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Nigel Davenport

Highest Rated: 100% Play Dirty (1969)

Lowest Rated: 20% Life at the Top (1965)

Birthday: May 23, 1928

Birthplace: Shelford, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

Veteran British character actor who, by his own estimate, has played "two kings, two dukes, a lot of lords and the odd private soldier." Best known as the Duke of Norfolk opposite Paul Scofield's Sir Thomas More in "A Man for All Seasons" (1966) and the explorer Hernando De Soto in "The Royal Hunt of the Sun" (1969). Davenport began his film career in the 1950s in "Look Back in Anger" (1959) and continued to work through the 1980s in such films as "Chariots of Fire" (1981) and "Carravagio" (1986).

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Highest rated movies

100% 62% Play Dirty
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95% 85% Peeping Tom
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89% 87% A Man for All Seasons
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84% 80% Chariots of Fire
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79% 60% Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
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72% 55% Nighthawks
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67% 49% Villain
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67% 55% Mary, Queen of Scots
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62% 72% Without a Clue
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Nigel Davenport

Nigel Davenport CHARLEY ONE-EYE, Nigel Davenport, 1973 NO BLADE OF GRASS, from left: Jean Wallace, Nigel Davenport, 1970 A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, Nigel Davenport, 1966, amfas1966-fsct03, Photo by: (amfas1966-fsct03) PLAY DIRTY, Nigel Davenport, 1968 SINFUL DAVEY, Nigel Davenport, 1969 SINFUL DAVEY, John Hurt, Nigel Davenport, Robert Morley, 1969 PLAY DIRTY, Michael Caine, Nigel Davenport, 1968 LIVING FREE, Nigel Davenport, 1972 PLAY DIRTY, Nigel Davenport, 1968 View more photos

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Mumbo Jumbo Major Cowpat (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet La vuelta de El Coyote Félix de Echagüe (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Opium War Unknown (Character) - 1997
No Score Yet 29% Treasure Seekers Lord Blackstock (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hotel Shanghai Butler (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Shanghai 1937 Butler (Character) - 1996
62% 72% Without a Clue Lord Smithwick (Character) $7.3M 1988
82% 68% Caravaggio Giustiniani (Character) $3.2K 1986
No Score Yet 80% Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy Ismay (Character) - 1986
79% 60% Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes Major Jack Downing (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet 75% A Christmas Carol Silas Scrooge (Character) - 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Midsummer Night's Dream Theseus (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet 94% Masada Unknown (Character) - 1981
84% 80% Chariots of Fire Lord Birkenhead (Character) - 1981
72% 55% Nighthawks Peter Hartman (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd Col. George Grenfell (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet 22% Cry of the Innocent Gray Harrison Hunt (Character) - 1980
50% 61% Zulu Dawn Col. Hamilton-Brown (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Omega Connection Arthur Minton (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet Death of a Snowman Lt. Ben Deel (Character) - 1978
54% 39% The Island of Dr. Moreau Montgomery (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers Sgt. Driscoll (Character) - 1977
60% 43% Dracula Van Helsing (Character) - 1974
50% 55% Phase IV Dr. Ernest D. Hubbs (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet 45% The Picture of Dorian Gray Sir Harry Wotton (Character) - 1973
No Score Yet 20% Charley One-Eye The Bounty Hunter (Character) - 1973
No Score Yet 54% Living Free George Adamson (Character) - 1972
67% 55% Mary, Queen of Scots Lord Bothwell (Character) - 1971
67% 49% Villain Bob Matthews (Character) - 1971
29% 42% No Blade of Grass John Custance (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet 40% The Mind of Mr. Soames Dr. Maitland (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet 78% The Last Valley Gruber (Character) - 1970
50% 50% The Royal Hunt of the Sun Hernando de Soto (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet 43% The Virgin Soldiers Sgt. Driscoll (Character) - 1969
100% 62% Play Dirty Capt. Cyril Leech (Character) - 1969
43% 29% Sinful Davey Richardson (Character) - 1968
29% 55% Sebastian Gen. Phillips (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Strange Affair Defense Counsel (Character) - 1968
89% 87% A Man for All Seasons The Duke of Norfolk (Character) - 1966
No Score Yet 52% A High Wind in Jamaica Mr. Thornton (Character) - 1965
No Score Yet 62% Sands of the Kalahari Sturdevan (Character) - 1965
20% 80% Life at the Top Mottram (Character) - 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Verdict Larry Mason (Character) - 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ladies Who Do Mr. Strang (Character) - 1963
No Score Yet 33% In the Cool of the Day Leonard Groves (Character) - 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet Return to Sender Dino Steffano (Character) - 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lunch Hour Personnel manager (Character) - 1962
95% 85% Peeping Tom Det. Sgt. Miller (uncredited) (Character) $23.0K 1960
No Score Yet No Score Yet Desert Mice Army Officer (Character) - 1959

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No Score Yet 86% Midsomer Murders William Smithers (Character) 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Detectives Unknown (Character) 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet Prince Regent King George III (Character) 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet Name of the Game Unknown (Guest Star) 1969
No Score Yet 87% The Avengers Unknown (Guest Star) 1966 1968
No Score Yet No Score Yet El Santo Charles Voyson (Guest Star) 1962 1965