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Encyclopedia > Oliver Ford Davies

Oliver Robert Ford Davies (born August 12, 1939) is a British actor and writer. From the King's School, Canterbury, he won a scholarship to Merton College, Oxford, where he read History and became President of the Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS). is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Canterbury Cathedral and Kings School The Kings School in Canterbury, Kent, is a co-educational public school with boarding and day pupils. ... College name The House of Scholars of Merton Named after Walter de Merton Established 1264 Sister College Peterhouse Warden Prof. ... The Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS) is the principal funding body and provider of theatrical services to the many independent student productions put on by students in Oxford, England. ...


He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award in 1990 (1989 season) for Best Actor in a New Play for Racing Demon. He was nominated for a 2004 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role of 2003 for his performance in Absolutely! (perhaps) at the Wyndham's Theatre. The Laurence Olivier Awards, previously known as The Society of West End Theatre Awards, were renamed in honour of British actor Laurence Olivier, Baron Olivier in 1984, having first been established in 1976. ... Racing Demon is a 1990 play by British playwright David Hare. ...


He had a regular role as Peter Foxcott QC in Kavanagh QC. He also appeared in the ITV television drama The Uninvited, and in one episode of the popular drama Foyle's War. QC can stand for: Air Corridor IATA airline designator Quezon City, a highly urbanized city in the Republic of the Philippines. ... Kavanagh QC is a British television series made by Carlton Television for ITV between 1995 and 2001. ... Independent Television (generally known as ITV, but also as ITV Network) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. ITV is the oldest commercial television network in the UK. Since 1990 and the Broadcasting... The Uninvited is an ITV science fiction television series first shown in 1997. ... Series One of the ITV programme Foyles War was first aired in 2002. ... Foyles War is a detective television programme created by screen-writer and author Anthony Horowitz, and commissioned by ITV after the long-running detective series Inspector Morse came to an end in 2000. ...


Oliver Ford Davies' books include Playing Lear, an account of his experience while performing King Lear at the Almeida Theatre, and Performing Shakespeare. Both are published by Nick Hern Books. A selection of playscripts published by Nick Hern Books (Details). ...

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Television Credits

  • Waking the Dead (Hugo Keegan)
  • Midsomer Murders (Otto Benham)
  • Cherished (Lord Justice Judge)
  • Rosemary & Thyme (Sir Basil Slavinski)
  • Wren: The Man Who Built Britain (Sir Roger Pratt)
  • Sparkling Cyanide (Col. Geoffrey Reece)
  • Spooks (Sir Richard 'Dickie' Bowman)
  • My Uncle Silas (Cosmo)
  • Foyle's War (Lawrence Gascoigne)
  • Sirens (Henry Marshall)
  • Murder (Father Daniel)
  • A History of Britain
  • Bertie and Elizabeth (Archbishop Lang)
  • Sunday (Lord Halisham)
  • The Way We Live Now (Mr. Longestaffe)
  • Fire, Plague, War and Treason (voice)
  • Just Visiting (Pit Rivers)
  • Poirot (Dr. Sheppard)
  • David Copperfield (Mr. Wickfield)
  • Kavanagh QC (Peter Foxcott QC)
  • Heartbeat (Henry Tomkinson)
  • McLibel (Dr. Arnott)
  • The Uninvited
  • A Dance to the Music of Time (Le Bas)
  • Pie in the Sky (James Truman)
  • Wycliffe (Dr. Donald Treloar)
  • A Royal Scandal (Lord Liverpool)
  • Truth or Dare (Derek McKendrick)
  • Coogan's Run (Dr. Phillips)
  • A Landing on the Sun (Treacher)
  • MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis (Prof. Carson)
  • Between the Lines (John Gollap)
  • Alleyn Mysteries (Sir Herbert Carrados)
  • Maigret (Dr. Pardon)
  • The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (Ship's Captain)
  • Van der Valk (Guus Kroese)
  • The Cloning of Joanna May (Gerald)
  • Goodbye Cruel World (Collins)
  • Inspector Morse (Frederick Redpath)
  • The War That Never Ends (Melian Representative)
  • The Police
  • Chancer (Vicar)
  • Casualty (The Major)
  • Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story (Police Commander)
  • Jade (Professor)
  • A Taste for Death (Father Francis Barnes)
  • A Very British Coup (Tweed)
  • A Very Peculiar Practice (Lecturer)
  • Hannay (Russian Ambassador)
  • Death of a Son (Prosecuting Counsel)
  • Cause célèbre (J.D. Casswell)
  • Mitch
  • The Citadel (Reverend Parry)
  • Tenko (Priest)
  • Philby, Burgess and Maclean (Patterson)
  • Father Brown (Det. Insp. Corliss)
  • The Protectors (Hansen)
  • Moonbase 3 (Astronaut)
  • The Brontes of Haworth (John Hunter Thompson)
  • Spyder's Web (Heath)

