Vice Admiral Redmayne (uncredited)
Maigret at Bay
Commissaire Jules Maigret
Target for Killing
Kommissar Saadi
The Dark Avenger
Sir John
The Thought of Tomorrow
Geoffrey Hansbury
The Angel with the Trumpet
Policeman
Life In Emergency Ward 10
R.S.O. Hunter
Devil's Bait
Landlord
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Self (archive footage)
Violent Moment
Bert Glennon
The Criminal
Edwards
Breakout
Morgan
Danger Tomorrow
Dr. Campbell
Frightmare
Edmund Yates
The Big Breaker
Councillor Wally Cross
The After Dinner Game
Bartley Humbolt
The Amazing Adventures Of Joe 90
Professor Ian 'Mac' McClaine (voice)
Health in Our Time
Maigret Plays Dirty
Maigret