
Rupert Davies
Biography
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 …
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Filmography
Acting (70)
Movies (40)
The Many Faces of Dracula
2000as Monsignor (archive footage)
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991as Monsignor (archive footage)
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
1982as Self (archive footage)
The Amazing Adventures Of Joe 90
1981as Professor Ian 'Mac' McClaine (voice)
The After Dinner Game
1975as Bartley Humbolt
King Arthur, the Young Warlord
1975as Cerdig, Chief of the Saxons
Frightmare
1974as Edmund Yates
Zeppelin
1971as Captain Whitney
The Night Visitor
1971as Mr. Clemens
The Firechasers
1971as Prentice
Waterloo
1970as Gordon
The Oblong Box
1969as Joshua Kemp
Maigret at Bay
1969as Commissaire Jules Maigret
Witchfinder General
1968as John Lowes
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
1968as Monsignor Ernst Mueller
Curse of the Crimson Altar
1968as The Vicar (uncredited)
Submarine X-1
1968as Vice Admiral Redmayne (uncredited)
Five Golden Dragons
1967as Comm. Sanders
The Brides of Fu Manchu
1966as Jules Merlin
Maigret Plays Dirty
1966as Maigret
Target for Killing
1966as Kommissar Saadi
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1965as George Smiley
The Uncle
1964as David Morton
The Big Breaker
1964as Councillor Wally Cross
The Criminal
1960as Edwards
Danger Tomorrow
1960as Dr. Campbell
The Thought of Tomorrow
1959as Geoffrey Hansbury
Sapphire
1959as Ferris
John Paul Jones
1959as British Captain
Bobbikins
1959
Devil's Bait
1959as Landlord
Breakout
1959as Morgan
Violent Moment
1959as Bert Glennon
Life In Emergency Ward 10
1959as R.S.O. Hunter
The Key
1958as Baker
Sea Fury
1958as Bosun
The Traitor
1957as Clinton
The Dark Avenger
1955as Sir John
The Angel with the Trumpet
1950as Policeman
Health in Our Time
1948Television (30)
Father Brown
1974as Colonel Arthur Druce
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973as Lemerie
Arthur of the Britons
1972as Cerdig
War & Peace
1972as Count Ilya Rostov
War & Peace
1972as Ilya Rostov
The Man Outside
1972
Play for Today
1970as Bartley Humbolt
The Champions
1968as Voss
Joe 90
1968as Professor Ian "Mac" McClaine (voice)
Man in a Suitcase
1967
BBC Play of the Month
1965as Commissaire Maigret
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965as Lomov
The Wednesday Play
1964as Councillor Wally Cross
Detective
1964as Chief Inspector Jules Maigret
Detective
1964as Chief Inspector Jules Maigret - Introduction
Festival
1963as Chief of Police
Ready Steady Go!
1963as Self
Maigret
1960as Chief Inspector Maigret
Danger Man
1960as Colonel Graves
The Third Man
1959as Insp. Arthur Shillings
Interpol Calling
1959as Coetzee
The Invisible Man
1958as Dushkin
Ivanhoe
1958as Brother Gareth
Sailor of Fortune
1957as Alphonso - Italian Ship's Engineer
Armchair Theatre
1956as Banham
The Adventures of Robin Hood
1955as Simon Dexter
Folio
1955as Canoris
Quatermass II
1955as Vincent Broadhead
Lilli Palmer Theatre
1955
Sunday Night Theatre
1950as Day-watchman
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