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Biography

Davies was born 6 March 1966 in Essex, England. His childhood years were spent in Chingford and Loughton, attending Bancroft's School in Woodford Green. He graduated from the University of Kent. March 6 is the 65th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (66th in Leap years). ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... This article is about the county of Essex in England. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ... Chingford is a town in London Borough of Waltham Forest. ... For other places with the same name, see Loughton (disambiguation). ... The University of Kent is a plate glass campus university in Kent, England. ...

Comedy and acting career

Alan Davies, as seen in the Jonathan Creek TV series.

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Davies later moved into television acting and played Jonathan Creek, a stage magician with a side interest in solving crimes, between 1997 and 2004. Davies began presenting his own radio show The Alan Davies Show in 1998. In 2001 he played Robert Gossage in Bob and Rose, a comedy drama about a gay man falling for a woman. He currently appears as a permanent panellist on the BBC quiz game QI hosted by Stephen Fry. He also wrote in the QI book, called the Book of General Ignorance, however he only wrote four words, which appeared after Stephen Fry's foreword in which he wrote "Will this do, Stephen?" Jonathan Creek is a mystery television series produced by the BBC and written by David Renwick. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ... Bob and Rose is a British television drama, originally screened in six one-hour episodes on the ITV network in the UK in the autumn of 2001. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... GAY can mean: Gay, a term referring to homosexual men or women The IATA code for Gaya Airport Category: ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion... QI, standing for Quite Interesting and a play on IQ, is a comedy panel game television show hosted by Stephen Fry and shown on BBC Two and BBC Four. ... Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, author, actor and filmmaker. ...

He championed the case for John Lennon to be the greatest Briton of all time on the BBC's Great Britons series in 2002. In 2007, Alan starred in the second episode of ITV1's You Don't Know You're Born. John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980), (born John Winston Lennon, known as John Ono Lennon) was an iconic English 20th century rock and roll songwriter and singer, best known as the founding member of The Beatles. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion... In 2002, the BBC conducted a vote to discover the 100 Greatest Britons of all time. ... ITV1 is the name, in England, Wales and the Scottish borders, for a terrestrial, free-to-air television channel, broadcast in the United Kingdom by the ITV network. ... You Dont Know Youre Born was a British television documentary series where celebrities looked into their family tree. ...

Personal life

• Davies married literary agent Kate Maskell in January 2007^[1]. Previous girlfriends have included Catherine Porter, actress Julia Sawalha, and presenter Kirsten O'Brien
• He is a Pesco vegetarian. His vegetarianism has been mentioned on several editions of QI but on You Don't Know You're Born it was revealed that he does eat fish.
• Davies is recorded as being a regular deep sea diver, a fact also mentioned on several editions of QI.
• He's a renowned Arsenal fan. He wrote a weekly football column for The Times for two years, and has been occasionally featured in vignettes for Match of the Day 2.
• He is good friends with Bill Bailey. He chose him to be his best man at his wedding in January 2007. He commented that his speech was very funny.

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References

1. ^ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-2363491_2,00.html

External links

• Alan Davies at the Internet Movie Database
• Alan Davies' Fanlisting