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Rupert Lisburn Gwynne Davies
Rupert Davies
Acting
Biography
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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 mad…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
The Many Faces of Dracula
as Monsignor (archive footage)
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
as Monsignor (archive footage)
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
as Self (archive footage)
The Amazing Adventures Of Joe 90
as Professor Ian 'Mac' McClaine (voice)
King Arthur, the Young Warlord
as Cerdig, Chief of the Saxons
The After Dinner Game
as Bartley Humbolt
Frightmare
as Edmund Yates
The Night Visitor
as Mr. Clemens
Zeppelin
as Captain Whitney
The Firechasers
as Prentice
TV Shows
Father Brown
as Colonel Arthur Druce · 1 ep.
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
as Lemerie · 1 ep.
War & Peace
as Ilya Rostov · 14 ep.
Arthur of the Britons
as Cerdig · 3 ep.
The Man Outside
13 ep.
Play for Today
as Bartley Humbolt · 1 ep.
The Champions
as Voss · 1 ep.
Joe 90
as Professor Ian "Mac" McClaine (voice) · 30 ep.
Man in a Suitcase
1 ep.
BBC Play of the Month
as Commissaire Maigret · 1 ep.