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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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82% 68% Caravaggio Watchlist
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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Filmography

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The Mumbo Jumbo 2000 Major Cowpat Actor La vuelta de El Coyote 1998 Félix de Echagüe Actor The Opium War 1997 Actor Treasure Seekers 29% 1996 Lord Blackstock Actor Hotel Shanghai 1996 Butler Actor Shanghai 1937 1996 Butler Actor Without a Clue 62% 72% 1988 Lord Smithwick Actor Caravaggio 82% 68% 1986 Giustiniani Actor Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy 80% 1986 Ismay Actor Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 79% 60% 1984 Major Jack Downing Actor A Christmas Carol 75% 1984 Silas Scrooge Actor A Midsummer Night's Dream 1981 Theseus Actor Masada 94% 1981 Actor Chariots of Fire 84% 80% 1981 Lord Birkenhead Actor Nighthawks 72% 55% 1981 Peter Hartman Actor The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd 1980 Col. George Grenfell Actor Cry of the Innocent 22% 1980 Gray Harrison Hunt Actor Zulu Dawn 50% 61% 1979 Col. Hamilton-Brown Actor The Omega Connection 1979 Arthur Minton Actor Death of a Snowman 1978 Lt. Ben Deel Actor The Island of Dr. Moreau 54% 39% 1977 Montgomery Actor Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers 1977 Sgt. Driscoll Actor Dracula 60% 43% 1974 Van Helsing Actor Phase IV 50% 55% 1974 Dr. Ernest D. Hubbs Actor The Picture of Dorian Gray 45% 1973 Sir Harry Wotton Actor
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