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Nigel Davenport

Acting

Born May 23, 1928 · Shelford, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

Died October 25, 2013

Also known as Arthur Nigel Davenport

Biography

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.

Filmography33 titles

The Avengers

1961as Lord Barnes

Keeping Up Appearances

1990as The Commodore

Midsomer Murders

1997as William Smithers

A Christmas Carol

1984as Silas Scrooge

Peeping Tom

1960as Det. Sgt. Miller (uncredited)

The Saint

1962as Aldo Petri

A Man for All Seasons

1966as The Duke of Norfolk

The Mumbo Jumbo

2000as Major cowpat

Ladies Who Do

1963as Mr. Strang

Chariots of Fire

1981as Lord Birkenhead

Without a Clue

1988as Lord Smithwick

Mary, Queen of Scots

1971as Lord Bothwell

Look Back in Anger

1959as 1st Commercial Traveller

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

1984as Major Jack Downing

Nighthawks

1981as Peter Hartman

The Adventures of Robin Hood

1955as Claude the Seneschal

Phase IV

1974as Dr. Ernest D. Hubbs

Dracula

1974as Van Helsing

Play Dirty

1969as Capt. Cyril Leech

Sands of the Kalahari

1965as Sturdevan

The Picture of Dorian Gray

1973as Sir Harry Wotton

Villain

1971as Bob Matthews

The Entertainer

1960as Theatre Manager (uncredited)

Caravaggio

1986as Giustiniani

Zulu Dawn

1979as Col. Hamilton-Brown

The Royal Hunt of the Sun

1969as De Soto

In the Cool of the Day

1963as Leonard Groves

The Island of Dr. Moreau

1977as Montgomery

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1981as Theseus

No Blade of Grass

1970as John Custance

Sinful Davey

1969as Richardson

The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd

1980as Colonel George Grenfell

Charley One-Eye

1973as The Bounty Hunter