Nigel Davenport

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Known For Acting

Known Credits 98

Gender Male

Birthday May 23, 1928

Day of Death October 25, 2013 (85 years old)

Place of Birth Shelford, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

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Arthur Nigel Davenport

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Nigel Davenport

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Arthur Nigel Davenport (23 May 1928 – 25 October 2013) was an English stage, television and film actor, best known as the Duke of Norfolk and Lord Birkenhead in the Academy Award-winning films A Man for All Seasons and Chariots of Fire, respectively.

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2024

as Self (archive footage)

2001

as Dan Peggotty

2000		The Mumbo Jumbo as Major cowpat
2000		Longitude (2 episodes) as Sir Charles Pelham
2000		Longitude as Sir Charles Pelham

1998		El Coyote: Don César de Echagüe as Don César de Echagüe, padre
1998		La vuelta del Coyote as César de Echagüe
1998		Mosley (1 episode) as Lord Rothermere
1998		Mosley as Lord Rothermere

1997		Hotel Shanghai as Butler
1997		The Opium War
1997		Midsomer Murders (1 episode) as William Smithers

1996		The Treasure Seekers as Lord Blackstock
1996		The Circus Connection as Stadnicki

1993

(1 episode) as Sir Arthur Andrews

1992

1990		Keeping Up Appearances (1 episode) as The Commodore
1990		The Upper Hand (1 episode) as Mr. Hamilton (1 episode) as Mr. Douglas Hamilton

1988

as Lord Smithwick

1986		Caravaggio as Giustiniani
1986		Ladies in Charge (1 episode)
1986		Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy (6 episodes) as Ismay

1985

(29 episodes) as Sir Edward Frere

1984		The Biko Inquest as Colonel Goosen
1984		A Christmas Carol as Silas Scrooge
1984		An Inspector Calls as Arthur Birling
1984		Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes as Major Jack Downing

1983

as Victor

1982		An Inspector Calls (3 episodes) as Arthur Birling
1982		Bird of Prey (8 episodes)
1982		Don't Rock The Boat (12 episodes)

1981		A Midsummer Night's Dream as Theseus
1981		The Uppercrust as Pigel
1981		Chariots of Fire as Lord Birkenhead
1981		Masada (4 episodes) as Mucianus
1981		Nighthawks as Peter Hartman

1980		Cry of the Innocent as Gray Harrison Hunt
1980		The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd as Colonel George Grenfell

1979		The London Connection as Arthur Minton
1979		Minder (1 episode) as Ray
1979		Prince Regent (8 episodes) as King George III
1979		Zulu Dawn as Col. Hamilton-Brown

1978

(1 episode) as Theseus

1977		The Island of Dr. Moreau as Montgomery
1977		Stand up, Virgin Soldiers as Driscoll
1977		Romance (1 episode)

1976

as Lt. Ben Deel

1975		Oil Strike North (13 episodes)
1975		The Apple Cart as King Magnus

1974		The Regent's Wife as Álvaro Mesía
1974		South Riding
1974		Phase IV as Dr. Ernest D. Hubbs
1974		Dracula as Van Helsing

1973		The Picture of Dorian Gray as Sir Harry Wotton
1973		Charley-One-Eye as The Bounty Hunter

1972		The Edwardians (1 episode) as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1972		The Assassination as CIA Official
1972		Living Free as George Adamson
1972		Shirley's World (1 episode)

1971		Mary, Queen of Scots as Lord Bothwell
1971		Villain as Bob Matthews
1971		The Last Valley as Gruber

1970		The Mind of Mr. Soames as Dr. Maitland
1970		No Blade of Grass as John Custance

1969		The Virgin Soldiers as Sgt Driscoll
1969		The Royal Hunt of the Sun as De Soto
1969		Sinful Davey as Wachtmeister Richardson
1969		Play Dirty as Capt. Cyril Leech

1968		The Name of the Game (1 episode) as David Windom
1968		The Strange Affair
1968		Sebastian as Gen. Phillips
1968		The News-Benders as Robert Larkin

1967

as Lesgate

1966		A Man for All Seasons as The Duke of Norfolk
1966		Shotgun as Joshua
1966		Where the Spies Are as Parkington

1965		Life at the Top as Mottram
1965		Sands of the Kalahari as Sturdevan
1965		A High Wind in Jamaica as Mr. Thornton

1964		The Bone Yard as Inspector Potter
1964		The Third Secret as Lew Harding
1964		The Verdict as Larry Mason

1963		Ladies Who Do as Mr. Strang
1963		In the Cool of the Day as Leonard Groves
1963		Bitter Harvest as Police Inspector
1963		Return to Sender as Dino Steffano

1962		The Saint (1 episode) as Charles Voyson (1 episode) as Aldo Petri
1962		Man of the World (1 episode)
1962		Lunch Hour as Personnel Manager

1961		Sir Francis Drake (1 episode) as Don Miguel de Cervantes
1961		The Avengers (2 episodes) as Lord Barnes

1960		The Entertainer as Theatre Manager (uncredited)
1960		Peeping Tom as Det. Sgt. Miller (uncredited)

1959

as 1st Commercial Traveller

1956

(1 episode)

1955		Othello as Lodovico
1955		The Adventures of Robin Hood (1 episode) as Sir Peter Marston (1 episode) as Claude the Seneschal (1 episode) as Barty (1 episode) as Sentry (1 episode) as Sir James (1 episode) as Captain (1 episode) as Loud Lawrence

1950

(1 episode) as Jackson

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