John Howard Davies (born Paddington, London; 9 March 1939 — 22 August 2011) was a British television director, producer and former child actor. Davies was the son of the scriptwriter Jack Davies. His credits as a child actor include the title role in David Lean's Oliver Twist (1948), The Rocking Horse Winner (1949), Tom Brown's Schooldays (1951) and a few episodes of the television series William Tell (1958). After school at Haileybury, further education at Grenoble and National Service in the Royal Navy, he started working in the City in a finance company. After that, he trained as a carpet salesman but quit after six months to travel the world. Ending up in Australia he returned to acting and met his wife Leonie when they both appeared in The Sound of Music. Back in Britain, he tried selling oil to industry in Wembley and then became a production assistant in the BBC at the end of 1968. Davies is best known for his adult career as director and producer of several highly successful British sitcoms, including All Gas and Gaiters, Fawlty Towers (series 1), The Goodies, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, The Good Life, No Job for a Lady and Mr. Bean. Davies was also the producer and director of the sketch show The World of Beachcomber and the earliest episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus. He also directed several episodes of The Vicar of Dibley. He became the BBC's Head of Comedy from 1977-1982, then head of Light Entertainment and finally Controller Managing Director of EMI Television Productions and the Head of Light Entertainment at ITV broadcaster Thames Television. During the last role, he was cited by the popular press as the man who 'sacked' comedian Benny Hill when the station decided not to renew his contract after 20 years' service. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Howard Davies, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Фільмографія

• 2025The Good Life: Inside Out
• 2010All About The Good Life
• 1995Mr. Bean: Torvill and Bean — Director
• Hope It Rains — Director, Producer
• 1991The Exciting Escapades of Mr. Bean — Producer, Director
• 1990Dors: The Other Diana
• No Job for a Lady — Producer, Director, Creator
• Містер Бін — Director, Producer
• After Henry — Executive Producer
• Andy Capp — Producer, Director
• 1987Bloody New Year — Assistant Director
• The Ruth Rendell Mysteries — Director
• Executive Stress — Producer, Director
• 1986The Paul McCartney Special — Director
• All in Good Faith — Director, Creator
• 1984Kim — Director
• Mr. Palfrey of Westminster — Director
• The Bill — Director
• A Married Man — Producer
• 1983The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin — Director, Producer
• Tales of the Unexpected — Director
• 1979Tales of the Unexpected: Lamb to the Slaughter — Director
• Raffles — Director
• The Other One — Director
• The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin — Producer, Director
• The Good Life — Producer, Director
• Готель "Башти Фолті" — Producer, Director
• Whoops Baghdad — Producer, Director, Creator
• It's Awfully Bad for Your Eyes, Darling — Producer
• Летючий Цирк Монті Пайтона — Director, Creator
• The World of Beachcomber — Director, Creator
• All Gas and Gaiters — Director, Producer
• Misleading Cases — Producer, Director
• Steptoe and Son — Director
• Comedy Playhouse — Director
• The Adventures of William Tell — Karl, Bruno
• About Religion
• 1952The Magic Box — Maurice Friese-Greene
• 1951Tom Brown's Schooldays — Tom Brown
• 1949The Rocking Horse Winner — Paul Grahame
• 1948Олівер Твіст — Oliver Twist

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (3)

• 2009Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened — Self – Series Director
• 2009Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News — Self
• 2007What the Pythons Did Next... — Self