Actor
Nigel Davenport
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. ...

Known For
Acting
2024 -- Evolutions: The Making of Phase IV | Self (archive footage)
2001 -- David Copperfield | Dan Peggotty
2000 -- The Mumbo Jumbo | Major cowpat
2000 -- Longitude | Sir Charles Pelham
1998 -- El Coyote: Don César de Echagüe | Don César de Echagüe, padre
1998 -- La vuelta del Coyote | César de Echagüe
1998 -- Mosley | Lord Rothermere
1997 -- Hotel Shanghai | Butler
1997 -- The Opium War |
1996 -- The Treasure Seekers | Lord Blackstock
1996 -- The Circus Connection | Stadnicki
1992 -- The Cutter |
1988 -- Without a Clue | Lord Smithwick
1986 -- Caravaggio | Giustiniani
1984 -- The Biko Inquest | Colonel Goosen
1984 -- A Christmas Carol | Silas Scrooge
1984 -- An Inspector Calls | Arthur Birling
1984 -- Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes | Major Jack Downing
1983 -- Strata | Victor
1981 -- A Midsummer Night's Dream | Theseus
1981 -- The Uppercrust | Pigel
1981 -- Chariots of Fire | Lord Birkenhead
1981 -- Nighthawks | Peter Hartman
1980 -- Cry of the Innocent | Gray Harrison Hunt
1980 -- The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd | Colonel George Grenfell
1979 -- The London Connection | Arthur Minton
1979 -- Zulu Dawn | Col. Hamilton-Brown
1977 -- The Island of Dr. Moreau | Montgomery
1977 -- Stand up, Virgin Soldiers | Driscoll
1976 -- Black Trash | Lt. Ben Deel
1975 -- The Apple Cart | King Magnus
1974 -- The Regent's Wife | Álvaro Mesía
1974 -- South Riding |
1974 -- Phase IV | Dr. Ernest D. Hubbs
1974 -- Dracula | Van Helsing
1973 -- The Picture of Dorian Gray | Sir Harry Wotton
1973 -- Charley-One-Eye | The Bounty Hunter
1972 -- The Assassination | CIA Official
1972 -- Living Free | George Adamson
1971 -- Mary, Queen of Scots | Lord Bothwell
1971 -- Villain | Bob Matthews
1971 -- The Last Valley | Gruber
1970 -- The Mind of Mr. Soames | Dr. Maitland
1970 -- No Blade of Grass | John Custance
1969 -- The Virgin Soldiers | Sgt Driscoll
1969 -- The Royal Hunt of the Sun | De Soto
1969 -- Sinful Davey | Wachtmeister Richardson
1969 -- Play Dirty | Capt. Cyril Leech
1968 -- The Strange Affair |
1968 -- Sebastian | Gen. Phillips
1968 -- The News-Benders | Robert Larkin
1967 -- Dial M for Murder | Lesgate
1966 -- A Man for All Seasons | The Duke of Norfolk
1966 -- Shotgun | Joshua
1966 -- Where the Spies Are | Parkington
1965 -- Life at the Top | Mottram
1965 -- Sands of the Kalahari | Sturdevan
1965 -- A High Wind in Jamaica | Mr. Thornton
1964 -- The Bone Yard | Inspector Potter
1964 -- The Third Secret | Lew Harding
1964 -- The Verdict | Larry Mason
1963 -- Ladies Who Do | Mr. Strang
1963 -- In the Cool of the Day | Leonard Groves
1963 -- Bitter Harvest | Police Inspector
1963 -- Return to Sender | Dino Steffano
1962 -- Lunch Hour | Personnel Manager
1960 -- The Entertainer | Theatre Manager (uncredited)
1960 -- Peeping Tom | Det. Sgt. Miller (uncredited)
1959 -- Look Back in Anger | 1st Commercial Traveller
1955 -- Othello | Lodovico
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