Stringer Davis

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1899-06-04 (74 years old)

Deathday

1973-08-29

Place of Birth

Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK

Stringer Davis

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ​Stringer Davis (4 June 1899 – 29 August 1973) was an English character actor. Davis was born James Buckley Stringer Davis in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England. He was bisexual and married fellow performer Margaret Rutherford in 1945. The marriage was happy and they stayed together until her death in 1972. He was most famous for his supporting roles in various films and television series, where he often played a gentle old Englishman character. He appeared alongside his wife in a number of films, including four adaptations of Agatha Christie novels featuring Rutherford as Miss Marple. Description above fr...

Acting

1964

Murder Most Foul

as Jim Stringer

1964

Murder Ahoy

as Jim Stringer

1963

Murder at the Gallop

as Jim Stringer

1961

Murder She Said

as Jim Stringer

1965

The Alphabet Murders

as Mr. Stringer (uncredited)

1963

The V.I.P.s

as Hotel Waiter

1959

1956

1953

Innocents in Paris

as Arbuthnot

1954

Aunt Clara

as Doctor

1952

Curtain Up

as Vicar

1954

Mad About Men

as The Vicar (uncredited)

1948

Miranda

as Museum Attendant

1953

The Runaway Bus

as 2nd Transport Officer

1963

The Mouse on the Moon

as 1st Councillor (uncredited)

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