Richard Davies

Biography

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.

Known For

Detective (uncredited)

The Long Arm

Bates

A Fever in the Blood

Police Driver

The Lavender Hill Mob

Wireless Operator

The Night My Number Came Up

Rick

Sky West and Crooked

Butcher

Steptoe & Son Ride Again

'Taffy' Evans

Twisted Nerve

Wil Bevan

Queen Sacrifice

Young Thomas

Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet

Rugby Fan (uncredited)

A Run for Your Money

Reporter

The Fiction Makers

Jones

Blue Blood

Where the Buffalo Roam

Harper

Some People

First Rebel

The Midas Plague

Sergeant in Burial Party (uncredited)

Oh! What a Lovely War

Private 593 Jones

Zulu

Brian's Father

"If Only..."

Burton

Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen

Mr Pritchard

Under Milk Wood

Doctor

The Mutations

Mr. Price

Please Sir!

Lewis

Rebecca's Daughters

Dennis

City of Fear!