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      Nigel Davenport

      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).

      Highest rated movies

      Play Dirty
      Peeping Tom
      A Man for All Seasons
      Chariots of Fire
      Caravaggio
      Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
      Nighthawks
      Mary, Queen of Scots

      Photos

      NO BLADE OF GRASS, from left: Jean Wallace, Nigel Davenport, 1970 SINFUL DAVEY, Nigel Davenport, 1969 PLAY DIRTY, Nigel Davenport, 1968 A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, Nigel Davenport, 1966, amfas1966-fsct03, Photo by: (amfas1966-fsct03) CHARLEY ONE-EYE, Nigel Davenport, 1973 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 PHASE IV, Michael Murphy, Lynne Frederick, Nigel Davenport, 1974. PLAY DIRTY, Nigel Davenport, Michael Caine, 1968 PHASE IV, Nigel Davenport (left), Robert Henderson (on ground), Michael Murphy (kneeling), 1974 THE ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN, Nigel Davenport, Robert Shaw, 1969 PHASE IV, Nigel Davenport, Michael Murphy, observe victim, Alan Gifford, 1974. LIVING FREE, Susan Hampshire, Nigel Davenport, 1972 PLAY DIRTY, from left: Nigel Davenport, Michael Caine, 1968 SEBASTIAN, Dirk Bogarde (rear), Nigel Davenport, 1968 MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, from left: Vanessa Redgrave, Nigel Davenport, 1971 PLAY DIRTY, Michael Caine (center), Nigel Davenport (right), 1968 PHASE IV, Nigel Davenport, attacked by a plague of mutant ants, 1974.
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      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
      73% 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 93% Masada Unknown (Character) - 1981
      83% 80% Chariots of Fire Lord Birkenhead (Character) - 1981
      71% 55% Nighthawks Peter Hartman (Character) - 1981
      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% 40% The Island of Dr. Moreau Montgomery (Character) - 1977
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers Sgt. Driscoll (Character) - 1977
      60% 42% Dracula Van Helsing (Character) - 1974
      53% 55% Phase IV Dr. Ernest D. Hubbs (Character) - 1974
      No Score Yet 44% 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
      No Score Yet No Score Yet The Strange Affair Defense Counsel (Character) - 1968
      29% 55% Sebastian Gen. Phillips (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 40% 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

      TV

      Credit
      No Score Yet 88% Midsomer Murders William Smithers (Guest Star) 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 86% The Avengers Unknown (Guest Star) 1966 1968
      No Score Yet No Score Yet El Santo Charles Voyson (Guest Star) 1962 1965