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 made three attempts to escape. All failed. It was during his captivity that he began to take part in theatre performances, entertaining his fellow prisoners. On his release, Davies resumed his career in acting almost immediately, starring in an ex Prisoner Of War show, 'Back Home', which was hosted at the Stoll Theatre, London. After the war Davies became a staple of British television appearing in numerous plays and series, including Quatermass II, Ivanhoe, Emergency - Ward 10, Danger Man, The Champions, Doctor at Large (1971), Arthur of the Britons and War and Peace (1972). He also provided the voice of "Professor Ian McClaine" in the Gerry Anderson series Joe 90. In 1964 he became the first person to be awarded Pipe Smoker of the Year. Davies also played supporting roles in many films, appearing briefly as George Smiley in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965). He also appeared in several horror films in the late 1960s, including Witchfinder General (1968) and Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968), as well as such international blockbusters as Waterloo (1970) and Zeppelin (1971). He died of cancer in London in 1976, leaving a wife, Jessica, and two sons, Timothy and Hogan, and is buried at Pistyll Cemetery, near Nefyn in North Wales. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rupert Davies, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

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

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 1982Mike Leigh: Making Plays — Self (archive footage)
• Ready Steady Go! — Self