John Howard Davies (born London 9 March 1939) is a British film actor, television director and producer. London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... March 9 is the 68th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (69th in Leap years). ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A television director is usually responsible for directing the actors and other taped aspects of a television production. ... A Television producer oversees the making of television penis programs. ...

Davies was the son of the cricketer and scriptwriter Jack Davies. His credits as a child actor include the title role in David Lean's Oliver Twist, The Rocking Horse Winner, Tom Brown's Schooldays' and William Tell. A cricketer is a term used to refer to a person who plays cricket. ... The term child actor is generally applied to a child acting in motion pictures or television, but also to an adult who began his or her acting career as a child; to avoid confusion the latter is also called a former child actor. ... Sir David Lean, KBE (March 25, 1908 – April 16, 1991) was an English film director and producer, best remembered for big-screen epics such as Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai, and Doctor Zhivago . ... Oliver Twist, (1948). ... The Rocking-Horse Winner is a short story by David Herbert Lawrence. ... Cover of 1999 re-issue by Oxford Worlds Classics Tom Browns Schooldays, first published in 1857, is a novel by Thomas Hughes, set at a public school, Rugby School for Boys, in the 1830s when Hughes himself had been a student there. ... Statue of Wilhelm Tell and his Son in Altdorf, Switzerland (Richard Kissling, 1895). ...

He is now best known for his adult career as a director and producer of several highly successful British sitcoms. Davies was the original producer and director of Monty Python's Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers (series 1), The Goodies, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, To the Manor Born, No Job for a Lady and Mr. Bean. He also directed the 1967 Doctor Who serial The Macra Terror and several episodes of The Vicar of Dibley. A British sitcom is a situation comedy (sitcom) produced in the United Kingdom. ... Monty Pythons Flying Circus (also known as Flying Circus, MPFC or just Monty Python during the fourth season) was a highly popular, surreal BBC sketch comedy show from Monty Python, and the groups initial claim to fame. ... Fawlty Towers was a British sitcom made by the BBC and first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975. ... The Goodies was a surreal British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s combining sketches and situation comedy and starring Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie. ... The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin is a novel and British sitcom starring Leonard Rossiter in the title role. ... To the Manor Born was a popular and high-rating British sitcom which ran for a total of twenty one episodes over three series between 1979 and 1981. ... No Job for a Lady was a British television sitcom, broadcast in three series between 1990 and 1992. ... Mr. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC about a mysterious time-travelling adventurer known as The Doctor, who explores time and space with his companions, fighting evil. ... The Macra Terror is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from March 11 to April 1, 1967. ... The Vicar of Dibley is a British sitcom created by Richard Curtis, and mostly written by Curtis and Paul Mayhew-Archer. ...

He was the BBC Head of Comedy (1977-1982), managing director of EMI Television Productions and Thames Television's Head of Comedy during which time he was the man responsible for sacking the famed British comedian, Benny Hill. For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alfred Hawthorn Hill (January 21, 1924 – April 20, 1992), better known as Benny Hill, was a prolific English comic, actor & singer, best known for his television program, The Benny Hill Show. ...

While visiting Australia to work for the Melbourne impresario, Garnett H. Carroll, in 1961(?), he met and later married his first wife, the vivaceous soprano Leonie Taylor, whom he brought back to a stylish Wimbledon retreat.

External links

• John Howard Davies at the Internet Movie Database
• BFI ScreenOnline - John Howard Davies