1926-01-25 ( 99 years old ) in Dowlais, Wales, UK
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.
Movies
Rebecca's Daughters
1992-03-05
Queen Sacrifice
1988-07-04
Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen
1987-11-16
"If Only..."
1980-03-20
Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet
1978-11-09
City of Fear!
1976-09-17
Blue Blood
1974-11-01
The Mutations
1974-05-22
Steptoe & Son Ride Again
1973-05-01
Under Milk Wood
1972-01-27
Please Sir!
1971-05-01
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969-03-10
Twisted Nerve
1968-12-20
The Fiction Makers
1968-12-08
Where the Buffalo Roam
1966-11-02
The Midas Plague
1965-12-20
Sky West and Crooked
1965-08-31
Zulu
1964-01-22
Some People
1962-05-31
A Fever in the Blood
1961-01-28
The Long Arm
1956-06-01
The Night My Number Came Up
1955-03-22
The Lavender Hill Mob
1951-06-28
A Run for Your Money
1949-11-23
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