Nigel Davenport
Born: 1928-05-23 in Shelford, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Died: 2013-10-25
Known For: Acting
Biography
Arthur Nigel Davenport (23 May 1928 – 25 October 2013) was an English stage, television and film actor, best known as the Duke of Norfolk and Lord Birkenhead in the Academy Award-winning films A Man for All Seasons and Chariots of Fire, respectively.
Filmography
2024
- Evolutions: The Making of Phase IV as Self (archive footage)
2001
- David Copperfield as Daniel Peggotty
2000
- Longitude as Sir Charles Pelham
- The Mumbo Jumbo as Major cowpat
- Longitude as Sir Charles Pelham
1998
- La vuelta del Coyote as César de Echagüe
- Mosley as Lord Rothermere
- Mosley as Lord Rothermere
- El Coyote: Don César de Echagüe as Don César de Echagüe, padre
1997
- Midsomer Murders as William Smithers
- Hotel Shanghai as Butler
- The Opium War
1996
- The Treasure Seekers as Lord Blackstock
- The Circus Connection as Stadnicki
1993
- The Detectives as Sir Arthur Andrews
1992
1990
- Keeping Up Appearances as The Commodore
- The Upper Hand as Mr. Douglas Hamilton
1988
- Without a Clue as Lord Smithwick
1986
- Caravaggio as Giustiniani
- Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy as Ismay
- Ladies in Charge
- The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams as Supt. Hannam
1985
- Howards' Way as Sir Edward Frere
1984
- A Christmas Carol as Silas Scrooge
- Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes as Major Jack Downing
- The Biko Inquest as Colonel Goosen
- An Inspector Calls as Arthur Birling
1983
- Strata as Victor
1982
- An Inspector Calls as Arthur Birling
- Bird of Prey as Charles Bridgnorth
- Don't Rock The Boat
1981
- Nighthawks as Peter Hartman
- Chariots of Fire as Lord Birkenhead
- Masada as Senator Mucianus
- The Uppercrust as Pigel
- A Midsummer Night's Dream as Theseus
1980
- Cry of the Innocent as Gray Harrison Hunt
- The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd as Colonel George Grenfell
1979
- Minder as Ray
- Prince Regent as King George III
- Zulu Dawn as Col. Hamilton-Brown
- The London Connection as Arthur Minton
1977
- The Island of Dr. Moreau as Montgomery
- Stand up, Virgin Soldiers as Driscoll
- Romance as Prince Zouroff
1976
- Black Trash as Lt. Ben Deel
1975
- The Apple Cart as King Magnus
- Oil Strike North
1974
- Phase IV as Dr. Ernest D. Hubbs
- Dracula as Van Helsing
- South Riding
- The Regent's Wife as Álvaro Mesía
- South Riding as Robert Carne
1973
- Charley One-Eye as The Bounty Hunter
- The Picture of Dorian Gray as Sir Harry Wotton
1972
- The Assassination as CIA Official
- Living Free as George Adamson
- The Edwardians as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Shirley's World
1971
- Villain as Bob Matthews
- Mary, Queen of Scots as Lord Bothwell
- The Last Valley as Gruber
1970
- The Mind of Mr. Soames as Dr. Maitland
- No Blade of Grass as John Custance
1969
- Sinful Davey as Richardson
- Play Dirty as Capt. Cyril Leech
- The Virgin Soldiers as Sgt Driscoll
- The Royal Hunt of the Sun as De Soto
1968
- The Name of the Game as David Windom
- Sebastian as Gen. Phillips
- The Strange Affair
- The News-Benders as Robert Larkin
1967
- Dial M for Murder as Lesgate
1966
- Shotgun as Joshua
- A Man for All Seasons as The Duke of Norfolk
- Where the Spies Are as Parkington
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as King Magnus
- A High Wind in Jamaica as Mr. Thornton
- Sands of the Kalahari as Sturdevan
- Life at the Top as Mottram
1964
- Theatre 625 as Donkin
- The Verdict as Larry Mason
- The Third Secret as Lew Harding
- The Bone Yard as Inspector Potter
1963
- Bitter Harvest as Police Inspector
- Return to Sender as Dino Steffano
- In the Cool of the Day as Leonard Groves
- Ladies Who Do as Mr. Strang
1962
- The Saint as Aldo Petri
- Lunch Hour as Personnel Manager
- Man of the World as Grabowsky
1961
- The Avengers as Lord Barnes
- Sir Francis Drake as Don Miguel de Cervantes
1960
- The Entertainer as Theatre Manager (uncredited)
- Peeping Tom as Det. Sgt. Miller (uncredited)
1959
- Look Back in Anger as 1st Commercial Traveller
- Desert Mice as Army Officer (uncredited)
1955
- The Adventures of Robin Hood as Loud Lawrence
- Othello as Lodovico
1950
- Sunday Night Theatre as Jackson