Waking the Dead is a British television crime drama series produced by the BBC featuring a team of CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist or pathologist. ... Midsomer Murders is a popular British television series about murders that take place in the fictional English county of Midsomer. ... Rosemary & Thyme was a British television series that starred Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris as gardening detectives Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme. ... For the Three Stooges film, see Spooks!. Spooks is a British television drama series, produced by the independent production company Kudos for BBC One. ... Foyles War is a detective television programme created by screen-writer and author Anthony Horowitz, and commissioned by ITV after the long-running detective series Inspector Morse came to an end in 2000. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Agatha Christies Poirot (U.S. title Poirot) is a popular British television series starring David Suchet as Agatha Christies detective character Hercule Poirot. ... Kavanagh QC is a British television series made by Carlton Television for ITV between 1995 and 2001. ... Heartbeat is a long-running British TV police drama series set in 1960s Yorkshire. ... Pie in the sky could refer to : A fanciful notion or ludicrous concept. ... Wycliffe was a British TV series based on W.J. Burleys novels about Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe. ... Coogans Run was a 1995 UK TV series featuring Steve Coogan as a series of odd characters living in the fictional town of Ottle. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Between The Lines was an acclaimed television police drama series created by J.C. Wilsher and produced by World Productions for the BBC. It was first shown on BBC1 between 1992 and 1994, running for three series. ... The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles is a TV series that ran from 1992 to 1996. ... Van der Valk was a UK televison series starring Barry Foster in the title role as a dutch detective. ... Morse (left) as played by John Thaw in the television adaption (with Kevin Whately as Lewis (right)). Detective Chief Inspector Morse is a fictional character, who features in a series of thirteen detective novels by British author Colin Dexter, though he is better known for the 33 episode TV series... Chancer was a British television serial produced by Central Television. ... Casualty is the longest running emergency medical drama series in the world[1], first broadcast in 1986 and transmitted in the UK on BBC One (with repeats on UKTV Gold). ... A Very British Coup is a 1982 novel by Chris Mullin, and a 1988 British television adaptation of the novel, adapted by Alan Plater and starring Ray McAnally. ... A Very Peculiar Practice was a BBC comedy-drama series, first shown in 1986. ... Hannay was a 1988 spin-off from the 1978 film version of John Buchans novel The Thirty-Nine Steps. ... Tenko is a television drama, co-produced by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) and the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). ...

Film Credits

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is the third episode of the Star Wars film series (but the sixth film to be produced), to be released on Thursday, May 19, 2005. ... Johnny English (2003) is a comic film parodying the James Bond secret agent genre, starring Rowan Atkinson as the incompetent British spy of the title, with John Malkovich, Natalie Imbruglia and Ben Miller. ... Blow Dry is a film released in 2001 (the release date in US cinemas was 7 March 2001, the release date in the UK was 30 March 2001 and other countries released the film in a time span between May 2001 and May 2002). ... Titanic Town is a 1998 film. ... Dame Judi Dench as the widowed Queen Victoria in Mrs. ... Jane Austens novel Sense and Sensibility (1811) was adapted into a 1995 film by Emma Thompson, for which she received general acclaim as well as a 1996 Academy Award. ... Scandal (1989) is a British drama film, a fictionalised account of the Profumo affair. ... Category: ...

Star Wars Trivia

Davies was not available to shoot his scenes as Sio Bibble in Italy for Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, so when George Lucas filmed the factory scenes in England, he spent a day with him on bluescreen filming his shots, and then put them together to make him look like he was there in the Naboo palace with all the other actors. Sio Bibble is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe, created specifically for the prequel trilogy, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. ... Film poster for Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002) is the fifth Star Wars science fiction movie released and the second part of the prequel trilogy which began with Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. ... George Walton Lucas, Jr. ... The bluescreen setup. ... Naboo is a fictitious planet in the fictional Star Wars universe with a mostly green terrain and which is the homeworld of two societies: the Gungans who dwell in underwater cities and the humans who live in colonies on the surface. ...


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S W A D - Davies, Oliver Ford (1222 words)
Oliver Ford Davies (nee Oliver Robert Ford Davies) was born on August 12, 1939.
Ford Davies spent six more years at Oxford after graduating to work on his Dphil (Doctorate of philosophy - Dr. Ford Davies) on the wealth and influence of the English aristocracy (1688 - 1714).
Ford Davies acted with the RSC for ten years (1965- 1975) and was in twenty-seven productions during that time.
Star Wars: Biography | Oliver Ford Davies (165 words)
Olivier Award-winning actor Oliver Ford Davies has been working in theatre, film, and television for the last 30 years.
Ford Davis's film credits include Emma Thompson's award-winning Sense and Sensibility directed by Ang Lee, Mrs Dalloway directed by Marleen Gorris, Scandal directed by Michael Caton-Jones, Defense of the Realm directed by David Drury, and Paper Mask directed by Christopher Morahan.
His television credits are numerous and include Pie in the Sky, The Absence of War, Kavanagh QC, Between the Lines, Inspector Morse, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, A Royal Scandal and Wycliffe.
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