Rupert Davies
Acting
Born May 22, 1916 · Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK
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 off the Dutch Coast. Davies was captured and interned in the famous Stalag Luft III POW camp. He mad…
Known For · 40 titles
Play for Today
The Adventures of Robin Hood
BBC Play of the Month
The Wednesday Play
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Maigret
Sunday-Night Play
Sunday Night Theatre
The Champions
Danger Man
Interpol Calling
Ready Steady Go!
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
The Third Man
Festival
Detective
Man in a Suitcase
Folio
Father Brown
Ivanhoe
The Invisible Man
Sailor of Fortune
War & Peace
Lilli Palmer Theatre
Joe 90
Arthur of the Britons
Waterloo
Sapphire
Armchair Theatre
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Witchfinder General
Five Golden Dragons
The Man Outside
Curse of the Crimson Altar
Quatermass II
John Paul Jones
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
The Oblong Box
Biography
The Key