Richard Davies

Known for ActingBorn 1926-01-25Died 2015-10-08Dowlais, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

The First Lady

Crane

Yes Minister

Fawlty Towers

The Sweeney

The Man in the Iron Mask

Where the Buffalo Roam

Festival

One Foot in the Grave

The Citadel

Behind Closed Doors

Doctor Who

Bottle Boys

Frank Stubbs Promotes

If You See God, Tell Him

2Point4 Children

Half Hour Story

Softly, Softly

Some People

Big Deal

Zulu

Offspring

The Saint

Dad

Z-Cars

Queen Sacrifice

The Fiction Makers

Centre Play

Whoops Apocalypse

The Lavender Hill Mob

Please Sir!

The Midas Plague

Gideon's Way

Moonstrike

The Bill

In Loving Memory

The Long Arm

The Night My Number Came Up

Steptoe & Son Ride Again

Twisted Nerve

The Boot Street Band

Oh! What a Lovely War

Rebecca's Daughters

Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt!

A Fever in the Blood

Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen

New Scotland Yard

Oliver's Travels